Elizabeth Cohen
Elizabeth Cohen is a Peabody Award-winning medical journalist and contributor to NBC News and AtlanticLIVE. She is the author of “The Empowered Patient” and previously served as CNN’s senior medical correspondent, covering major health and crisis stories including Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, and the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
Feeling Good Can Close the Gap Between Health Intentions and Habits
Psychologist Beth Cabrera argues in her forthcoming book, “Being Well: A Positive Path to a Healthier, Happier You,” that the main obstacle to better health is not ignorance but the gap between intention and action. In a conversation with Elizabeth Cohen, Cabrera makes the case that lasting behavior change depends less on discipline and guilt than on designing daily environments, relationships, and routines so that healthy choices feel rewarding and become easier to repeat.
Politicized Science Policy Threatens America’s Biomedical Research Ecosystem
Former NIH director Elias Zerhouni argues in Disease Knows No Politics that American biomedical strength depends on a political compact now under strain: science can survive political fights only if evidence, peer review, civil-service independence, immigrant talent, and patient trust remain protected. Drawing on his path from Algeria to Johns Hopkins and the NIH, he warns that separate decisions on funding, universities, immigration, drug pricing, and grant rules can combine to weaken the research system that made the United States a biomedical leader.