Archive - Medicine Uncovered

In rural America, heart disease is increasingly claiming younger lives

For NBC News, I wrote about how rural adults are living shorter lives than their urban counterparts, largely due to heart disease, and how this got…

Jan 6 •

December 2024

Undiagnosed mental illness in cancer patients is one of the biggest gaps in treatment

For NBC News, I wrote about depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed in patients, taking a significant…

Dec 11, 2024 •

How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis

For Nature, I wrote about how African researchers piloted innovative, low-cost programs to tackle the mental health crisis — and how the rest of the…

Dec 3, 2024 •

October 2024

Did decriminalizing fentanyl cause overdose deaths to spike?

Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2021 and recriminalized them last month. For Scientific American, I wrote about a new analysis suggesting this law…

Oct 21, 2024 •

‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts skeptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

For The Guardian, I wrote about how India accounts for the majority of the world's leprosy cases, but its new elimination campaign is seen as a…

Oct 2, 2024 •

September 2024

Syphilis is at its highest levels since the 1950s. Here’s how to fix that

For NBC News, I wrote about how scientists across the U.S. are racing to develop innovative, unconventional strategies to stop this sexually transmitted…

Sep 10, 2024 •

Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to build anew

For Nature Medicine, I wrote an essay about the recent backlash over diversity, equity, and inclusion and what comes next, with Dr. Ahmed and Dr. Stone

Sep 5, 2024 •

August 2024

Is air pollution the new tobacco?

For National Geographic, I wrote about Taiwan, where most lung cancer cases happen in non-smokers, and what it can teach the U.S.

Aug 27, 2024 •

It’s time to start taking mpox and bird flu seriously

For TIME, I wrote a piece with Dr. Robert Glatter about public health complacency and two potential pandemics brewing in our midst

Aug 19, 2024 •

Kanye West allegedly addicted to laughing gas

Your “Stigma in the News” lead story for August 15, 2024

Aug 15, 2024 •

India is the world’s leprosy hotspot. Can it get rid of this Biblical disease?

India has 60% of all leprosy cases in the world but has promised to eradicate this disease by 2027. Experts say actions speak louder than words

Aug 7, 2024 •

July 2024

A million people died during Rwanda's genocide. Thirty years later, they have one of the world's best mental health systems

The U.S. is in a mental health crisis, but Rwanda could teach us how to decentralize services and heal at the community level

Jul 26, 2024 •

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