News and Features:

WebMD: Canceled HRT Trial Makes Women Anxious.  Recent announcements about hormone replacement therapy have women scared, but some doctors say an overreaction could lead to a rise in osteoporosis.

WebMD: Once Promising, the Future of HRT Dwindles. A government panel recommends against using hormone replacement therapy for disease prevention.

UPI news: Putting Cancer Risk in Perspective. A set of simple risk charts could help people put in perspective their risk of dying from cancer, smoking, and other diseases and conditions.

UPI news: Tree Rings Reveal Variable Climate. A new analysis of tree rings suggests temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have varied more over the past thousand years than previously thought, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science.

Hot Papers: (Researchers Sequence the Ubiquitous Pseudomonas aeruginosa): This regular feature in The Scientist summarizes highly-cited papers in the biomedical sciences, discussing the importance of the work and how it was done. This is a recent sample of one of mine.

NCNews, Spring 2002 (PDF file): I wrote three of the articles in this issue. Covering various aspects of forestry research based out of the U.S. Forest Service's North Central Research Station in St. Paul, Minnesota.

New Technology Shelves Software Distributor, Inc. Magazine: K.C. Aly discovered that the software packaging and distribution business doesn't always fit into a neat little box.

From Hypertension to Angina to Viagra, Modern Drug Discovery: How Pfizer's heart drug made millions of men glad.

Talking Science with Nonscientists: A Personal Communication, The Scientist: You can talk science to your mother or your significant other. No, really.

Essays:

Larger Than Life: A short essay about an encounter with a bull elk.