Clancy Martin

May 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Clancy Martin

“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.

Feb 29, 2024 | elmundo.es | Clancy Martin

Dec 19, 2023 | harvardpublichealth.org | Clancy Martin

Filed Under Equity Policy & Practice Global Health Written by Harvard Public Health Staff Published December 19, 2023 Read Time 6 min Tens of thousands of you have visited Harvard Public Health this year to read our original reporting, opinion essays, book reviews, interviews, and more. Here’s a selection of your favorites—and ours. In the Louisiana bayou, Native American tribes are living in what journalist Barry Yeoman calls “a feedback loop of destruction.” Between decades of...

Oct 17, 2023 | harvardpublichealth.org | Clancy Martin |Maura Kelly

During the decade he spent working as a primary care doctor, Jeremy Nobel began to notice that loneliness could be a health problem. Patients who told him they felt isolated weren’t great about taking care of themselves; they missed appointments and skipped their medications.

Jul 17, 2023 | harvardpublichealth.org | Jennifer Vanderbes |Clancy Martin |Richard J. Tofel

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims, by Jennifer VanderbesIf Americans remember the tragedy of thalidomide, it’s as a story of the FDA and some courageous investigative reporters saving the United States from a public health disaster. The U.S. never approved the drug, which killed perhaps 10,000 children in Europe and caused thousands more to be born with serious birth defects.