Caroline Bologna
Caroline Bologna covers the intersection of health, parenting and everyday life, turning complex topics about bodies and behavior into clear, practical stories grounded in lived experience at HuffPost. She works as a senior reporter on the Life desk, with an emphasis on travel and culture that often connects back to wellness, family dynamics and the way people navigate stress and risk in daily routines. Her portfolio extends beyond news to service features and explainers that help readers understand emerging health concerns, long‑term inequalities and the emotional impact of those issues.
Health And Parenting In Everyday Family Life
Bologna’s recent reporting focuses on how health and parenting overlap, especially when new risks or diagnoses affect children and teenagers. In her coverage of “bigorexia” in kids and teens, she explains how muscularity-focused body image struggles can escalate into serious mental and physical health problems and sets out what parents need to know and do. Her piece on the Cornell 7 case uses a high‑profile custody and criminal matter to examine how fathers shape boys’ development, treating legal news as a lens on emotional guidance, stability and the long‑term impact of caregiving patterns.
Across this work she blends expert insight, legal context and family narratives to show how health, safety and parenting decisions play out beyond the clinic or courtroom.
Her health reporting is not limited to pediatrics. In earlier work at other outlets, she has written about painful conditions that disproportionately affect women and are under‑recognized, using a gender gap in diagnosis and treatment as a way to talk about systemic bias and the cost of delayed care. She often frames these stories around what people can expect, what symptoms matter, and how to navigate conversations with professionals, keeping the emphasis on practical steps rather than abstract policy.
That service approach runs through much of her family‑focused coverage, which tends to end with concrete guidance for parents or caregivers drawn from clinicians and researchers.
Body Image, Mental Health And Everyday Behavior
Bologna returns repeatedly to mental health and the ways everyday habits can either support or undermine wellbeing. The “bigorexia” piece sits within a broader interest in body image, media influence and perfectionism, especially in younger people who are responding to social pressures and online ideals. Directory summaries of her work highlight mental health and feminism among her repeat topics, as well as behavior‑focused stories like “Is The ‘Ostrich Effect’ Messing With Your Life? Here’s What To Do,” which looks at avoidance and denial as psychological patterns that carry health and financial consequences. In these stories she treats concepts from psychology and behavioral economics as practical tools, asking how people can change routines and thinking rather than simply naming diagnoses.
Her mental health coverage often threads through broader lifestyle reporting on work, relationships and personal finance, reflecting her background as a senior lifestyle journalist whose remit includes wellness and relationships.
She draws on therapists, psychologists and other experts to explain why certain patterns are so common and what small changes can reduce anxiety, improve communication or make health decisions less overwhelming. That emphasis on causes and coping mechanisms is a distinguishing feature: her health stories are rarely only about a single condition, but about how people feel, behave and adapt around that condition.
Travel, Culture And Lifestyle As Health Context
Alongside health and parenting, Bologna holds a senior reporter role in travel and culture at HuffPost Life, and she uses that beat to explore how movement, habits and environment affect wellbeing. She is frequently cited as a senior travel and culture journalist and a high‑status frequent flyer, and she writes pieces that unpack what experienced travelers pack, how they manage stress and how they stay comfortable while on the move.
Articles about what a platinum‑status traveler keeps in a carry‑on go beyond gear lists to show how planning, comfort, hygiene and sleep can make travel less taxing, implicitly connecting logistics to physical and mental health.
Her lifestyle portfolio also extends to home, relationships and personal finance, areas where she looks at how everyday decisions shape stress, security and satisfaction. Author information notes that her reporting spans home, wellness, relationships and money, and that travel is a particular enthusiasm, which aligns with the mix of service pieces and culture stories found in her archive.
This breadth gives her health coverage a wide context: stories about bodies and minds are anchored in the realities of family life, work pressures, cultural expectations and how people move through the world.
