In medicine and health care, I'm drawn to stories about people and programs that help those most in need -- plus innovative tech applications with the same goal.  

Alexia Gordon MD, mystery novelist
Vassar

The power of prevention: URMC looks to the future to prevent suicide
Rochester Medicine

Aging reimagined: a new view of old age
Rochester Medicine

Vaccination gets a boost when people know their neighbors are doing it
Texas McCombs

A plan for the unthinkable: writing the rules for ventilator rationing
Rochester Medicine

Bringing behavioral health care to underserved communities
Advancing Care in the Hudson Valley

Project ECHO: Reducing health disparities
Minority Nurse

Born to bridge psychiatry and medicine
Rochester Medicine
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Social media added to the costs of the Flint water crisis
University of Chicago - Booth Review

Detecting early-stage disease
Carnegie Mellon University

Why health authorities should focus on on-screen smoking
University of Chicago - Booth Review

Transforming health care with machine learning
Carnegie Mellon University

Using data analytics to select drug-disease pairs in clinical trials
Carnegie Mellon University

How strong transactive memory in trauma units benefits patients
Carnegie Mellon University

Medtech visionaries in focused ultrasound
University of Virginia - Darden

With a specialty in writing about history, I also like exploring less-known events from the past:  

The road to the RN
​POST Magazine

The women who built Rochester General
​POST Magazine

1918 influenza pandemic
Rochester Business Journal