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I am a print and radio journalist based in New York City. I’m a contributing producer to TheWeek.com’s audiophiles and a regular contributor to Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. My print and audio work has appeared in Discover, The Ascender, Popular Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Psychology Today, Making Contact and Distillations, a podcast out of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

I hold degrees from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Illinois at Chica…

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7 Healthy and Cheap Food Swaps for Arthritis Relief

7 Healthy and Cheap Food Swaps for Arthritis Relief

For people with arthritis, eating a well-balanced diet is essential to help manage symptoms and to maintain a…

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Four Things That Damage Your DNA | addiction.com

Four Things That Damage Your DNA | addiction.com

Deoxyribonucleic acid - better known as DNA - is the so-called building block of life. That's because it cont…

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Art + Science = Innovation - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

Art + Science = Innovation - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

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5 Strange Reasons You Have a Headache

5 Strange Reasons You Have a Headache

Hors d'oeuvres, dehydration, caffeine withdrawal — these and other strange headache triggers.

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Unscrambling the Health Effects of Eggs

Unscrambling the Health Effects of Eggs

Don’t be afraid to eat this cheap, easily available protein source, in moderation.

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Education Unplugged: In Defense of Paper

Education Unplugged: In Defense of Paper

Physical medical reference books (remember those?) still hold an important place in many EPs' hearts... and i…

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Advantages of Flow Chemistry in the Electrochemical Tri‐ and Difluoromethylation of Purines and Pyrimidines

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By Kaitlyn Corazzata, Amy Kraft, Mark W Grinstaff
| Wiley Online Library
1 Introduction The incorporation of trifluoromethyl (–CF3) and difluoromethyl (–CF2H) groups into heterocycles is a cornerstone of modern small-molecule design due to the distinct physicochemical and pharmacological properties they impart [1, 2]. These fluorinated substituents often enhance lipophilicity, metabolic stability, and membrane permeability, thereby improving drug-like characteristics [3].
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8 Ways to Raise HDL Cholesterol

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By Amy Kraft
| MSN
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As Black maternal mortality reaches crisis level, mothers and advocates take action to improve outcomes

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By Amy Kraft
| Crain's Chicago Business
For Star August, the birth of her first son did not go as planned. August hired an out-of-hospital midwife to guide her through the pregnancy but attended checkups in a hospital as a cost-saving measure. At one of her last checkups, the doctors told her that her amniotic fluid was low and wanted to induce labor. "I wasn't able to get a hold of my midwife, and I didn't know what to do," August recalls. What happened next was a harrowing experience.
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