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November 19, 2007 : The Boston Globe: Lightman's dream: MIT physicist and author empowers young Cambodian women by building a dormitory for them in Phnom Penh.

June 2007, Nature Medicine: "Paging all doctors," a story about the obstacles facing physicians interested in research.

April 2007, Fast Company: "Not invented here." Drug companies now look to outside labs for new drugs.

January 7, 2006, 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.

Feburary, 2005, Nature Medicine: A profile of Dr. Susan Hockfield, the first biomedical scientist to become president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

U.S. bars AIDS drug trials in countries without follow-up care. Nature Medicine, June 2003.

American universities operate fewer industry trials. Nature Medicine, Feb. 2003.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb and the National Institutes of Health go to battle over AIDS drug royalties . December 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.

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.

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

Pork Futures: The problems and perils of xenotransplantation, Jan./Feb. 2000.

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