My story was published in Minority Nurse/Fall 2014.

My story was published in Minority Nurse/Spring 2014

CenteringPregnancy aims to boost birth outcomes among low-income and minority women. My story profiles CenteringPregnancy group at Providence Hospital, a major urban hospital in Washington, DC and was published in Minority Nurse Magazine/Winter 2013.

I wrote Minority Nurse magazine’s cover story in Summer 2012 on the intersection between heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. The story also discusses research how nurses are vulnerable due to a variety of factors: poor sleep and diet and the lack of exercise.

This consumer health story offers strategies to help your child cope with separation anxiety. Published in Gazette Health/Spring 2013.

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Published in Gazette Health/Spring 2013, this story explores plagiocephaly, cranial asymmetry in infants and orthotics parents use to correct the problem. Researchers say the condition is an unintended consequence of “back to sleep,” a campaign aimed at stomach-sleeping, a potential cause of SIDS.

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This story profiles two post-docs at George Mason University who are studying migration and mating patterns of two big cat species that are endangered, the Indian leopard and the Indian tiger. Published in GMU College of Sciences’s Periodic Elements/Spring 2012.

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This story profiles two incremental but important steps in HIV research at George Mason U. — how to safely eradicate viral HIV reservoirs and how the virus hijacks a cell’s internal machinery to replicate itself. Published in Periodic Elements, the news magazine of GMU’s College of Science/Fall 2013.

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I wrote Minority Nurse magazine’s cover story in Summer 2012 on the intersection between heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. The story also discusses research how nurses are vulnerable due to a variety of factors: poor sleep and diet and the lack of exercise.

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Anti-retroviral therapy has dramatically increased the life expectancy of people with HIV. But, the disease and its treatment complicates — and in some cases, hastens — heart disease, diabetes and other factors, posing a challenge for patients and caregivers. My story published in Minority Nurse/Spring 2013.

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