I haven't been here in a while, but I'm excited to share my first piece for @FortuneMagazine! Some experts envision a future where controversial weight loss drugs are used to extend life expectancy. fortune.com/well/article/o…
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Jessica Firger
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Jessica Firger
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I write, report and edit all things health! Priors: @CNN @Newsweek @cbsnews @EverydayHealth @DrOz @UnionSqandCo
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Temmuz 2010
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Special big thank you to @UnionSqandCo and @jessfirger. Couldn't be more thrilled to be working with this fabulous team.
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@DinaGachman How did I miss this! Thanks, Dina! Thrilled to edit your book.
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I am once again thinking about this insane wine and egg diet published in vogue in the 70s
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Now this was a fun one. Don’t miss out on my amazing karmic full-circle chat with @jessfirger
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spoti.fi/3Qw4oFl @jessfirger is a health journalist and editor, and on this week's #OutofPatients she talks with @MatthewZachary about #COVID's impact on health coverage, how we're responding to it becoming endemic, and her personal experience recovering from the virus.
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Oh, hi, I was a guest on @MatthewZachary’s podcast #OutofPatients. Thanks for the great chat! healthpodcastnetwork.com/episodes/out-o…
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This piece is really something else. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath? newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
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The secret to our survival? The unfathomably tiny creatures that quietly circulate all around us bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @BW
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The success rate of a misoprostol induced abortion before 70 days is 87% and your medical team cannot tell if you had a self-managed abortion
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Live a life where the decisions you make don't require barricades around your workplace.
#RoeVWade
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Right now: Barricades are up around the Supreme Court building, just minutes after reports from Politico were leaked indicating SCOTUS has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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I'm so looking forward to working on @DrSprankle's smart and hilarious book, my third acquisition at the newly relaunched Union Square & Co.
Eric Sprankle, PsyD@DrSprankle
Good News Announcement! With much thanks to my wonderful agent @MichaelBourret and editor @jessfirger, my debut book, DIY: THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF MASTURBATION will be published by @UnionSqandCo! It’ll be a perfect gift for your former youth pastor.
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I met Judy Blume in Key West recently (she owns an excellent bookstore there!) and her philosophy about whether books are age-appropriate is this:
If a kid isn't ready for the book, she will put it down!
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“I want to stay protected...I think it’s also pretty obvious that this is going to be the norm, and it might just be like in a month or two," one man told @CNN. “Why wait until it’s hard to get appointments again?” cnn.com/2021/08/11/hea…
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every single ad person at the lipstick company is in a frantic meeting
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“It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless.” nytimes.com/2021/04/19/wel…
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@amalt Best of luck on whatever is next for you. I’m glad we had the opportunity to work together!
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The pandemic has somehow disappeared from my Twitter feed. This really is an unbelievable day
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