Health blogging for Forbes
I’ve been blogging on the intersection of women’s health, politics and pop culture for Forbes.com.
LA Times: Employers tell workers to get a move on
My May 15 article for the LA Times: Concerned about sedentary jobs, many offices find ways to add exercise to the workday. Some see it as an investment in workers’ healthcare. May 15, 2011 | By Olga Khazan, Special to the Los Angeles Times Between the sheet-cake birthday parties and hours-long, cookie-fueled management meetings, office...
Will Revolving Door Staffers Influence Planned Parenthood Funding?
[From KCET] With its federal funding already threatened and congressional budget negotiations still under way, Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides health care and abortions at reduced prices, faces an uncertain future. The organization came under fire last month with a House budget proposal that would have withdrawn its federal funding. Although the Senate defeated...
Can Social Networks Save Lives?
“Imagine you were stricken with boils all over your body, you were in the hospital, you were alone, you were in terrible pain, and life had lost all of its fun.” Depression takes people to that place emotionally.
A smattering of South Africa
In Cape Town I was working for News24.co.za, the largest news site in South Africa. While I was there, I wrote a few health pieces for the Health24 section (which is an MSN partner), mostly on World-Cup related themes:
Crenshaw package in Mediabistro’s Fishbowl LA
Mediabistro’s Fishbowl LA picked up our series on Crenshaw today. The set of 10 stories examines the challenges and successes faced by residents of a historically blighted urban area in Los Angeles, including Crenshaw High School. An excerpt from my piece on nutrition follows…
PTSD in Urban High Schools: Huffington Post
Today my article on post-traumatic stress among Crenshaw High schoolers was picked up by the Huffington Post.
How will healthcare reform help you?
As always, what concerns House members most is not what the bill can do for their country, but what the bill can do for their district. That's why yesterday Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) compiled a list of the benefits of the healthcare reform bill for every congressional district in the nation.
I looked at the reports...
New special projects on Neon Tommy
As part of my role as senior editor at NeonTommy.com, I helped launch two new special projects on the site in the past few weeks. The first is an ongoing project examining the clean-up efforts at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, two of the largest and most pollution-clogged ports in...
Neon Tommy unveils Swine Flu project
Today Neon Tommy launched the first installment of our investigative special project on H1N1. After repeated requests, LA county officials released the death certificates of all LA county Swine Flu victims to Neon Tommy reporters a few weeks ago. Since then, we’ve been calling LA county officials, talking to doctors and meeting with the victims’...
Needed: A public option you can believe in – robust or otherwise
Just when everyone seemed ready to put the public option on the funeral pyre, it looks like it was brought back to life, or at least a vegetative coma.
It’s true, Democrats in both houses want and need the entire party on board before they take their bills to the floor. But in crafting legislation, the...