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I haven't been here in a while, but I'm excited to share my first piece for @FortuneMagazine! Some experts envision a future where controversial weight loss drugs are used to extend life expectancy. fortune.com/well/article/oze…
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I am once again thinking about this insane wine and egg diet published in vogue in the 70s
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Now this was a fun one. Don’t miss out on my amazing karmic full-circle chat with @jessfirger – at Manhattan, NY
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@jessfirger is a health journalist and editor, and on this week's #OutofPatients she talks with @MatthewZachary about #COVID's impact on health coverage, how we're responding to it becoming endemic, and her personal experience recovering from the virus.
Oh, hi, I was a guest on @MatthewZachary’s podcast #OutofPatients. Thanks for the great chat! healthpodcastnetwork.com/epi…
This piece is really something else. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath? newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
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The secret to our survival? The unfathomably tiny creatures that quietly circulate all around us bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW
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The success rate of a misoprostol induced abortion before 70 days is 87% and your medical team cannot tell if you had a self-managed abortion
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Live a life where the decisions you make don't require barricades around your workplace.
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Right now: Barricades are up around the Supreme Court building, just minutes after reports from Politico were leaked indicating SCOTUS has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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The barricades around the U.S. Supreme Court building have been up since at least April 26, 2022, likely in response to the self-immolation of an environmental activist on Earth Day.
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I'm so looking forward to working on @DrSprankle's smart and hilarious book, my third acquisition at the newly relaunched Union Square & Co.
Good News Announcement!
With much thanks to my wonderful agent @MichaelBourret and editor @jessfirger, my debut book, DIY: THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF MASTURBATION will be published by @UnionSqandCo!
It’ll be a perfect gift for your former youth pastor.
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I met Judy Blume in Key West recently (she owns an excellent bookstore there!) and her philosophy about whether books are age-appropriate is this:
If a kid isn't ready for the book, she will put it down!
“I want to stay protected...I think it’s also pretty obvious that this is going to be the norm, and it might just be like in a month or two," one man told @CNN. “Why wait until it’s hard to get appointments again?” cnn.com/2021/08/11/health/co…
“It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless.” nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/…
BREAKING: The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine. You can follow all the news in realtime from CNN's health desk here: cnn.com/world/live-news/coro…
I’m so very delighted to be here and work with you and the rest of the stellar team. I’m hear for the big news...and snacks!
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