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Most Discussed Publications:

New York Times

The Atlantic

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Psychology Today

Mirror Touch: Notes From a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain

12 Principles for Raising a Child With ADHD

A Body Undone: Living On After Great Pain

A Covid Guide to Back to School: Questions and Answers for Parents and Students

A Family Guide to Covid: Questions and Answers for Parents Grandparents and Children

A Fatal Inheritance

A Kiss Before You Go

A Mind Unraveled

A Shot to Save the World

A Spirit of Charity: Restoring the Bond Between America and Its Public Hospitals

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

Abandoned at Birth

Adrenal Transformation Protocol

After the Crash

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared

Almost a Psychopath

Almost Addicted

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Medication Changes Your Mind

Am I Dying: A Complete Guide to Your Symptoms and What to Do Next

American Sirens

An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering

An Elegant Defense

Anti-Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope

Associated Press

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlas of Men

Beautiful Trauma

Beginning With the End

Believing In Magic: The Psychology of Superstition

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital

Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

Big Liars

Bleeding Hearts: A True Story of Alzheimer’s Family and the Other Woman

Blood on the Stone

Body of Truth: How Science History and Culture Drive Our Obsession With Weight and What We Can Do About It

Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Broke: Patients Talk About Money With Their Doctor

Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs and the Limits of Personal Responsibility

Cancer Sucks But You’ll Get Through It

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Chemicals Without Harm: Policies for a Sustainable World

Chicago Tribune

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal

Climate Change and Human Behavior

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hypothyroidism in Adults

Combat Stress Injury: Theory Research & Management

Concussion Rescue: A Comprehensive Program to Heal Traumatic Brain Injury

Conquer the Clutter: Strategies to Identify Manage and Overcome Hoarding

Contagion: Plagues Pandemics and Cures From the Black Death to COVID-19 and Beyond

Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesiology

Cracking Health Costs: How to Cut Your Company’s Health Costs and Provide Employees Better Care

Crazy-Stressed: Saving Today’s Overwhelmed Teens With Love Laughter and the Science of Resilience

Creating a Beautiful Mess: The Essential Experiences for a Joyful Childhood

Crowded Out

Curious Behavior: Yawning Laughing Hiccuping and Beyond

Dad’s Maybe Book

Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy

Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End

Diamonds

Did You Just Eat That?

Discover Yourself

Dog Medicine: The Unbreakable Bond Between One Woman and the Dog That Saved Her Life

Don’t Let Them Kill You: 10 Rules for Navigating Chronic Illness In the Age of Infinite Intervention

Dr. Lily Robinson Thriller Series

Drinking Drug Use and Addiction in the Autism Community

Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception

Emotional Freedom

Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action

Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Happy Healthy and Fulfilling Lives

ESPN

Every Deep-Drawn Breath

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Fasting Cancer

Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar Processed Food Obesity and Disease

Father Time

Fight Your Insurance Company and Win

Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle With Addiction

Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey Into the Light

Flight of the Rondone

Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

Food Shaman: The Art of Quantum Food

Forgotten Girl

Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Gain Without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Girl in the Water

Gluten Exposed: The Science Behind the Hype and How to Navigate to a Healthy Symptom-Free Life

Good and Cheap: How to Eat Well on $4 a Day

Growth

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment

He’s Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe in Himself

Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine

Healing The Traumatized Brain

Health Attitude: Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare

Holding the Net: Caring For My Mother On the Tightrope of Aging

Homesickness

Honest Aging

Hope After Suicide: One Woman’s Journey From Darkness to Light

Hot and Bothered

Huffington Post

Human Kind: A Hopeful History

I Cu Copper

I Had A Miscarriage

If I Croak: The Things You Should Know

If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

If This Is A Gift Can I Send It Back?

iGen: Why Today’s Superconnected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious More Tolerant Less Happy and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

Immortality Inc.: Renegade Science Silicon Valley Billions and the Quest to Live Forever

Immortality, Inc.

Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

In Her Own Sweet Time: Egg Freezing and the New Frontiers of Family

Infidelity: Why Men and Women Cheat

Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy Paternity and Love

Inside Your Therapist’s Mind: How a Psychotherapist Thinks and Why It Works

Invisible Girls: Speaking the Truth About Sexual Abuse

Jawbreaker

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

Kitty Genovese: the Murder the Bystanders the Crime That Changed America

Knocked Down

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists Hippies and Yuppies and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

Lasting Impact: One Team One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football

Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness

Life Falls Apart But You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos

Listening For What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

Look Both Ways

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions

Love in the Archives

Love Mondays

Magic Pill

Magnetic Partners

Making Habits Breaking Habits

Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace

Maternal Ambivalence

Media Moms and Digital Dads

Micro Skills

Midlife Eating Disorders: Your Journey to Recovery

Mind Magic

Mind Your Gut

Mirror Touch: Notes From a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain

Music For Women (Survivors of Violence)

