by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
In Pacific NW Magazine, Sandi Doughton (@sandidoughton) features long-running Seattle-area research that is uncovering clues to dementia by tracking local seniors. Doughton introduces us to researchers and participants in the study and highlights some of its key...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Elise Takahama (@elisetakahama) tells the story of a man who donated part of his brain to science for the Seattle Times. Interspersed with the man’s story of stroke, aftermath, surgery and recovery, Takahama takes us into the operating room where surgeons carried out...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
New NSWA member Katie MacBride (@msmacb) writes for Inverse about xylatine, a veterinary sedative that is increasingly found in samples of street opiates and seems to be contributing to overdose deaths. MacBride reviews the evidence about the rise of “tranq dope” in...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) won in the journalism category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for his story on the ongoing efforts to trap carbon in stone as a way to slow climate change. The judges wrote that Beiser used an engaging writing style to...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
For STAT News, Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner) reports on the role of a medication’s efficacy and R&D costs in its eventual price, and what role this might play in Medicare’s newly granted authority to negotiate prices. She discusses new research that reveals the...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Sabin Russell (@sabinwiki) takes a deep look at peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage in hands and feet that can result in numbness, tingling and stabbing pain. Often a result of treatment with particular cancer chemotherapies,...
