Freelance writer and editor
My work
Lingering Chemicals: Legacy pollutants continue to haunt the Great Lakes
Long-lived chemicals that were banned years or even decades ago…
Portraying the Virus as a Scary Demon Works. And More Science News
Masks could save hundreds of thousands of lives, pooled testing…
Tofacitinib approved for arthritis treatment in children
On Sept 28, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration…
Pandemic Leads Some Americans to Like Big Government. And More Science News
Americans think big government is good now, the protective effect…
COVID-19 Immunity Remains Complicated. And More Science Journal News
The acceptability of less rigorous vaccine testing, a passing grade…
Why Don’t We Have a Hepatitis C Vaccine Yet?
The research that won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- bioGraphic (1)
- Biopharma Dealmakers (1)
- BMJ (4)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- CHCO/The Courier (14)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (16)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Live Science (4)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (31)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (107)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
- Nature Medicine (4)
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (21)
- Science Borealis (2)
- Science.ca (1)
- Scientific American (1)
- The Lancet (19)
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (1)
- The Lancet Rheumatology (4)
- The Narwhal (2)
- The Pharmaceutical Journal (6)
- The Tyee (83)
- University Affairs (28)
- Water Canada (1)
- WebMD (1)
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