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.
2016 Health and Science Writing
12/20/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Can Gut Bacteria Control Your Mood?
12/19/2016 – Healthline – Illegal Drugs Are Now Used as Medicine
12/15/2016 – Healthline – Kidney Donations Should Be Accepted From Older Patients
12/13/2016 – Healthline – Concerns Over Antibiotic Resistant Gene Found on Pig Farm
12/8/2016 – Healthline – Too ‘Thin?’ Too ‘Heavy?’ You Might Get Trolled
12/2/2016 – Healthline – Why Needle Exchange Programs Are Important
11/30/2016 – Healthline – Are Food Allergies Exaggerated?
11/29/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Complexity Theory and the Nature of Consciousness
11/28/2016 – Healthline – How Can Pediatricians Help a Family Going Through Divorce?
11/22/2016 – Healthline – Transgender People Rushing to Change Gender on IDs Before Trump Inauguration
11/18/2016 – Healthline – Early Detection Key to Improving Outcomes of Endometrial Cancer
11/16/2016 – Healthline – Celebrex Safer for Heart Patients Than Previously Thought
11/14/2016 – Healthline – Depression Rising in Teens, Especially Young Girls
11/11/2016 – Healthline – Year You Were Born Can Determine Immunity to Flu Strains
11/8/2016 – Healthline – For People with HIV, Smoking Now More Dangerous Than the Disease
11/3/2016 – Healthline – Patients Willing to Accept Donated Kidneys Infected with Hepatitis C
11/1/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Living Spontaneously With Wu-Wei
11/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Five Remarkable HIV Advancements Made This Year
10/31/2016 – Healthline – Will ‘Born Twice’ Surgery Ever Become Common?
10/25/2016 – Science & Nonduality – The Neurobiology of Love
10/24/2016 – Healthline – How Will a Plan to Map Every Cell in the Human Body Help Researchers?
10/18/2016 – Healthline – Can a Virus Steal Animal DNA?
10/12/2016 – Healthline – Ridiculous Hospital Charges: Hold Your Baby, Pay a Fee
10/5/2016 – Healthline – Flawed Antibodies Might Be Producing Faulty Research Results | Huffington Post
10/3/2016 – Healthline – Concerns Over Amped-up, Dangerous Drugs on Streets | Huffington Post
9/27/2016 – Healthline – How Much Will Chan Zuckerberg $3 Billion Initiative Help?
9/21/2016 – Healthline – Canadian Doctors Can Now Prescribe Heroin | Huffington Post
9/19/2016 – Healthline – Awake Brain Surgery Isn’t Just on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
9/13/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Why Isn’t Quantum Mechanics Even Weirder?
9/13/2016 – Healthline – Are Head Transplants Possible … and Ethical? | Huffington Post
9/6/2016 – Science & Nonduality – How Epigenetics Mediates Between the Environment and Our Genes
9/2/2016 – Healthline – Why Can’t People Like Anthony Weiner Stop Sexting?
9/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Millions Struggle with Low Health Literacy
8/31/2016 – Healthline – What’s the Future of Face Transplants? | Huffington Post
8/26/2016 – Science and Nonduality – Intelligence Beyond Thought ~ J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm
8/24/2016 – Healthline – Hospital CEO Pay Rises While Many Americans Drown in Medical Debt | Huffington Post
8/17/2016 – Healthline – Cancer Now Leading Cause of Death in Western Europe, but Not U.S.
8/15/2016 – Healthline – Videos Show Kids Sleeping in Unsafe Environments
8/10/2016 – Science and Nonduality – Illusions and the Mind’s Reality
7/19/2016 – Healthline – Where We Die: Less in ERs, More at Home
7/14/2016 – Healthline – Opioid Use May Increase Risks for Older COPD Patients
7/11/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Can Inheritance of Trauma Be Reversed?
7/11/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Paradise for the Insane
7/11/2016 – Healthline – Many Teens Who Wouldn’t Have Smoked Use E-Cigarettes
7/11/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Holding Space
7/6/2016 – Vein Directory – Venous Societies Unify to Present at the July Venous MEDCAC
7/6/2016 – Healthline – Junk Food Ads May Cause Kids to Overeat
7/1/2016 – Healthline – Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Offer Hope but Also Severe Risks
7/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Nudging Employees to Better Health is Good Business
6/24/2016 – Healthline – Why Are We Afraid of Being a Victim of a Mass Shooting? | Huffington Post
6/14/2016 – Healthline – Anti-Obesity Drugs May Help ‘Kick Start’ Weight Loss
6/10/2016 – Healthline – What Could a Synthetic Human Genome Be Used For?
6/7/2016 – The Health Journal – 9 Cabin-Friendly Spots in Virginia
6/7/2016 – Healthline – Obesity Rates up for Women, Teens … But Same for Men
6/6/2016 – Healthline – Does Plain Packaging on Tobacco Products Work?
5/31/2016 – Healthline – The Price of Prescriptions Overwhelms Fixed-Income Seniors
5/20/2016 – Healthline – Teen Athletes Becoming Hooked on Prescription Painkillers
5/19/2016 – Healthline – What Should Be Considered ‘Healthy’ in Foods?
5/12/2016 – Healthline – New Target Found for Potential HIV Vaccine
5/10/2016 – Healthline – Asthma Caused by Dust Mites May Damage Lung Cells
5/6/2016 – Healthline – People Using Anti-Diarrheal Drugs to Help Fight Opioid Addiction
5/3/2016 – Healthline – Flu Vaccines Help Unborn Children as Well as Pregnant Women
4/29/2016 – Healthline – E-Cigarettes Aren’t That Bad, Say Scientists
4/22/2016 – Healthline – Should Children Be Forced to Undergo Cancer Treatment?
4/19/2016 – Healthline – Treating Depression, Anxiety Saves Everyone Money
4/12/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Can Gut Bacteria Shape Our Emotions?
4/11/2016 – Healthline – Should We Believe All These Medical Studies?
4/6/2016 – Healthline – Legal Drugs You Can Buy Online That Are Just as Bad as The Illegal Ones
4/4/2016 – Healthline – Scientists Discover ‘Super’ Immune Cells
4/1/2016 – Healthline – New Medicare Payment Rules for Hip, Knee Replacements Take Effect Today
4/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Getting Back in the Game: Sex After a Heart Attack
3/8/2016 – Healthline – Why Do So Many Doctors Die by Suicide?
3/4/2016 – Healthline – Controversy Over Choosing Sex of Child Using IVF
3/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Yoga Poses for Multiple Sclerosis
3/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Orthorexia
2/25/2016 – Healthline – Can Technology Really Help You Sleep Better?
2/8/2016 – Healthline – Children Breastfed After One Year May Need Extra Vitamin D
2/9/2016 – Healthline – How Can We Fix the Epidemic of Overweight Children?
2/2/2016 – Healthline – Epilepsy Deaths Have Health Officials Worried
2/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Eating Disorders in Men | print (pdf)
1/29/2016 – Healthline – Where the Leading Presidential Candidates Stand on Healthcare
1/26/2016 – Science & Nonduality – Retrocausality: Can the Present Affect the Past?
1/20/2016 – Healthline – Lawsuit Filed by Surrogate Mother Raises New Legal, Moral Issues
1/12/2016 – Healthline – Meditation and Yoga Joining Arithmetic and Reading in U.S. Classrooms
1/3/2016 – Healthline – Healthcare Providers Accumulating Power Through Consolidations
1/1/2016 – The Health Journal – Destigmatizing Cervical Cancer | print (pdf)