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Great piece from Dana Smith on all the panic and bad science comms around dopamine these days. "You don’t have to deny yourself pleasure to be a good or healthy person." nytimes.com/2023/06/30/wel…

This is a refreshingly accurate The New York Times article by Dana Smith describing the biology of dopamine, possibly the most widely popularized and misunderstood neurotransmitter nytimes.com/2023/06/30/wel…

I had fun tracking my glucose for about 5 days until I realized that virtually nothing made me spike above 110 except for a bagel and a bizarre juice drink thing. Are those mini spikes bad for health? Probably not. Find out more in my latest for The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/07/12/wel…

I spoke to over a dozen patients, doctors and researchers about tick-borne diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Cases have increased dramatically over the past decade, but getting a diagnosis is still difficult. nytimes.com/2023/07/24/wel…

Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Alpha-gal syndrome and more. As tick territories expand throughout the U.S., so too are the number of illnesses they cause. Here is what it's like to live with some of them. nyti.ms/3KdkWR8

Coverage of the EG.5 and FLip variants, The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/08/11/wel…, excerpt below. by Dana Smith w/Trevor Bedford Andrew Pekosz “I’m generally very concerned about the overall rate of evolution for #SARSCoV2” —Trevor Bedford

On 1 print page in today's NYT Science, 2 good articles —On the EG.5 variant nytimes.com/2023/08/11/wel… —On delaying boosters until the new XBB.1.5 is available (should be in ~3 weeks) nytimes.com/article/covid-… by Dana Smith w/ Trevor Bedford Paul Sax David Boulware, MD MPH Andrew Pekosz

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was under a shelter-in-place order on Monday afternoon after the school warned that an “armed, dangerous person” was on campus, saying that a suspect was still at large. nyti.ms/3YSlIZQ

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

Covid and the heart, in today's NYT Science nytimes.com/2023/09/07/wel… by Dana Smith with many good points

Do nasal sprays vs Covid work? nytimes.com/2023/09/28/wel… by Dana Smith we don't really know

On science of aging, front page The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/03/20/wel… by Dana Smith

Does caloric restriction or intermittent fasting promote longevity in people? A good front page The New York Times review of the data nytimes.com/2024/04/24/wel… by Dana Smith