Nature Network Boston: June 2010-present: Blogger and “hub leader”
Boston Health News blog. Launched Feb. 2009.
Radio: Overdose prevention: Still using, but still alive. Massachusetts and other states are trying a new approach to heroin addiction that aims at keeping addicts alive until they can get sober. The Health Show, WAMC, Albany, New York. 2010. Click for mp3 or via PRX page
Radio: On the way to wired medicine: A Massachusetts town struggles to create a health information network. Radio report, WBUR, Boston Dec 27, 2009 and WAMC, Albany, New York.
Nature Network Boston: Debate mounts over proposed biotech tax breaks. Critics of Gov. Patrick’s $1 billion life sciences bill question whether the drug development industry in Massachusetts needs financial help from the state. Jan 28, 2008.
The Boston Globe: Lightman’s dream: MIT physicist and author empowers young Cambodian women by building a dormitory for them in Phnom Penh. November 19, 2007.
Nature Network Boston: Campus donors ask for more: The recent controversy surrounding MIT neuroscience raises questions about how much power philanthropists have over universities. Nov 9, 2006.
Nature Medicine: Paging all doctors – A story about the obstacles facing physicians interested in research .June 2007.
Fast Company: Not invented here — Drug companies now look to outside labs for new drugs. April 2007.
The Washington Post: Divided Loyalties? Nonprofit Health Advocacy Groups Like to Portray Themselves as Patients’ Allies. Can They Serve Corporate Benefactors at the Same Time? Lead story, “Health” section. January 7, 2006.
Nature Medicine: A profile of Dr. Susan Hockfield, the first biomedical scientist to become president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February, 2005.
Award Winners
Healing traditions: Americans have only recently begun to experiment with body work, herbs, acupuncture, and other forms of Oriental medicine. Cambodians have been doing it forever. The Boston Phoenix, June 21, 2001.
To be set free: A story of a young woman’s wait for a lung transplant. The News & Observer, November 6, 1994. First prize, North Carolina Press Association awards, 1994.
2003-2004
October 19, 2004 , The Washington Post: Split Decision, A New Effort Aims to Sway Breast Cancer Patients to Opt for Conservative Rather Than Radical Surgery. Lead story, Health section.
Nature Medicine and Nature Network Boston : News about for scientists about research, funding and policy.
October 3, 2004, The Boston Globe: At the autograph hole, Red Sox fans create their own lineup. A short feature from Fenway Park.
August 1, 2004, The Boston Globe: New customer or old, this Pug’s for you: A short feature about a neighborhood bar.
December 1, 2003, Los Angeles Times: When young heart patients become adults. Doctors are taking note of the unique needs of people whose defects started in childhood.
November 2003, Nature Medicine: The color of money: As the line between academia and industry blurs, conflict-of-interest issues have gone from black and white to all shades in between.
April 1, 2003, The Washington Post: EMS and heart attacks: Can emergency angioplasty save more lives?
2001 and 2002
All but Forgotten : Once the center of a national debate, women who say silicone breast implants made them sick now find themselves virtually ignored.From the Los Angeles Times, Lead story, Health section. Monday, October 1, 2001
Lung cancer gender gap : Scientists are trying to pinpoint why women seem to be more likely than men to contract lung cancer. Los Angeles Times , March 26, 2001. Lung cancerscreening : hope or hype? A story about the pros and cons of a new test that promises early detection of lung cancer. The Boston Globe, July 11, 2000. This work was supported by a grant from The Fund for Investigative Journalism.
The war against the sea : No one has been able to figure out how to protect beachfront property without destroying beaches.The Boston Globe, lead story Health/Science page, June 5, 2001.
A cure for complacency : Partners in Health convinced the world that it is wrong to let poor people die of tuberculosis. Now they want to do the same thing for AIDS. The Boston Phoenix, March 2, 2001
Specialists differ on value of tests for bone density : A story from The Boston Globe about bone scans, osteoporosis and hip fractures. April 25, 2000
Science for Sale : A Harvard researcher could profit from a product he “independently” reviewed for the National Institutes of Health. The scientific community, dependent on corporate money, has no clear way to handle such conflicts. The Boston Phoenix, April 29, 1999.
From Nature Medicine
Bristol-Meyers Squibb and the National Institutes of Health go to battle over AIDS drug royalties . December 2000
More stories from Nature Medicine ‘s news page: June 2001 , May 2001 , February 2001 , January 2001 .
1998-2000
Blood Feud : Doctors are using umbilical cord blood as a bone marrow substitute in patients needing stem cell transplants. But some say companies offering to store the blood for new parents oversell the need for their services. From The Boston Globe, August 23, 1999
Sidebar : Science and commerce clash over control of blood.
Health reform lives on in Massachusetts . Read about it in The Boston Phoenix, December 1998, February 1999, November 1999 and August 2000
Children of the Revolution : Two weeks in the life of an alternative newspaper at Boston University (and a break from the health care beat.) The Boston Phoenix , December 9,1999.
A day at the neighborhood infant cognition lab , or how my son did his part for the science of babyhood. The Boston Globe, January 10, 1999.
A lab of one’s own: A profile of the feminist scientists at The Silent Spring Institute, The Boston Phoenix, December 10, 1998.
More from The News & Observer
Doctors make fatal mistakes sometimes, but hospitals and insurance companies do their best to make sure no one finds out about them. Often, family members never learn the true details of a loved one’s death. A computer-assisted investigative report on “medical misadventures” from The News & Observer, July 16, 1995.
The doctor and his implants: Can doctors with financial ties to medical products put a patient’s best interests ahead of their own? Or do potential payoffs cloud their medical judgment? The News & Observer, March 31 1994.
Digging for the roots of Haw River disease : A devoted doctor traces a disabling brain disease to a single family. The News & Observer, October 2, 1994.
Dogs, blood and the race to gene therapy : how one scientist closed in on the elusive goal. The News & Observer, June 16, 1997.
From the Utne Reader ‘s New Planet Section
Good Vibrations ? Two new forms of natural healing get mixed reviews. January/February 2001
High Immunity : New vaccines may take the fun out of drugs. Should we inoculate kids
to prevent partying? November/December 2000
Help Wanted: The people who take care of our kids and parents are underpaid and overworked. We can do better than that. July/August 2000
Honey I Shrunk the Doctor: Nanotechnology comes to medicine, May/June 2000
Pork Futures: The problems and perils of xenotransplantation, Jan./Feb. 2000.
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