Carol Cruzan Morton

Freelance journalist
Belmont, Mass. USA
ccmorton(at)nasw.org

Science writer
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Mass. USA
617-432-3121
carol_morton(at)hms.harvard.edu

SAGE Crossroads

The Golden Age of Parenting, 28 February 2005.
Less Medical Care Better for Health, 20 December 2004.
Mighty Mitochondria, 13 September 2004.
Endless Summer No Picnic for Seniors, 6 July 2004.
The Price of Privacy? 25 May 2004.
Island of the Mysterious Brain Disease, 26 January 2004.
It's Not Age, 13 October 2003.
Health, Happiness, and the Older Driver, 2 June 2003.

San Francisco Chronicle

Mysterious Submarine Turns Out to be Flatulent Herrings, 9 October 2004.
Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Science's Improbable Research, 6 October 2003.
This is Not Your Father's Birds and Bees: Recent Research Challenges Notion of Female Monogamy, 17 Feb. 2003.
Science: Dubious Achievements: Not what Mt. Nobel Would have Prized: The Ig Awards Honor Results Nobody Needs, 6 Oct. 2002.

He Supplies Ammunition to Fight Commercialization of Science, 30 December 2003.
Flying Fox Bats Linked to Disease, 9 December 2003.
Doctors Wary of Partial-Birth Abortion Law, 28 October 2003.
Keeping Older Drivers (Safely) Behind the Wheel, 5 August 2003.
Curves Enticing Women Who Hate To Exercise, 22 July 2003.
Purifiers Don't Guarantee Clean Air, 1 April 2003.
Girls Gone Wild, 11 March 2003.
Teeth Whitening: What Works, What Doesn't, 4 Feb. 2003.
Ig Nobel Awards Show 'Human Side of Science,' 8 Oct. 2002.
MIT Researcher has Routine Behavior on the Brain, (PDF) 11 June 2002.
Should You Enroll in a Clinical Trial? New Book Offers Guidance, 14 May 2002.
Ordinary People Learn Fitness Tests Don't Lie (also known as the Bod Pod article), 15 Jan. 2003.
Which is More Dangerous, Aging or Inactivity? 2 Oct. 2002.
Ig Nobel Night Includes Nuptials, 9 Oct. 2001.
Secrets of the Grapes: When the Nobel Pinot Noir Met the Commoner Gouais Blanc, the Offspring was a King: Chardonnay, 14 Aug. 2001.
A Mother and Child Union: Trading Cells, 8 May 2001.

Alzheimer Research Forum News

Dietary Toxins and Neurodegenerative Diseases-Guam Revisited, 10 November 2003.

Swarthmore Bulletin alumni magazine.

Save the Males, Sept. 1999.

Baltimore Sun

Rare brain illness holds wider clues;  Mystery: Scientists say a disease that afflicts natives of Guam could hold the key to treating similar ailments such as Alzheimer's disease, 29 December 2003.

Science

Companies, Researchers Battle Over Data Access, 10 Nov. 2000, p. 1063. (Password required)

ScienceNOW

Keeping a Closer Eye on Financial Conflicts, 1 Nov. 2000. (Password required).
Clinical Trial Causes University-Corporation Tribulations, 1 Nov. 2000. (Password required).
Why Young Brains Lack Caution, 11 June 1998.
Counting the World's Raindrops, Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 21 Nov. 1997.
Humming Through the Check-Out Line, Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 12 Nov. 1997.
A Big Brake for Mars Surveyor, Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 3 Nov. 1997.
Chicken Plucking, Insect Scraping, Etc., 14 Oct. 1997.
Kidney Gene Linked to Breast Cancer? Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 22 July 1997.
Clinical Research Trials and Tribulations, 11 July 1997.
Firefly Light Turns Predators' Stomachs? Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 8 July 1997.
Drumming to Their Own Beat, Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 23 June 1997.
Warding Off TB, Academic Press Daily InScight (produced by ScienceNOW), 10 June 1997.

Annals of Internal Medicine

U.S. Dialysis Survival Strategy, 15 March 1998.

ScienceWriters

This Science Story Started with a Bigger Question, Fall 2002. (Password required).
Science-In-Society Awards: Reporting Why Science Matters, Winter 2000-01, p. 1. (Password required).
NEJM Controversy Continues Apace, Fall 1999. (Password required).
Ouster of Editor at NEJM Contains Lesson for Others, Summer 1999. p. 1. (Password required).
Institute PIOs Try A New Tack -- Symbiotic PR, Spring/Summer 1998. (Password required).
If It Breeds, It Leads--And Other Good News From the Science Front, Winter 1997-98, p. 20. (Password required).
How To Find Jobs On The Internet, Summer 1997. (Password required).
New Media: New Markets, New Jobs New Technique for reporting the Facts, Winter 1996-97, p. 21. (Password required).
In How Many Ways do Science Writers Love the Internet? Summer 1996, p.21. (Password required)

The Scientist

Online Access is Profoundly Changing Scientific Publishing, 31 March 1997.
Technology Advances Marking Milestones in Microscopy, 20 January 1997.