Welcome to my Web site 

I'm an award-winning freelance medical and health writer and editor. I've won more than a dozen writing and journalism awards for my work.

As a writer and editor, I'm passionate about good health and wellness, conscientious medicine, and the art of the English language. I've written for dozens of consumer health magazines, trade medical magazines, Web sites for health clinicians and medical journals over the last 19 years. I also have expertise in writing advisory board reports for health communications and pharmaceutical companies. I've helped write several consumer health books and served as editor and project manager for several medical books for clinicians.

I'm also a published essayist and poet, and in my spare time I write home and design articles for national magazines.

Read Barbara's essay on How I Made It as a Science Writer on Associated Content. 

Barbara's new blog on medicine and freelance medical writing will feature tips on how to start a freelance medical writing career. Read it here.

My Web site: Voted one of 10 Best Writers' Web sites in 2009 by Writer's Digest!

 

  

 Read my new blog on medicine, health and freelance medical writing at www.writingonhealth.com. It presents viewpoints on important health issues, and tips on making a living as a freelance health writer. You can find it here.

  

And my new book is out!

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Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a

Healthier Life

 

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Reduce Your Cancer Risk is a  preventive health book about reducing risk for cancer, co-authored with Michael Stefanek, PhD, a researcher who focuses  on psychosocial and behavioral oncology and former director of the Behavioral Research Center at the American Cancer Society. It's a step-by-step guide on how to accurately assess your personal risk for cancer and take steps to definitively reduce that risk, co-published by Demos Medical Publishing and the American Cancer Society. The book discussess everything from using the Web for finding information about cancer risk to genetic counseling to the benefits of exercise, losing weight, nutrition and preventive medications.  The book includes personalized information for those with a family history of cancer as well as cancer survivors. It also discusses how to best  make behavioral changes to reduce your cancer risk. It can be ordered at the Demos Web site  and is also available on Amazon, Kindle and at major and independent bookstores.