Her coronavirus coverage has been featured on The Daily, the popular New York Times podcast, including episodes about a mysterious children’s inflammatory syndrome, the science of reopening schools and long COVID.
She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines, a Case Media Fellow at Indiana University, and she won a Knight Journalism Fellowship to spend the 2007–08 academic year at Harvard and MIT.
Her two-part series Mother’s Mind showed, through months of sensitive, difficult reporting, that maternal mental illness is much more common and varied than previously thought, and that health providers should be better at detecting trouble and ensuring women receive help.
Another investigative scoop revealed a prominent American scientist's interaction with the Chinese researcher whose highly controversial experiment produced the world's first gene-edited babies.
She has also written about offbeat topics: the sexism of office air conditioning systems, custom-fit condoms, floating islands, the world’s oldest shoe, and the place with the longest name in America: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
In July 2012, Imagine Entertainment optioned the book to develop a TV series with 20th Century Fox Television, and in August 2012 the medical drama was bought by CBS.