For a catalog of Wadman’s reporting for Science, click here. Other featured articles and appearances are listed below.
September 19 2023: “Tuberculosis Was Horrible. They Did What They Could.” Wadman’s review of “The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis,” by Maria Smiolios. (The New York Times)
September 14, 2020: Hurry Up And Wait: The State Of The Race For A Coronavirus Vaccine. Wadman joins Jenn White, host of NPR’s 1A, to discuss the state of the race for a coronavirus vaccine.
August 23 2019: Book Review: “The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator,” by Timothy Winegard. (The Wall Street Journal)
March 13, 2019: The Latest Measles Outbreaks Are Leading To Legislative Changes. Wadman discusses vaccine politics with NPR’s Joshua Johnson on 1A
January 30, 2018: Book Review: “How to Achieve ‘The End of Epidemics’” Preventing the next major disease outbreak will require better health infrastructure, citizen activism—and $7.5 billion a year. By Meredith Wadman (The Wall Street Journal)
May 19, 2017: “Medicine’s Age of Wonders.” Wadman’s book review of William Rosen’s history of antibiotic development. (The Wall Street Journal)
May 17, 2017: “Traveling Abroad? Born Before 1989? You May Need a New Measles Vaccination.” (Slate)
March 2, 2017: “Henrietta Lacks Wasn’t the Only Woman Who Unknowingly Contributed to Medical History” (Slate)
February 22, 2017: “What the Hard Lessons of Rubella Teach Us About a Zika Vaccine” (Time)
December 7, 2015: “The truth about fetal tissue research” (Nature)
September 25, 2015: “No excuse for cruelty to goats raised for medical research” (The San Jose Mercury News)
February 13, 2015: “Doctors who minimize measles should lose their licenses” (Time)
August, 2014: “The cure for cancer that parents won’t use” (The Washington Post)
October, 2013: “How to Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prizes” (Time)
June, 2013: “Cell Division” (Nature)