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Carey Goldberg

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Carey Goldberg is the co-host of WBUR’s CommonHealth blog. She has been the Boston bureau chief of The New York Times, a staff Moscow correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, and a health/science reporter for The Boston Globe. She was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT; graduated summa cum laude from Yale; and did graduate work at Harvard. She is co-author of the triple memoir “Three Wishes: A True Story Of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak and Astonishing Luck On Our Way To Love and Motherhood.”

Recent stories

No ‘Pot Doctors,’ Neon, Candy: Mass. Medical Pot Rules Take Shape

June 18, 2013
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No neon. No candy. No ‘pot doctors.’ Mass. medical marijuana rules begin to take shape.

Bullying At Home: Aggressive Siblings Hurt Mental Health, Study Finds

June 17, 2013
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Like bullying by peers, bullying by siblings can cause significant mental distress, a new study finds.

Long After Recession’s End, Deep Layoff Scars May Remain

June 14, 2013
In this June, 2010, photo, Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May of 2009, is seen during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The recession is officially over, but millions who were laid off may bear deep emotional scars.

Breaking: Supreme Court Says Genes Cannot Be Patented

June 13, 2013
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Supreme Court rules that human genes cannot be patented.

Call To American Doctors: Denounce Force-Feeding Of Guantanamo Strikers

June 13, 2013
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Dec. 31, 2009) A Soldier stands guard in a tower at Camp Delta at Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody Black/Wikimedia Commons)

A call in The New England Journal of Medicine for American doctors to condemn force-feeding of Guantanamo hunger strikers.

Don’t Miss: Why Mass. Needs Law On Screening Newborn Oxygen Levels

June 11, 2013
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Don’t miss Cognoscenti’s post by a pediatric cardiologist on why Mass. needs oxygen-level screening in newborns.

Shun Multivitamins? They Won’t Kill You, But Walk To Farmstand Instead

June 10, 2013
Recent studies raise concerns about vitamin supplements

A reality check on an outspoken article from this weekend headlined “Don’t Take Your Vitamins.” In fact, they won’t kill you, but neither will they do much good, a Harvard researcher says.

Study: Your Brain Makes Hundreds Of New Neurons A Day

June 06, 2013
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A Harvard neuroscientist explains new findings that your brain makes hundreds of new neurons a day.

Bosses From Hell: Workplace Bullies In The Non-Profit Sector

June 05, 2013
The sylvan headquarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge/ (Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)

An expert on workplace bullies discusses the Globe expose of an honorary society leader described as a horrible boss.

Cancer From Oral Sex? Michael Douglas Is Not Making It Up

June 03, 2013
Actor Michael Douglas in a 2004 photo (Wikimedia Commons/US Navy)

Michael Douglas’s statement that his HPV-related cancer stemmed initially from oral sex fits into a broader trend.