Health & Medicine

Chairs arranged in a circle for a group therapy session in a bright room with a high ceiling.

Covering Substance Use and Addiction Responsibly

Rachel Crowell

A worker wearing a red shirt swings a machete to cut sugarcane.

Storygram: Fletcher Reveley’s “In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery”

Lauren Gravitz

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Reporting on Assistive Technology

Amanda Morris

Ruth Olurounbi and Kelechukwu Iruoma Report on the Health and Environmental Devastation Wrought by Oil Operations in Nigeria

Amir Sadiq

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One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Make Sense of Different Kinds of Scientific Studies

Kelly Tyrrell

A white laboratory mouse being held in a green-gloved hand.

How to Report on Animal Research Fairly and Transparently

Celia Ford

A man crossing a narrow log bridge in a forest.

How to Find and Publish Stories about Global Disease Outbreaks for an International Audience

Pratik Pawar

Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty

Celia Ford

Ankur Paliwal Tells the Tale of a Rare Genetic Disorder and People Who Live with It

Pratik Pawar

Illustration of about a dozen people wearing white face masks, looking in different directions.

Roundtable: Keeping Pace with Pandemic Coverage in the U.S.

Katherine J. Wu

Aeriel view of a dispersed crowd standing on top of an abstract city map.

Reporting That Hits Home: Covering Science for Local Audiences

Aparna Nathan

Mahdi and Modupe

Mahdi Garba and Modupe Abidakun on the Tragic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria

Abdullahi Tsanni

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Reporting on Health Disparities

Jyoti Madhusoodanan

A word cloud in which the most prominent words are pandemic, will, end, people, vaccinate, COVID-19.

When Will the Pandemic End? 26 Science Reporters and Communicators Respond

Betsy Ladyzhets

A man standing on a hillside observing a crop-duster flying over adjacent fields.

Covering Environmental Health When Science Is Lacking

María Paula Rubiano A.

Sarah Zhang

Sarah Zhang Probes the Dwindling Number of Children Born with Down Syndrome

Jeanne Erdmann

A world map, with different countries shaded to reflect vaccination rates as of February 14, 2021.

Tip Sheet: Covering COVID-19 Vaccines

Betsy Ladyzhets

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How to Report with Accuracy and Sensitivity on Contested Illnesses

Julie Rehmeyer