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Hilarity for Charity.

8/2/2016

Interviewing Seth Rogen and his filmmaker wife Lauren Miller Rogen today about their comedic tour de force that "kicks Alzheimer's in the balls," Hilarity for Charity. This is my second interview with Seth. To read the first, click here. I'll post this fresh content when it goes live.

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Celebrity Health
Click on the links below to read the profiles of the many prominent actors, comedians, singers, authors, and politicians I've interviewed over the years. Personal favorites? Chris Rock and Malcolm Gladwell (pictured above).

_Kristin Chenoweth
_Bear Grylss
_Mayte Garcia
_Malcolm Gladwell
_Trevor Noah
_Gloria Estefan
_Ann Romney
_Taye Diggs
_Tiffany Haddish
_Lesley Stahl
_Annette Bening
_Marcia Gay Harden
_Sharon Stone
_Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan (BRAIN & LIFE)
_Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan (WEBMD)
_Jack Johnson & 13
Inspiring Ocean Heroes
_ Jack Johnson Q&A (extra)
_Zoe Saldana
_Seth Meyers
_Seth Rogen and
Lauren Miller Rogen
_Curtis Stone
_Cameron Diaz
_Adrian Grenier
_Neil Patrick Harris
_Laura Prepon
_Joe Manganiello
_Chelsea Handler
_Matthew McConaughey
_Jimmy Fallon
_Chris Rock
_Hilary Swank
_Demi Lovato
_PBS Chef Ed Kenney
_Queen Latifah (USA Today)
_Queen Latifah (WebMD)
_Jenna Bush
_Rob Lowe
_Seth Rogen
_Roseanne Barr
_Kerry Washington
_Abigail Breslin
_Marcia Gay Harden
_Maggie Q.
_Anna Kendrick
_Lucy Liu
_Ty Burrell
_Kermit the Frog
_Christina Applegate
_Anna Kendrick
_Reid Scott
_Alicia Keys
_Claire Danes
_Debi Mazar
_Chris O'Donnell
_Julie Bowen
_Taraji P. Henson
_Alanis Morissette
_Carrie Fisher
_Harrison Ford
_Kellan Lutz
_Ang Lee
_Stanley Tucci
_Sheryl Crow
_Lisa Ling
_Julia Louis-Dreyfus
_Joan Didion
_Serena Williams
_Liev Schreiber
_Alicia Silverstone
_Julianne Hough
_Kelly Ripa
_Katherine Heigl
_Amanda de Cadenet
_Jamie Oliver (WebMD)
_Jamie Oliver (Wash. Flyer)
_Tyler Perry
_Taye Diggs
_Lauren Graham
_Tony Goldwyn
_Curtis Sittenfeld
_Stephen Moyer
_Stanley Tucci
_Ashley Judd
_Soledad O'Brien
_Marcia Cross
_Andre Agassi
_Martina Navratilova
_Christina Hendricks
_Louis Black
_Aaron Eckhart
_Amy Brenneman
_Ana Villafane
_Dana Delany
_Cote de Pablo
_Danica McKellar
_Casey Wilson
_Torchwood: Miracle Day
_Tia and Tamara Mowry
_Sonequa Martin-Green
_CNN's Wolf Blitzer
_Olivia Wilde

The Environment
Click on the links below to read about our endangered oceans and marine life—and how these hero scientists and activists are working to save them.

_The "Genius" Landscape Architect Who Is Redesigning Coastlines

_Researchers Who Measure Plastic Waste in Our Oceans Sound the Alarm

_Why We Must Save the Whales—to Breathe

_Meet Hillary Hauser, Citizen Advocate Behind Heal the Ocean

_The Two Teens Who Took On Plastic Bags—and Won

_This Actor Used to Suck—and He Wants You to Stop Sucking, too, for a #Strawless Ocean

_The Wayfinding Wonder Who Sailed Around the Globe to Teach Us About Caring for Planet Earth

_Two Cousteaus Who Advance Jacques' Legacy

_This Hawaiian Chef Is Leading the Sustainable Food Movement

_Meet the Researcher Behind The Bahamas Plastic Movement

_This Singer-Songwriter Wants You to Fall in Love With the Sea

_Paper vs. Plastic Bags? Which Do More Damage to the Planet, Our Oceans, and Our Health?

Health & Wellness
Click on the links below to read my health reporting on everything from COVID and peanut allergies to "drunkorexia."

_ I've edited and managed the ultimate COVID resource since summer 2020, updating it regularly. This condition hub covers everything from transmission and symptom info to the latest research on long COVID, vaccines, boosters, and much more.

_What You Told Us About Medical Gaslighting

_A Leading Breast Cancer Doc Talks Health Disparities in Women of Color

_10 Revealing Truths About Chronic Sex

_Work Capitol Hill Like This Blood Clot Survivor (click link for all four installments)

_Tell Us How You Really Feel About COVID-19

_"I Had COVID-19. Here's What Happened." (Reported in mid-March 2020, very early days of the pandemic.)

_Helping Kids Cope With MS

_Meet a True Crohn's Disease Warrior

_Q&A With a Pediatric MS Nurse WHo Runs a Special Summer Camp

_Developments in Peanut Allergy Desensitization Therapy (pgs. 25–26)

_Medications, Treatments, and Habits for Migraine

_The Dangers of Sugar Consumption in Kids (pg. 26)

_Why Mediation Apps Are All the Rage

_Have You Shared Your Bucket List With Your Doctor? (pg. 19)

_The Stigma of Alzheimer's May Prevent Its Cure

_The Long-Term Health Effects of Toxic Stress in Childhood (pg. 25)

_Is "Drunkorexia" Really a Thing? (pg. 30)

_PTSD in Everyday People
(pg. 15)

_Music Therapy for the Mind and Body (pg. 17)

_Depression and Early Death in Women (pg. 13)

_Mental Health Myths
(pgs. 14–15)

_The Serious Health Risks of Unemployment

_Sedentary Teens May Just Need More Sleep

_Do Online Therapy Sites Really Work?

