I'm an investigative journalist, author and teacher specializing in science, medicine and health.  My latest book, Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves, about how climate change will affect our health, is due out in August.  I'm also a contributing editor at Discover, and a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times.  My Discover story, Going to Extremes, about climate change in Australia, was anthologized in Best American Science Writing, 2012.  I've also been a contributing editor for Omni and Ladies' Home Journal, and have written for dozens of national magazines, including the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Pacific Standard, Los Angeles, Spin, More, Mother Jones, Popular Science, Reader's Digest, Glamour, the Financial Times and Utne Reader.  I'm also the author of Prescription for Profits: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Bankrolled the Unholy Marriage Between Science and Business.