Articles by

Grace Browne

Amazon’s Creep Into Health Care Has Some Experts Spooked

Smith told WIRED that Amazon keeps patient health information confidential and secure in compliance with federal law...

Diverse Teams Are Needed to Save the Planet

Engineering has a white-male problem. Women make up just 14.5 percent of the engineering workforce in the...

The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context

In November 2021, when the psychedelics company Compass Pathways released the top-line results of its trial looking...

Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts

The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact,...

Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS

At the end of September, a spot of good news: Relyvrio, a new drug for treating amyotrophic...

The Problem With Mental Health Bots

Teresa Berkowitz’s experiences with therapists had been hit or miss. ”Some good, some helpful, some just a...

The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid

We all know a “Covid virgin,” or “Novid,” someone who has defied all logic in dodging the...

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?

In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small...