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,...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Leila Okahata (@LeilaOkahata) writes for UCLA’s Daily Bruin about research that discovered some of the biological basis for the link between experiences of discrimination and poor health. The researchers discovered changes in patterns of connectivity in...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) wrote a piece for Time Magazine on the crisis of access to clean water and sanitation in the U.S., where more than 2 million do not have indoor plumbing and many more do not have safe drinking water. Keying off of the recent environmental...
