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

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.

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…