My Age of Anxiety: Fear Hope Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind

Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy But Doesn’t What Shouldn’t Make You Happy But Does

National Poll on Healthy Aging

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

New York Times

Nose Over Toes

On Becoming A Healer: The Journey From Patient Care to Caring About Your Patients

On Being a Difficult Patient

On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s

Once Upon A Time We Ate Animals

Oncology Informatics: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer

One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child and the Joy of Being One

One By One By One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems

Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Others’ Milk: The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding

Out Of the Darkness

Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Healthcare

Pathological

Patient Care: Death and Life In the Emergency Room

Perilous Medicine

Phage

Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines

Physician Suicide Letters Answered

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

Pleased to Meet Me

Poisoner In Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Pretty Sick: A Beauty Guide for Women With Cancer

Processed Food Addiction: Foundations Assessment and Recovery

Psychology Today

Refeathering the Empty Nest: Life After the Children Leave

Resilience

Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets One Helping Hand at a Time

Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers Big Pharma and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care

Saving Women’s Hearts

Science Magazine

Scream: Chilling Adventures and the Science of Fear

Slay the Giant: The Power of Prevention In Defeating Heart Disease

Sleep Paralysis

Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night’s Sleep

Slim By Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life

Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician’s Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine

So Young America Life Sciences

Soda Science

Somebody Up There Hates You

Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight For Breath and Justice in Appalachia

Sound Rage: A Primer of the Neurobiology and Psychology of a Little Known Anger Disorder

Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle managing of American medicine

Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in Science History & Surprising Secrets of STDs

Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient’s Guide to Communication in the Exam Room

Teeth: The Story of Beauty Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World

The Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate Holistic Approach to Recovery

The Age of Genomes

The Anti-Viral Gut

The Apothecary’s Wife

The Arm: Inside the Billion Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

The Atlantic

The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Policy Making and Patient Care

The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

The Big Unlock: Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value Based Healthcare Era

The Black Angels

The Body Myth: Women and the Pressure to be Perfect

The Book of Awesome

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries From the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

The Calendar Diet

The Canadian Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine

The Chronic Cough Enigma

The Committee of Sleep: How Artists Scientists and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving—And How You Can Too

The Crispr Generation: The Story of the World’s First Gene-Edited Babies

The Digital Doctor: Hope Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

The Empath Survival Guide

The Face of Emotion: How Botox Affects Mood and Relationships

The Fast 800

The Flight

The Forever Witness

The Gene Therapy Plan: Taking Control of Your Genetic Destiny With Diet and Lifestyle

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Genius of Women

The Good Sleeper: The Essential Guide to Sleep For Your Baby and You

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War On Cancer

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

The Intuitive Parent: Why the Best Thing For Your Child Is You

The Little Couple

The Living Room: A Lung Cancer Community of Courage

The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century

The Midwife of Hope River

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future

The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy

The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting

The New Rules of Running

The New Yorker

The Obesity Paradox: When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

The Panic Years: Dates Doubts and the Mother of All Decisions

The Patient the Doctor and the Bill Collector: A Medical Debt Survival Guide

The People’s Hospital

The Pritikin Edge

The Prodigy’s Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent

The Promise and Peril of CRISPR

The Provident Prepper: A Common Sense Guide to Preparing for Emergencies

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Imposter Syndrome and How to Thrive In Spite of It

The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens and The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens

The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood Memory and Behavior After Brain Injury

The Truth: An Eye-Opening Odyssey Through Love Addiction Sex Addiction and Extraordinary Relationships

The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet: Smart Simple Science-Based Strategies for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

The Unclaimed

The Undefeated Mind

The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression One Small Change at a Time

The Vaccine Race: Science Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

The Wall Street Journal

The Woman With the Cure

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The Year After: A Memoir

Think Big

To Dye For

Touch: The Science of Hand Heart and Mind

Toxic Relationship Recovery

Treating ADHD in Children and Adolescents

Two Eggs Two Kids: An Egg Donor’s Account of Friendship Infertility and Secrets

Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Up To Speed

Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection

Voices in the Band: A Doctor Her Patients and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed From Doomed to Hopeful

Waiting for an Echo THE MADNESS OF AMERICAN INCARCERATION

Waiting For An Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

We’ve Got This

We’ve Got You Covered

Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

What if Fungi Win?

When Crisis Strikes: Five Steps to Heal Your Brain Body and Life From Chronic Stress

When Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon

When Will My Grown Up Child Grow Up? Loving and Understanding Your Emerging Adult

Who Will Take Care of Me When I’m Old?

Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food

Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World

Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age

Withdrawal.net

Within Reason

Working Remotely: Secrets to Success for Employees on Distributed Teams

Working With Bitches: Identifying Eight Types of Office Mean Girls and How to Deal With Them

Yahoo Sports

You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition Experience Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease

Your Blood Never Lies and Cracking the Metabolic Code

Your Life Depends On It

Zero Waste Home