Dr. Diana Rangaves
Dr. Diana Rangaves is a pharmacist and health writer who uses clinical expertise to answer practical questions about medications, diagnostics, and everyday care for readers of Blavity’s health coverage. A board-certified pharmacist with experience in senior care, mental health, and finance, she grounds her reporting in evidence drawn from clinical research and professional guidelines. Her stories typically start from a question the audience is asking - such as how SSRIs work, whether an MRI can show nerve damage, or if “protein maxxing” is more than a viral diet trap - and then walk readers through the medical details step by step.
Medication and mental health explainers
In her explainer on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, she breaks down what SSRIs are, how they modulate serotonin in the brain, and why they became first-line treatments for depression and anxiety. She spends significant space on side effects such as emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction, weight changes, and withdrawal symptoms, translating dense clinical reviews into plain language while keeping the nuance intact.
She also highlights regulatory warnings for younger patients and emphasizes working closely with a prescriber on dosing, tapering, and alternative therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy. Across this coverage, the pharmacist perspective is clear: she focuses less on abstract mental health narratives and more on how specific medications behave in the body, how risks are monitored, and what informed, collaborative decision-making looks like.
Imaging, injuries, and diagnostic decisions
Her piece on whether an MRI scan will show nerve damage explains the physics of magnetic resonance imaging and what clinicians can and cannot see on standard scans.
She distinguishes between identifying structural causes of nerve problems - such as tumors, scar tissue, or compression - and diagnosing conditions like small fiber neuropathy, where conventional MRI has documented limitations. The article walks through scenarios in which MRI is ordered for unexplained numbness, weakness, or vision changes, and stresses the need to combine imaging with neurological exams and advanced techniques to reach a full diagnosis. As a medical expert quoted in Blavity’s breakdown of Patrick Mahomes’ ACL tear, she similarly focuses on imaging’s role in confirming ligament injuries and guiding rehabilitation decisions for high-level athletes.
Together, these pieces show her tendency to demystify diagnostic technology, outlining both its power and its blind spots so readers can understand why doctors order tests and what the results actually mean.
Nutrition, brain health, and viral wellness trends
Her brain health nutrition guide links everyday food choices to cognitive performance, using studies from JAMA Neurology and public health agencies to underline how berries, leafy greens, beans, fatty fish, and moderated caffeine intake support long-term memory and productivity. She connects concepts like inflammation, blood sugar stability, and vascular health to practical habits, such as eating every three to five hours, building large green salads into the week, and limiting ultra-processed and heavily salted foods.
Within Blavity Health’s mission to serve Black communities with culturally relevant, expert-informed reporting, she situates this advice in the realities of brain fog, stress, and chronic disease risk that many readers face. Her analysis of high-protein diet trends and “protein maxxing” extends this work into viral wellness culture, testing whether social media claims align with evidence on metabolic health, kidney function, and sustainable nutrition.
Across nutrition and trend pieces, her distinguishing mark is an insistence on biochemical detail - what specific nutrients do, how they interact with aging and cognitive decline - without losing the plain, actionable tone of a service story.
Hands-on preventive care and chronic conditions
Her coverage of diabetic foot and nail care focuses on preventing serious infections through routine, at-home practices, from trimming techniques to monitoring for early signs of damage. She frames nail care as part of broader diabetes management and limb preservation, explaining how seemingly small injuries can escalate quickly when circulation and sensation are impaired. That emphasis on small, repeatable actions shows up elsewhere in her work, including guidance on keeping the home cool in extreme heat and sleep-related content for a home and lifestyle outlet, where comfort and safety intersect with health.
Taken together with her stated expertise in senior care and mental health, these topics paint a picture of a clinician-writer who is attuned to chronic conditions, aging, and the everyday routines that keep complications at bay.
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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.