Julia Belluz
Health correspondent @voxdotcom #medicine #science #publichealth MIT Knight Fellow '14. Contact me securely @ KeyBase: jbelluz or DM for Signal
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'She Has Her Mother’s Laugh’ Wins Best Book Award From Academies; NPR, Science News, ProPublica, and GroundTruth Project/PBS Frontline Also Take Top Prizes
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today the recipients of the 2019 Communication Awards.
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Julia Belluz
@today_explained Not to mention throwing food around for this @ginabeansy video on the keto diet
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Julia Belluz
Chuffed to be a finalist in the @theNASEM communications award for our metabolism/obesity reporting at Vox @elizabarclay @mccarthy_brigid @ginabeansy And congrats to the other finalists and winners!
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This feminist gynecologist wants you to know your body and fight the patriarchy
With her new book, Jen Gunter aims to fight the myths that plague women.
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Julia Belluz
Had a blast talking to the one and only @DrJenGunter about her new book, The Vagina Bible, and her important vagenda
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Tardigrades, the toughest animals on Earth, have crash-landed on the moon
The tardigrade conquest of the solar system has begun.
The University of Maryland just released a report on its incredibly irresponsible chocolate milk research
It was everything wrong with modern-day science-by-press-release in one anecdote.
The keto moment
The extreme diet phenomenon may offer clues on how nutrition can treat disease.
Julia Belluz
The keto diet is having a moment. Why now? I explain here.
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(Wrote this story for Vox's Highlight magazine a while back. Now it's up on the site, free for all!)
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Who should get the HPV vaccine? The recommendations keep changing.
The HPV vaccine is now recommended for some people as old as 45.
Uterine Fibroids and Heavy Periods
A reader asks about the cause of uterine fibroids and their consequences.
Scientists are grappling with our biggest limitation in spaceflight: our own bodies
We’ve sent people to space for decades — but we’re only beginning to learn what that means for human health.
The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work
They’re political theater, not good public health policy.
Humans Are the Scariest Predator
The sound of people talking can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.
Why travel bans will only make the Ebola epidemic worse
The argument against airport screening and travel restrictions in a time of Ebola.
Julia Belluz
The same was true for the West Africa outbreak in 2014 -2016 but that didn't stop Donald Trump, Chris Christie and others from calling on travel bans.
Here's to hoping history won't repeat itself. 2/2
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The WHO finally declared a public health emergency over Ebola
The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ongoing since last August.
Julia Belluz
While WHO declared Ebola in DRC a global public health emergency today, they also cautioned countries against imposing any travel and trade restrictions against the affected countries & said the risk of spread beyond DRC and the region remains low. 1/2
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Keto is the hottest extreme diet in America. But could it also be a cure? — Vox
At first, the cravings were like “a drug withdrawal,” Jay Wortman recalls. Lying on a hotel bed in Ottawa one night, he’d had to white-knuckle his way out of eating Ferrero Rocher chocolates he’d spirited off a flight. A recent Type 2 diabetes...
Julia Belluz
Keto is the perfect, anti-establishment f%$k-everything-you-know-about-nutrition diet for the moment.
It's also part of a fascinating exploration of nutrition to heal disease.
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My latest, exclusive on Apple News+ for a week.
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A new Trump executive order on kidneys could save thousands of lives
It’s one of the biggest government actions on kidneys in decades.
What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America
The return of a vanquished disease reflects historical amnesia, declining faith in institutions, and a troubling lack of concern for the public good.
Associations Between State Interventions and Vaccination Status Among Kindergartners in California
This observational study uses yearly cross-sectional school-entry data to calculate changes in rates of kindergartners attending California schools who were not up to date on required vaccinations before and after legislative and administrative...
Julia Belluz
Making it harder for parents to opt out of vaccines... helps more children get vaccinated
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Elizabeth Warren Calls on Former F.D.A. Chief to Quit Pfizer Board
The Democratic presidential candidate rebuked Dr. Scott Gottlieb, saying his decision to align with a major drug company “smacks of corruption.”
The first chiropractor was a Canadian who claimed he received a message from a ghost
Daniel David (DD) Palmer invented the field of chiropractic care. He said the idea for chiropractic care came to him from the ‘other world’ during a séance