Liz Szabo

Washington, D.C.

Health and Science Journalist at Freelance

Veteran health reporter, winner of Victor Cohn Award, @HeadlinerAwards, two @PressClubDC awards. Now writing for @NYTimes, @NBCNews, @SciAm, @AARP. She/her.

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Articles

Treating High Blood Pressure Reduces Dementia Risk

3 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Liz Szabo

Treating high blood pressure for as little as four years can cut the risk of dementia by 15 percent, according to clinical a trial results published on Monday in Nature Medicine. In the investigation, intensive blood pressure reduction also lowered the risk of mild cognitive impairment, an early stage of memory loss in people who can still live independently, by 16 percent.
Kennedy draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measles

2 weeks ago | nbcnewyork.com | Aria Bendix |Liz Szabo |Brandy Zadrozny
Kennedy draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measles

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix |Liz Szabo |Brandy Zadrozny

The measles outbreak in West Texas has reignited familiar anti-vaccine tactics: claiming there are readily available treatments for the disease while sowing doubt in the safety of vaccines. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday touted two particular medications that have not been shown to work as first-line treatments for measles: the steroid budesonide and the antibiotic clarithromycin.
Kennedy draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measles

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Aria Bendix |Liz Szabo |Brandy Zadrozny

2 hours agoIn response to US President Donald Trump's massive levies on China, Beijing has not only imposed reciprocal tariffs of its own on US goods. It has also stopped the export of valuable rare earths which are crucial for many high-tech US industries.
Transgender patients and their health providers fear worsening discrimination

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Liz Szabo

Kelly Houske was walking her dogs one morning when she developed stabbing pain in her back that brought her to her knees. Houske, who had survived her first heart attack only a year earlier, was worried she was experiencing a second. When Houske arrived at a local emergency room by ambulance, she hoped for compassionate treatment. Instead, her doctor appeared cold and kept his distance, standing in the doorway without ever entering her room, Houske said.
What should you do if you think you have the measles?

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Liz Szabo

As measles spreads across the country, sick children and adults are exposing other patients — including newborn babies — when they seek care at hospitals, pediatrician’s offices and urgent care centers. To help control the spread of measles, one of the medical experts say people with suspected cases should take precautions before visiting a doctor’s office or the emergency room.
Cáncer causado por VPH aumenta en algunos grupos de mujeres en EEUU

1 month ago | telemundoarizona.com | Liz Szabo

El cáncer de cuello uterino es uno de los más prevenibles, aunque investigaciones recientes sugieren que Estados Unidos está retrocediendo en los esfuerzos para detectar la enfermedad en sus etapas iniciales, cuando es más curable. Un nuevo estudio muestra que el porcentaje de mujeres que se sometieron a pruebas de detección de cáncer de cuello uterino disminuyó del 47% en 2019 al 41% en 2023.
Cancer caused by HPV is increasing in some women in the U.S.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Liz Szabo

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, although recent research suggests that the United States is backsliding in efforts to detect the disease early, when it is most curable. A new study shows that the percentage of women screened for cervical cancer fell from 47% in 2019 to 41% in 2023.
Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years

1 month ago | lacrossetribune.com | Liz Szabo

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people. Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades.
E-Cigs Are Still Flooding the US, Addicting Teens With Higher Nicotine Doses

1 month ago | dothaneagle.com | Liz Szabo

When the FDA first asserted the authority to regulate e-cigarettes in 2016, many people assumed the agency would quickly get rid of vapes with flavors like cotton candy, gummy bears, and Froot Loops that appeal to kids. Instead, the FDA allowed all e-cigarettes already on the market to stay while their manufacturers applied for the OK to market them.