Barbara Boughton    Medical & Lifestyle Writer

Welcome to my Web site 

I'm an award-winning freelance writer and editor, specializing in writing and editing about medicine, health, and lifestyle.

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 and journals over the last 17 years. I've also helped write several consumer health books and served as editor and project manager for several medical books for clinicians.

With more than a dozen journalism awards, I'm also a published essayist and poet.

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

  

What's New?

  My Upcoming Book

Reduce Your Cancer Risk  

 

My newest project is a preventive health book about reducing risk for cancer, co-authored with Michael Stefanek, PhD, of 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. 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 what constitutes  "cancer quackery" and how to  decipher cancer news in the media - and tell the difference between cancer cures and cancer "hype." Look for it in 2009, published by Demos Medical Publishing.