Constant readers, with publication of SUPERBUG the book coming closer, I’m starting to put together the pieces for a website. It will have stuff about the book, of course: details, excerpts, behind-the-scenes goodies, news on the key characters, and more. But my hope would be for the site to go beyond that, and to be [...]
Constant readers, my warmest greetings for Christmas or whatever winter holiday you celebrate! You are high on the list of the many gifts in my life. Thank you for gathering here and contributing to this truly international community of concern about antibiotic resistance.
I’ll be back early next week with news of two fascinating new studies. [...]
Constant readers, I don’t often ask you for anything — OK, I did ask you to consider an advance buy of SUPERBUG, but that’s a win-win for all of us, right?
But today I’m going to ask you for something, and I hope you’ll trust me that it, too, is a win-win all ’round.
ProMED Mail, the [...]
Folks, it’s been a little busy in my non-blog world, but here’s why:
SUPERBUG now has a publication date!And — even more exciting — it has a cover! (And it’s gorgeous.)
… And I’ll be able to reveal both of them soon — when the publisher’s spring catalog is published.
Not long now. Stay tuned, please.
Constant readers: Some of you know that my first book, published five years ago, was a narrative and history of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, the young, committed corps of MDs and PhDs who give up two years of their lives to serve on front-line outbreak SWAT teams.
The EIS are very important right now, because [...]
Folks, I am a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists, a US-based organization of 1,100 journalists from North America and elsewhere committing to practicing science/health/medical journalism to a high standard. (No matter how much the collapse of the MSM undermines us. But that’s a different blog post…)
One of the things the AHCJ tries [...]
I have a feature in the new February edition of SELF Magazine. (For readers outside the US, SELF is one of the largest magazines aimed at women 18-40 — and it has a ton of international editions, so it may well be on your newsstands too.)
It’s titled “Germophobia,” and it’s a light-hearted but also serious [...]
Constant readers, I am very sad to tell you that Lori Hall Steele, the writer and single mother afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, died Wednesday. As I told you back in September, she could no longer work, could not pay her mortgage or her medical bills, and was about to lose her house to foreclosure, [...]
I hope my constant readers outside the US will forgive me for a moment if I speak just to my countrymen.
Folks: This is the most extraordinary election of my lifetime, and I suspect of yours too.Please vote.The strength of our democracy depends on the participation of all of us.
And non-US readers, hold a thought in [...]
Constant readers will know that I keep the personal buzz on this blog to a low rumble, so as to stay out of the way of the news about MRSA, which affects hundreds of thousands of people beyond n=me. Today, though, I’m going to break my own rule, tell you a story, and launch a [...]
SUPERBUG website coming – what would you like to see?
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