Blame Your DNA?
Study: Genes may detemine if you’re a fitness fanatic or a couch potato.
Los Angeles Times, September, 2009
Category: Health stories
Reader’s Digest: how to spot a bogus health fad
How to Spot a Bogus Health Fad
Learn what to ask before buying into the latest health fad.
Reader’s Digest,
Runner’s World: the pill problem
The Pill Problem
The right drug can relieve pain and discomfort—or put you in a world of hurt. Why you should think twice before popping a pain pill before running.
Runner’s World, May, 2009
O, the Oprah Magazine: The problem with plastic
Problems with Plastic
The Controversy Over BPA Heats Up
O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2009
Marie Claire: Fertility 101
Fertility 101
What you need to know about biological clocks and fertility.
Marie Claire, Jan 2009
New York Times: Why have recent triathlon deaths occured during the swim portion?
Deaths Draw Attention to Triathlon Swim
While triathlon deaths remain rare, a puzzling resemblance is beginning to present itself: all recorded deaths in the last two years have happened during the swim portion of the event.
The New York Times, July 31, 2008
New York Times: Should parents give their kids placebos?
Experts Question Placebo Pill for Children
Should deception play a role in helping a child feel better?
The New York Times, May 27, 2008
Men’s Journal: Ignore this health advice
Health Advice You Can Safely Ignore
Seven bits of conventional wisdom that turn out to be dead wrong.
Men’s Journal
New York Times: The American Cancer Society’s deceptive awareness campaign about skin cancer
Doctors Balk at Cancer Ad, Citing Lack of Evidence
Some doctors are questioning a cancer society ad campaign on sunscreen because most skin cancer is not life-threatening.
The New York Times, July 10, 2007
O, the Oprah Magazine: My Achy-Breaky Parts
My Achy-Breaky Parts
That stabbing pain in your neck. That weird pang in your hips. And, ach your aching back. Can this body be saved, or at least temporarily put out of its misery? Christie Aschwanden tells how to handle the inevitability of aging, from snaps and pops to crackles and crunches.
O, The Oprah Magazine
Bitten: the essential facts about Lyme Disease
What every hiker needs to know about Lyme disease.
Backpacker
A feature package about Lyme disease, including risk factors, symptoms and stats, prevention tips and a sidebar about the controversy about chronic Lyme disease. This story first appeared in Backpacker magazine, and was reprinted in Men’s Health.
Christie Aschwanden 