#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
MacBride: New Drug Contaminant
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...
Beiser: Trapping Carbon in Stone
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...
Silberner: Drug Price Negotiation
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...
Russell: Cancer Neuropathy
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,...
Okahata: Discrimination’s Impacts
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...