Nathanael Johnson

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.

Articles

State Legislators Working on 235 Anti-Abortion Bills

<p class="MsoNormal">Health reform votes knock out incumbents, fewer kids with obesity, more on-the-job fatalities, an epidemic of stillbirths in Iraq and more from our Daily Briefing.</p><p></p>

Global Measles Cases Down But Not Out

<p>A safe shingles vaccine, irrational hospital charges, insurance attempts to circumvent court ruling, a rapidly dwindingling Medicare fund and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

What We Talk About When We Talk About Buffett: Warren Buffett's Cancer as a Teachable Moment.

<p>A million-dollar prostate, new revelations on breast cancer, the link (or lack thereof) between gum disease and heart attacks, problems with biotech crops and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Salmonella outbreak from 'scrape' yellowfin tuna continues to sicken many

<p>Sushi salmonella rolls, saving on health costs by improving quality of life, tying doctor pay to the value they provide, the trouble with market-based health reform, and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Efforts to Cut Down on Opioid Pain Prescriptions

<p>A new hypothesis on autism, more data on the "fat genes," the problem of oral health, rethinking autonomy for the mentally ill and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Obama Administration Reassures Courts

<p>Savings from the medical-loss ratio rule, health-industry sprawl, evidence that bad news can cause heart attacks and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Daily Briefing: Emergency Room Use Rises as Americans Cut Back on Prescriptions, Doctor Visits

<p>Abortion politics, taxing soft-drinks, painkiller abuse, counterfeit drugs and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Obama warns the Supreme Court: Striking down health reform would be "unprecedented"

<p>Overdiagnosing breast cancer, health statistics by county, obesity worse than thought, and straight talk on the political causes of rising costs.</p>

Doctors Not Up To Date On Intrauterine Device Safety: Study

<p>IUDs are safer than doctors think, autism diagnosis up, cancer diagnosis down, speculating on health reform and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

Health Reform at the Supreme Court: The Individual Mandate

<p>The individual mandate to buy insurance, a new poll on feelings about reform, surgery for diabetics, and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>