Carrie Arnold

Virginia

Independent public health reporter. 2022 @ReportingHealth national fellow, @KSJatMIT alum 20-21. Knitter and cyclist. Tell your cat I said pspspsps.

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The PPI Debate: Could Common Heartburn Drugs Be Harming Your Brain?

1 month ago | medshadow.org | Carrie Arnold

Fact Checked FACT CHECKED Most of George Grossberg’s patients have lists of medications as long as his arm. So it takes the geriatric psychiatrist no small amount of time to go through those lists when he evaluates new patients in his clinic at Saint Louis University. One type of medication that regularly pops up: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
How Much Is Your Kidney Worth?

Feb 13, 2025 | noemamag.com | Carrie Arnold

Credits Carrie Arnold is a contributing writer for Noema based in Virginia. The parenting manuals warned Elaine Perlman about the usual adolescent foibles. She had braced herself for piercings and purple hair, questionable friend choices and what she might say if she found drugs in any pockets. Not that her teenage son had raised any major concerns. Abie Rohrig was shy and kind, the sort of kid teachers describe as a delight to have in class. Abie had big ideas and the ambition to go after them.
The Fight to Free Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky Machines

Jan 23, 2025 | popularmechanics.com | Carrie Arnold

With a small click, Jshon Thomas connected himself to his life support. It was the last step in an hour-long process involving hundreds of steps that Thomas completed with the precision of an airline pilot prepping for a transcontinental flight.
60th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2025 - APF Staff

Jan 9, 2025 | aliciapatterson.org | Rania Abouzeid |Carrie Arnold |Josh Fine |Andrew Green

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2025 Fellowship Winners “The Past is Always Present: From the Killing Fields of Iraq to the Search for Solutions to Climate Change in Europe” “When Public Health Crises Collide: Kidney Disease, Dialysis and the Coming Climate Disaster” “How Gulf Money is Transforming Sports” “As the U.S. Retreats from Global HIV Aid, Does It Owe Life-Long Medicines to Those It Saved?” “The Challenges of Delivering Quality Early Education: One Center’s Odyssey” “Migrant Abuses...
This new tech makes communicating with your cat easier than ever

Oct 23, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Carrie Arnold

Sometimes, what my seven-year-old tabby cat Ophelia wants is obvious. Yodeling in front of her empty food bowl at dinnertime clearly indicates she’s at risk of imminent starvation. Other times, though, her meows are a complete and total mystery. That’s where Sergei Dreizin and Mark Boyes, computer scientists at Akvelon, a software engineering company based in Bellevue, Washington, say they can help.
How EU politics hold back one researcher’s quest to disease-proof rice

Oct 21, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Carrie Arnold

For over a decade, Vittoria Brambilla has been trying to improve crops’ quality, yields, and nutritional value. But the botany researcher at the University of Milan feared her studies might never see the light of day. Her initial problems were not scientific but political. Italian farmers had long sought a variety of short-grained arborio rice that was resistant to blast, a devastating fungal plant pathogen that destroys enough rice globally to feed 60 million people each year.
Innovations from Rural Communities Are Improving Health Care for All

Oct 15, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Carrie Arnold

This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. On a frigid winter evening about five years ago, a desperately ill young woman walked through the doors of the Sanford Bemidji Medical Center in rural Minnesota. Several weeks before, she had labored alone for hours in her tiny mobile home to bring a new baby into the world.
New research shows how your genes can identify risks of cancer

Sep 26, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Carrie Arnold

A woman’s inherited genes are a powerful indicator of what kind of breast cancer she might develop, a recent study reveals. Specifically, the genes dictate the visibility of epitopes, or proteins that decorate the outside of all cells, including cancerous ones. These epitopes function like a sign outside a business that identifies it as a bakery, law firm, or theatre. Conspicuous epitopes act like a flashing neon sign to attract the attention of patrolling immune cells.
What will the cats of the future look like?

Aug 6, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Carrie Arnold

Even though cats were domesticated relatively recently, their relationship with us has already changed them in surprising ways.
These wild animals experience natural highs. Here’s why.

Jul 31, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Carrie Arnold

‘Cocaine sharks’ have gone viral as scientists announced that some Brazilian sharpnose sharks living off the coast of Rio de Janeiro contain the illicit drug, which is often dumped into wastewater. While the phenomenon generates plenty of jokes, the situation is quite serious, says Sara Wyckoff, wildlife veterinarian for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.