Healthy advice — practiced and otherwise
Health care professionals are human too. They might counsel patients to live a disciplined lifestyle, but sometimes they skip workouts, order dessert and postpone annual checkups — just like the...
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Writing about how we teach September 11
In my reporting of teaching 9/11, I felt so fortunate. Not to just be in a job where I get to deconstruct one of the most pivotal events of the...
New focus on concussions is altering prep athletics
The scowl that creased Troy Piccinini's face on a recent afternoon was not the game face of a football player, at least not this fall. Piccinini, 16, just had struggled...
New focus on concussions is altering prep athletics
The scowl that creased Troy Piccinini's face on a recent afternoon was not the game face of a football player, at least not this fall. Piccinini, 16, just had struggled...
How geriatric experts care for their own
Some 10 million American caregivers are juggling jobs along with households -- and looking after an aging relative was ranked as the No. 1 source of stress, according to a...
Remember fake IDs? These seem … different …
Even though fake IDs are a part of virtually every college student's memories, in the course of reporting this story, I was amazed by today's utter accessibility. Forget seeking out...
Reporting on children in the hospital
I think the most important consideration when covering a story about anyone with a chronic illness is to make yourself as invisible as possible. You don't want to intrude, so...
Battling 4-year-old’s cancer with chemo, Doritos and caring
From the beginning, the team around Kya Simpson-Freeman faced a daunting task: Stomp out a deadly tumor without crushing the spirit of a 4-year-old girl.Just 650 cases of neuroblastoma are...
Battling 4-year-old’s cancer with chemo, Doritos and caring
From the beginning, the team around Kya Simpson-Freeman faced a daunting task: Stomp out a deadly tumor without crushing the spirit of a 4-year-old girl.Just 650 cases of neuroblastoma are...
Welcome to Camp Tur-Ni-Toff
In the era of iPods, cellphones and BlackBerrys, overnight summer camps are tussling with how much technology should intrude upon their bucolic bubbles. Most camps are trying to hold the...