My Writing Portfolio

As a health and science journalist, I cover health, science, medicine, yoga and other topics for online and print publications. Below is a partial list of bylined articles arranged by date.

Writing Portfolio

2014 Health & Science Writing

12/24/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Color of Perception

12/20/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Cancer Through the Lens of Cosmology

12/17/2014 – Healthline – Flying an Airplane for an Hour Exposes Pilots to as Much Radiation as a Tanning Bed

12/13/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Nāgārjuna and the Greek Philosophers

12/11/2014 – Healthline – Meet the New Face of Homelessness: Children and Teens

12/5/2014 – Healthline – To Statin or Not to Statin: That’s the Question Doctors Can’t Seem to Answer

12/1/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Cause and Effect: Convenient Storytelling

12/1/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Stuart Hameroff: Quantum Information and the Brain

12/1/2014 – Healthline – Diabetes Ages the Brain 5 Years Faster than Normal

11/30/2014 – Healthline – Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid Not Miracle Brain-Boosters

11/28/2014 – Healthline – Take a Run After Thanksgiving Dinner — It’ll Keep You Young

11/24/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Sam Harris: Waking Up to Your Own Spirituality

11/23/2014 – Healthline – If Home Brain Training Apps Don’t Work, What Does?

11/16/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Psychology of Your Future Self

11/10/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Caricature of Consciousness

11/7/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences, Pim van Lommel

11/5/2014 – Healthline – Adorable Papillon Helps Young Boy Stay Step Ahead of Epilepsy

10/20/2014 – Healthline – Kids Who Drink Milk Alternatives Twice as Likely to Be Vitamin D Deficient

10/13/2014 – Healthline – Broccoli Compound Eases Autism Symptoms by Mimicking a Child’s Fever

10/9/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Space-Time Fabric: Are We Living in a 2-D Hologram?

10/8/2014 – Healthline – High-Tech Prosthetic Arms Give Amputees Dexterity and a Sense of Touch

10/3/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Realization of Zen Master Kyogen

10/3/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Holographic Principle and the Shadows That Bind

9/29/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Silence Between Mind and Liberation

9/26/2014 – Healthline – Drugmaker Shire Fined $56.5 Million for Claiming Adderall Can ‘Normalize’ Kids with ADHD

9/25/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Edward Frenkel: Love and Math

9/22/2014 – Healthline – Brainwave Test Could Identify Kids with Autism Early and Accurately

9/15/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Is Beauty in the Eye of the Mathematical Beholder?

9/15/2014 – Healthline – Teens Use Marijuana to Manage Negative Moods

9/9/2014 – Healthline – Intervention at 6 Months Old Erases Autism Symptoms by Age 3

9/5/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The ‘Big’ Questions in Physics Today

9/2/2014 – Healthline – The Verdict Is In: Low-Carb Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet for Cutting Heart Disease Risk

9/1/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Historic Einstein-Tagore Meeting: Is Truth Independent of Us?

8/29/2014 – Healthline – Doctors Grow New Thymus Inside a Live Animal from Lab-Made Cells

8/26/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

8/22/2014 – Healthline – Children with Autism May Have Too Many Brain Connections

8/20/2014 – Healthline – Treating Stomach Cancer — with Botox

8/15/2014 – Healthline – Did Marijuana Smoking Give These Young Men Heart Attacks?

8/13/2014 – Healthline – Fracking Fluid Contains at Least 8 Highly Toxic Chemicals, Many Unknowns

8/13/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Measuring Quantum Cats and Their Smiles

8/11/2014 – Healthline – 1 in 6 Americans with Lupus Cycle In and Out of Hospitals

8/8/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

8/8/2014 – Science & Nonduality – The Mystery of Metamorphosis

8/7/2014 – Science & Nonduality – Perhaps our Fears are not Ours?

7/28/2014 – Healthline – For Pain Patients, the Physical and Emotional Are Intertwined

7/15/2014 – Healthline – Stroke Cases in the US Falling, Stroke Survival Increasing

7/3/2014 – Healthline – Study: People Would Rather Give Themselves Electric Shocks Than Be Alone with Their Thoughts

6/29/2014 – Healthline – Son Raises Money for Ovarian Cancer Research with Month-Long Wilderness Walk

6/22/2014 – Healthline – What Would a Low-Salt World Look (and Taste) Like?

6/16/2014 – Healthline – Stopping Immunosuppressants Without a Relapse May Be Possible for Some Lupus Patients

6/14/2014 – Healthline – Are Frequent Fist Fights the Reason Men Evolved to Look the Way They Do?

