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Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna
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Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna is an award-winning science and medical writer and author of Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (named one of the top 10 science books of 2004 by Amazon). She currently works as a contributing writer for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and is a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and has also studied at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Minneapolis.

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Discover Magazine, January 14, 2012
...the market. Great story by Eliza Strickland. Early contender for year?s most chilling article: found in India. By Maryn Mckenna Museum collection of could provide clues to mental illness. By Virginia Hughes. � Science/news/writing Climate change, as...
Discover Magazine, January 14, 2012
...by Eliza Strickland. Early contender for year’s most chilling article: completely drug-resistant TB found in India. By Maryn Mckenna Museum collection of jellied autopsied brains from 1890s could provide clues to mental illness. By Virginia...
Discover Magazine, December 24, 2011
...this year, but do have a look at The Browser’s . They have exceedingly good taste. . Do read Maryn McKenna’s wonderful piece on sepsis (and a ). A fantastic ? 300 years in 5 mins The price of superstition: how is a threat to wildlife How much does the...
CBS News, December 12, 2011
...over and start in on cleaning up your hand has probably wondered how healthy this can possibly be. Maryn McKenna over at Superbug has uncovered a paper that will probably terrify, but may, with its detailed descriptions of diseases contracted from pets...
Discover Magazine, December 12, 2011
...over and start in on cleaning up your hand has probably wondered how healthy this can possibly be. Maryn McKenna over at Superbug has uncovered a paper that will probably terrify, but may, with its detailed descriptions of diseases contracted from pets...
Discover Magazine, December 12, 2011
...over and start in on cleaning up your hand has probably wondered how healthy this can possibly be. Maryn McKenna over at Superbug has uncovered a paper that will probably terrify, but may, with its detailed descriptions of diseases contracted from pets...
Mail Online UK, December 9, 2011
...instead used a different technique and suffered because of it. The bizarre biological case, highlighted by science writer Maryn McKenna on her blog, is by no means the first case of shepherds castrating lams with their teeth and, while not widespread,...
Mail Online UK, December 9, 2011
...instead used a different technique and suffered because of it. The bizarre biological case, highlighted by science writer Maryn McKenna on her blog, is by no means the first case of shepherds castrating lams with their teeth and, while not widespread,...
Wired News, December 9, 2011
...invasive, reliable, cheap and have a durable clinical history. Ick factor-powered regulations, however, are blocking treatments. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports...
Wired News, December 7, 2011
...poem, editors chose 50 science blog posts -- including one each by Wired Science Blogs authors David Dobbs, Maryn McKenna and Brian...