Ladies? Guess who bears the brunt of Trump’s version of Obamacare?

You do. I wrote this for CT Health Investigative team.

Is this any way to fight an epidemic?

As far as the Zika virus goes? No. It’s not. I wrote this for CT Health Investigative team.

Why are girls between the ages of 10-14 killing themselves?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a stunning report that says that since 1999, suicide in the U.S. has increased by 24 percent. Particularly hard hit are girls between the ages of 10 and 14. Who thinks of girls that young having suicidal thoughts? But there’s at least a partial explanation, and I wrote …

In which I look into my crystal ball…

…and guess what’s coming up in health care. I wrote this for the CT Health Investigative Team. And I really hope no one remembers it in December, just in case everything I guessed was wrong.

Why is our maternal mortality rate so high?

There are all kinds of theories, but only one of them is benign. I wrote this for the CT Health Investigative Team, which celebrates its fifth birthday this month.

It’s time to give men more birth control options.

I wrote this for CT Health Investigative Team.

I get a mammogram when, now?

The American Cancer Society recently changed its guidelines for seeking screening for breast cancer, and the world erupted. How can different entities exploring the data come up with such different recommendations? And who should I believe? I wrote this for CT Health Investigative Team.

Guns + domestic violence = death. We need to change our laws.

Connecticut has a dangerous loophole in its gun laws that allows people operating under a temporary restraining order to possess a firearm. When a gun is involved in a domestic violence incident, women are five times more likely to die. We need to close that loophole. I wrote this for CT Health Investigative Team.

Start from behind, stay behind

I stole that headline from Sharon, but the column, on CT Health Investigative Team’s website, is all mine: The gender pay gap affects women all the way to the grave.

After a baby’s birth, mothers still tend to carry the (housework) weight

A new Ohio State University study says that after a baby comes home, both parents know their workload is increased, but the father’s workload increased by just 40 minutes a day, while the mother’s workload increased by an average of two hours. You can read more here, on CT Health Investigative Team.