Published Works

A few of my favorite stories and projects

• Long Covid is keeping millions out of work – and worsening labor shortage in the US, The Guardian (Sep 2022)

• Here's how to design drug trials to defeat the next pandemic, CNN (July 2021)

• Redefining Covid-19: Months after infection, patients report breathing difficulty, excessive fatigue, CNN (September 2020)

• Chronic fatigue syndrome a possible long-term effect of Covid-19, experts say, CNN (August 2020)

• I can’t shake Covid-19: Warnings from young survivors still suffering, CNN (July 2020)

• After saving his life with a repurposed drug with a repurposed drug, a professor reviews every drug being tried against Covid-19. Here’s what he’s found, CNN (June 2020)

• This breast cancer advocate says she discovered a Facebook flaw that put the health data of millions at risk, CNN (February 2020)

• When Ted Koppel’s wife was given a few years left to live, the couple dedicated themselves to fighting COPD, CNN (November 2019)

• This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions. CNN (September 2019)

• He pioneered technology that drove the Human Genome Project. How his greatest challenge is curing his own son. CNN (May 2019)

• This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself. CNN, (July 2019; also the #1 read CNN story in 2019)

• Forgotten Plague, documentary (2015): Forgotten Plague told one of the great under-reported medical stories of our time. Based on the success of stories I wrote about chronic fatigue/myalgic encephalomyelitis for USA Today, my co-director Nicole Castillo and I produced a feature-length documentary. It was called a “must-see documentary” in the Huffington Post and is available on Amazon Prime.