Pamela Weintraub

Pamela Weintraub is a literary and investigative science journalist. She is a senior editor at Discover magazine and the author of numerous books, including Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic (St. Martin's Press, 2008), a groundbreaking investigation into the medical history, patient experience, and brutal political war over Lyme disease. Previously she was editor-in-chief of OMNI (where she worked for 16 years in a range of editorial roles), consulting editor at Psychology Today, and executive editor at MAMM: Women, Cancer and Community. She has covered science, health, and biomedicine for the national press for 25 years. She is the author of 16 books for major publishers, on topics from emergency medicine and parenting to memory and bioterrorism. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. To learn more about her, visit www.astralgia.com

Her PT blog is Contested Diseases.