Nathanael Johnson
Health Editor
Health Editor
Nathanael is the health editor at the startup mycirQle. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine, and featured on This American Life. After cutting his teeth at a small-town daily newspaper in Idaho, Nathanael went on to work at the public radio station KALW in San Francisco, as a Clay Felker Fellow at New York Magazine, and as a freelancer. He is currently writing a book about the idea that what is natural is healthy, due out February 2013. Nathanael graduated from Pomona College in 2001 and received his master's degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley, in 2005.
GSK admits to major fraud, risks in early births, Obamacare quietly working away and a strike against low-carb diets in our Daily Briefing.
Soda makers take off the gloves as do Republican governors, while reporters use disease to humanize Ann Romney and surfers protest plans for new nuclear plants in Japan.
The court ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional, defining it as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the more liberal justices in the majority. However, the court limited the federal government's power to cut off Medicaid money going to states....
Autism researchers seek brains, obesity screening recommended, drug policy debated, insurers double dipping on veteran care and more from our Daily Briefing.
Cartoon animals selling drugs, insurance premiums to be paid back, drinking during pregnancy, antibiotic-free meat and more from our Daily Briefing.
Projections for health care costs, a failure to curb prescription-drug abuse, medications for kids and more from our Daily Briefing.
An big increase in CT scanning, the potential for Supreme Court fallout, the human microbiome mapped, cancer survivors increase and more from our Daily Briefing.
Brain bank failure, hygiene hypothesis, insurer practice changes and more from our Daily Briefing.
<p>Immigration enforcement cracking down on farmworker clinics, vaccines innappropiately stored, hospitals ranked, drug-resistant gonorrhea spreading and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>
<p>Cartoon reforms, refunds from insurance companies, partisan wrangling, putting the poor in the path of pollution and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>