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How to support patients grappling with genetic testing results.
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
October 1, 2026.
Misoprostol Could Be Next: If the Supreme Court upholds new restrictions on mifepristone,
the other abortion pill may be targeted too.
The Atlantic
May 6, 2026.
Worsening weather is driving smarter behavioral interventions.
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
January 1, 2026.
This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it?
The Guardian
November 5, 2025.
Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom.
The Atlantic
July 11, 2025.
Navigating firearm safety discussions in clinical settings.
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
July 1, 2025.
The changing marijuana landscape: What you need to know.
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
June 1, 2025.
The Push to Grant Fetuses and Embryos Legal Rights Is Threatening IVF Treatment.
Scientific American
May 7, 2025.
Why This AI Gazes into Goat Faces.
Scientific American
February 7, 2025.
New report sheds light on why young Asian Americans are 40% more likely to develop allergies.
NBC News
January 11, 2025.
An Unexpected Window Into the Trump Campaign.
The Atlantic
September 20, 2024.
Ultrasound Brain Stimulation Boosts Mindfulness.
Scientific American
The Plan to Take Down the Hyde Amendment.
The Atlantic
August 19, 2024.
Should Insurance Cover Wegovy, Ozempic and Other New Weight-Loss Drugs?
Scientific American
October 16, 2023.
Some Metals Mysteriously Heal Their Own Cracks.
Scientific American
What's the World's Oldest Language?
August 24, 2023.
Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity.
August 15, 2023.
How Advocates Pushed Big Pharma to Cut Tuberculosis Drug Prices.
First Pill for Postpartum Depression Approved.
Six Ways to Stay Safe Outdoors in Extreme Heat.
Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse across the U.S.
Time Flowed Five Times Slower Shortly after the Big Bang.
Can Your Body’s Response to Music Predict Hit Songs? A New AI Study Claims It Can.
June 30, 2023.
One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Bans Are Harming Reproductive Care, Ob-Gyns Say.
June 23, 2023.
A Common Diabetes Drug May Prevent Long COVID in Some People.
June 22, 2023.
How Indigenous Knowledge may shape the future of US policy
Harvard Public Health.
June 5, 2023.
Can a ‘Fingerprint’ of Your Brain Help Predict Disorders?
Smithsonian Magazine.
March 24, 2023.
Meet six women fighting to stop the global backslide on women’s rights.
Harvard Public Health
March 8, 2023.
Welcome to the Mouse House: Where Do Scientists Get Mice for Their Experiments?
Medium
December 22, 2022.
How Your Brain’s “Fingerprints” Could Diagnose Disease.
Discover Magazine
November 23, 2022.
Machine learning is emerging as a new creative tool for artists. Will it replace its creator?
Data-Driven Fiction
Send A Letter, Save A Life: Suicide Prevention Through Caring Contacts.
Healthline
October 3, 2022.
Can magic mushrooms be used to treat racial trauma?
The Guardian
March 28, 2022.
Harvard Political Review
June 4, 2021.
EDITORIALS, INTERVIEWS, AND BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review - The Felicity Complex
Science
June 11, 2026.
Ensuring strong evidence leads to strong delivery
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
April 21, 2026.
Book Review - When disease resists diagnosis.
Science
March 26, 2026.
Book Review - How Our Love for Citrus Shaped the Modern World.
Scientific American
October 15, 2024.
Melissa Smith, PhD, helps workplaces embrace AI.
The Monitor, American Psychological Association
September 1, 2024.
Book Review - How a Group of Women Launched Modern Cosmology
Scientific American
August 20, 2024.
Book Review - The Garden Against Time.
Scientific American
May 14, 2024.
Book Review - The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.
Scientific American
March 19, 2024.
Book Review - Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean.
Scientific American
March 1, 2024.
Book Review - Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel.
Scientific American
January 1, 2024.
A Black Physician Takes on Racism in Medicine.
Scientific American
November 20, 2023.
Grad School Exams Should be Pass/Fail, Including the MCAT, GRE, and GMAT.
Teen Vogue
September 6, 2023.
Better Ways Than BMI to Measure Obesity.
July 5, 2023.
Navigating the slow current: overcoming challenges in water sustainability
Harvard Public Health
June 6, 2023.
The invisible minority: how anti-Roma racism fuels health disparities.
Harvard Public Health
April 25, 2023.
Birth Control Access May Get Easier. Here's Why It's Not Enough.
Undark Magazine
February 9, 2023.
“ABGs”, Affirmative Action, and Anti-Blackness in the Asian American community.
Harvard Political Review
March 22, 2021.