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Recent projects

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* The everything drugs. An Economist cover story about how GLP drugs work for a range of conditions and not just because of weight loss. October 2024. 

* BBC Radio 4 Documentary: Mila's legacy. 2024 A heartbreaking story of love and hope. With Sandra Kanthal. Winner of 2024 AAAS Kavli Award.

* Eat, Inject, Repeat. An Economist cover story about the arrival of GLP drugs and how they could end obesity. March 2023.

* The long haul of long covid. A BBC World Service documentary with Sue Nelson of Boffin Media. 2023

* How to fix a brain. An Economist Technology Quarterly. 2022. Ten pages on the brightening future of treatments for the brain. 

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Older projects

Pandemic covers 2020 & 2021

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Other recent professional highlights

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MOTHER OF INVENTION

February 2018

Her children have made waves with fast cars and slow food. Maye Musk tells Natasha Loder how she produced a family of entrepreneurs

ROSALIND FRANKLIN—HER DISCOVERIES ARE MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

September 16th, 2020

100 YEARS after the British scientist Rosalind Franklin's birth, The Economist’s health policy editor Natasha Loder explores her scientific achievements—from photographing the double helix of DNA to discovering the first three-dimensional structure of a virus. Mini-doc. Runtime: 27 min

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A GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN ATTITUDES TOWARDS CANNABIS IS UNDER WAY

August 2019

The legalisation of the drug for medicinal use is paving the way for a broader liberalisation

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LONG-HAUL PLIGHT—THE LINGERING MEDICAL SYMPTOMS CAUSED BY COVID-19

August 2020

Some victims of covid-19 continue to suffer from the illness many weeks and months after falling ill. What can be done to help these “long-haulers”?

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MILLIONS OF WOMEN ARE MISSING OUT ON HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY

December 2019

This much-maligned treatment could save many lives

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