Career Profile And Reach
Bologna has been with HuffPost for years, progressing from early editorial roles into her current senior reporting position on the Life team.
Her author bio notes experience on a Parents team and then across HuffPost Life, with writing that covers home, wellness, relationships and personal finance in addition to travel and culture. She has also written for other outlets, with her work appearing at publications such as Mental Floss and Hollywood.com, and health features like her piece on a painful condition that affects women far more than men at BuzzFeed extend her focus on gendered health disparities beyond one masthead.
Aggregated profiles count thousands of bylines and list coverage across entertainment, health, arts and mental health, indicating a high volume of output and a steady presence in service‑oriented lifestyle journalism.
Across these roles, Bologna’s distinctive thread is health as lived experience: conditions, behaviors and emotional struggles are framed through parenting, travel, culture and money, then translated into expert‑grounded guidance that readers can act on.
4 more health journalists.
Aislinn Antrim
Aislinn Antrim is an associate editorial director at Pharmacy Times and a journalist who connects clinical advances, regulation, and the changing role of pharmacists. She writes pharmacy-centered health coverage on chronic disease therapeutics, specialty and oncology care, workforce pressures, and advocacy. Her reporting explains FDA actions, policy shifts, drug pipelines, and the real-world effects of new evidence on patient care and pharmacy practice. She often uses interviews and expert conversations to show how pharmacists improve adherence, manage side effects, navigate access and benefits, and coordinate care with prescribers. She also covers burnout, staffing strain, and the future of pharmacy practice, with an eye on how policy and economics shape work at the dispenser.
Alex Cabrero
Alex Cabrero is an Emmy award-winning KSL TV reporter who covers where health, safety and community life meet, always focused on how decisions and events affect everyday people. He has been with KSL since 2004, bringing long experience in breaking news, public service coverage and human-centered features. His beat includes public health, emergency response, technology, local infrastructure, environment and science, framed through community well-being and resilience. He reports on issues like mental health initiatives, law enforcement staffing, environmental hazards, rescues, wildfire detection tools, land-use fights and scientific discoveries, making technical and policy details clear for a general audience. He also produces many positive, everyday-life features on families, veterans, farmers, sports and local traditions. His style is direct and conversational, often built around a central person or family whose experience carries the story across TV, digital and social platforms.
Alexandra Frost
Alexandra Frost is a freelance journalist and content marketing writer who turns expert-backed health and family guidance into clear, practical service stories. She covers consumer health, wellness, nutrition, preventive care, medical research, parenting, kids’ mental health, education, products, and lifestyle. Her reporting explains concerns such as inflammation, urinary symptoms, fiber, lung cancer screening, pain treatment, mobility, family dynamics, children’s technology use, and school readiness. She profiles clinicians and scientists, connects research to everyday decisions, and focuses on what readers should watch for, ask, or change. Frost currently writes across multiple outlets, including Good Housekeeping, Cincinnati Magazine, Wirecutter, Popular Science, Success, Healthline, Parents, Women’s Health, Reader’s Digest, Today’s Parent, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, TIME, Consumer Reports, Business Insider, and National Geographic. She also works as a freelance editor, media consultant, and content strategist.
Alexandra Pattillo
Alexandra Pattillo is a freelance journalist who pairs rigorous health and science reporting with intimate accounts of patients’ lives. She covers health, science and wellness for the BBC and other major outlets, including National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Outside, CNN and Inverse. Her beat includes eating disorders, women’s health, perinatal mental health, brain health, youth sports, concussion, long-term Covid symptoms, attention, habits and behavioral science. She reports on emerging treatments such as psychedelic-assisted therapy for anorexia, testing evidence, safety and relapse risk. She explains complex research in plain language and examines how it shapes everyday choices. Her reporting uses in-depth interviews with patients, families, clinicians, researchers and coaches. Through the BBC’s Health Gap column, she also covers stigma, unequal access to care and gaps between lived experience and standard medical pathways.