_What Is Coercive Control?

_New Brain Gains in Alzheimer's Research

_Weighty Matters

_Mission to Mars: Keeping Astronauts Healthy (pg. 14)

_Toxic Office = Poor Health

_New Research Shows Fitter Kids Make Smarter Students

_Health Heroes

_Jamie Oliver's School Lunch Revolution

_Does Your Family's Genetic History Define Your Future Health? (pg. 22)

_Taking a Shot at
Anti-Vax Beliefs

_Holiday Spoils

_7 Tips for Female Docs Who Also Want to Start a Family

_Your Pet's Health

_Tips for Adopting a Rescue Pet

_First-Ever WebMD Health Heroes (an ongoing editorial franchise)

Immersive Health
Click on the links below for my multimedia work, some of it award-winning:

_ A Multi-Cultural Guide to Managing Metastatic Breast Cancer

_ Young & Chronic: Crohn's Edition

_ Young & Chronic: Uterine Fibroids Edition

_The Obesity_Chronic Disease Connection: a Special Report

Healthy Tech
Click on the links below to read my reporting covering the intersection of digital technology and health.

_Parenting in the AI Age
(pgs. 23–24)

_Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: What's on the Horizon? (pg. 19)

_How to Fight Narcissism in a Selfie-Obsessed World (pg. 29)

_Why We're All Digital Addicts (pg. 14)

_Managing Kids & Online Video Games

_Teens & Tech

_Can Your Kid's Cell Phone Cause Cancer?

_Cyber Safety for Kids

_Why You Should Ban Smartphones at Your Kid's Slumber Party

Healthy Parenting
Click on the links below to read about health issues that are affecting today's kids, from fat-shaming to vaccine needs.

_The Importance of Play

_Why Guns in the Home Should Be a Parent's Biggest Safety Concern

_When Millennial Adults Move Back Home: a Parents' Guide

_Is Your Teen Up to Date on Important Vaccines?

_Don't Fat-Shame Girls

_The Emotional Challenges Blended Families Face

_Kids: The Collateral Damage of Divorce (pg. 25)

_Kids and "Cutting"

_How to Battle Obesity in Kids

_Toxic Kid Friendships

_Why Your Teen Needs More Sleep

_On the Road With Young Drivers

_Help Your Kids Excel in Sports

_How to Talk to Your Teen

_Is Your Daughter Going Through Early Puberty?

_Guns & Playdates

_More on Guns & Playdates

_Zero Hellfire in My Home

_5 Things to Tell Your "Loser" Kid

_Judy Blume's Books Continue to Inspire Kids

Healthy Lifestyle
Click on the links below for travel stories, dog tales, and more.

_Ocean Heroes

_Have You Seen My Dog?

_Ruby: The Rest of the Story

_How to Love a Dog Without Losing Your Heart

_The Great Escape: Traveling With Little Kids

_New Kids On the Block

_Three Cities for a Song

_How "Reality Bites" Accurately Predicted the Future of Gen X

_Sample Washington Flyer cover: Leonardo DiCaprio, whom I booked as EIC for first-ever "Green" Issue

Musings & More
Click on the links below for my political rants, pop culture takedowns, mommy blog posts, and more.

_On the Male Response
to #MeToo

_On Louis C.K. & "Exposed"
Toxic Masculinity

_Our Al Franken Problem

_Too. Much. Information.

_Dear Madonna: We Aren't Ageist—You Are

_My Facebook Freeze

_How the Band Haim
Rocked My World

_Facing Aging With
(Tough) Love

_On Mothers & Daughters

_It's Your Daughter's Turn

_Better Late (A Lesson From My Long-Lost Father)

_The Death of Sexy?

_Marriage Equality: The Reverend Wore Pink Pumps

_Do You Ever Consider
the Kid You Once Bullied?

_Lean In to Life

_The Women of "Mad Men"
Are the Characters We'll Most Miss

_Why TV Land's "Younger" Is a #MissedOpportunity

_6 Pithy Parental Comebacks I Learned From My Mother

_The Anti-Betty Draper Letter to My Girls

_Don Draper Did Do Coke

_The Day My Daughter's Lovey Went Missing

_Are You A Myers-Briggs School Mom?

_11 Books & Films That Make Us Bawl Like Little Babies

_That Stranger Danger
Video Is Short on Facts

_Loving Tips for Grieving
the Family Pet

_Lockdown Drills Are the Least We Can Do to Protect Our Kids

_Joan Rivers: Mother
of Invention

_In Defense of Helicopter Parents

_What If You Knew What Your Spouse Would Look
Like in 60 Years?

_Yes.

_Portrait of a Woman

_Your Real Best Friend

_My collected writing for The Mid, now merged into Scary Mommy

Travel Guide
_Author of Frommer's
WASHINGTON, D.C. DAY BY DAY (2007)

CV
_My professional experience

Paintings
_25 Years
_Father and Son
_Portrait of Kristine
_Girls at the Diner, 7 a.m.
_Dive
_Plum Is 2
_Embrace
_Toes
_Ophelia
_Nancy's Mother
_A Dog I Loved
_Footrest
_Woman's Best Friend

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2007–2024

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