6/10/2014 – Healthline – Gene Variant May Greatly Increase the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Latinos

6/7/2014 – Healthline – 4 Ways to Help Your Partner Live Healthier—Without Starting a Fight

6/1/2014 – The Health Journal – Feeling Adventurous? A Beginner’s Guide to Adventure Racing

5/31/2014 – Healthline – 6 Expert Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep

5/21/2014 – Healthline – How Will Health Insurance Price Transparency Affect You?

5/15/2014 – Healthline – Stem Cells Made From Skin Safely Grow New Bone in Monkeys for the First Time

5/7/2014 – Healthline – New Device Helps Parents of Children with Diabetes Sleep Easier

5/4/2014 – Healthline – When Is Teen Misbehavior a Sign of a Serious Problem?

5/1/2014 – The Health Journal – 7 Healthy Benefits of Bicycling | print (pdf)

5/1/2014 – The Health Journal – 5 Yoga Poses to Strengthen Your Core | print (pdf)

4/28/2014 – Healthline – High Doses of Antidepressants May Raise the Risk of Self-Harm for Kids and Young Adults

4/25/2014 – Healthline – National Drug Take-Back Day Helps Us Safely Dispose of Unused Medication

4/24/2014 – Healthline – Why Men Won’t Be Going Extinct Any Time Soon

4/21/2014 – Healthline – Is ‘Sluggish Cognitive Tempo’ a New Disorder or an Extension of ADHD?

4/16/2014 – Healthline – Apathy in Seniors Could Be a Sign of a Shrinking Brain, Says New Study

4/10/2014 – Healthline – U.S. Doctors’ Group Tackles Gun Deaths, Calling Them a ‘Public Health Threat’

4/7/2014 – Healthline – Low-Cost Foods That Lower Heart Disease Risk (and Are Missing from Many American Diets)

4/1/2014 – The Health Journal – Modeling a Food Conscious Lifestyle for Children to Follow | print (pdf)

4/1/2014 – Healthline – Strong, Self-Healing Muscle Grown in the Laboratory

3/25/2014 – Healthline Reference Library – Overhydration

3/24/2014 – Healthline – Stress and Excess Weight Could Make Conceiving More Difficult

3/19/2014 – Healthline – Most American Women Don’t Know the Signs of Stroke

3/17/2014 – Healthline – How Parents Unknowingly Promote Obesity During Kids’ Infancy

3/13/2014 – Healthline Reference Library – Preventing Erectile Dysfunction

3/12/2014 – Healthline – Study Reveals Specific Gut Bacteria Involved in Crohn’s Disease

3/4/2014 – Healthline – A Diet of Animal Protein Could Be as Harmful as Smoking

3/1/2014 – The Health Journal – Farm Vs. Pharmacy: The Search for a Legacy of Healing | print (pdf)

3/1/2014 – The Health Journal – Sneak Peek: 2014 Running Shoes | print (pdf)

2/28/2014 – Healthline Reference Library – Mineral Deficiency

2/25/2014 – Healthline – New Study Strengthens Connection Between Diet, Diabetes, and Dementia

2/20/2014 – Healthline – Spinning Fishing Line and Thread into Super-Powerful Artificial Muscles

2/17/2014 – Healthline – Training Gives Baseball Players Superhuman Vision

2/15/2014 – Healthline – Do Chickens Hold the Key to a Cure for Hearing Loss? | Fox News

2/11/2014 – Healthline – Childhood Obesity: Can Schools Make Our Kids Healthier?

2/18/2014 – Healthline Reference Library – Exercise Plans for Seniors

2/3/2014 – Healthline – The Hidden Benefit of ACE: Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention

2/3/2014 – The Health Journal – Grooming an Awesome Beard | print (pdf)

1/30/2014 – Healthline – Nearly 60 Percent of College Students Are ‘Food Insecure’

1/20/2014 – Healthline – New Studies Point to Easy Ways to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk

1/14/2014 – Healthline – Finding Cancer Drugs in Unlikely Places

1/14/2014 – Healthline – Cancer Deaths Fall by 20 Percent in 20 Years, 1.3 Million Lives Saved

1/6/2014 – Healthline – Marijuana Legalization: The Experts Weigh In

1/3/2014 – Healthline – 4 Obamacare Changes You Might Have Missed

1/1/2014 – The Health Journal – Electronic Cigarettes: Clouded in Controversy | print (pdf)