Rachael Robertson
Rachael Robertson is an enterprise and investigative health reporter at MedPage Today whose coverage tracks how medicine, public health, and culture shape one another, with particular depth on ob/gyn research and medical misinformation. She works across print, data, and audio, and is the creator and host of the biweekly health news podcast MedPod Today, which gives listeners deeper context on major healthcare stories. Her reporting often follows the real-world impact of research on patients’ lives and public policy, connecting individual experiences to broader questions of access, trust, and the quality of evidence. She also brings experience from freelancing across health and science outlets, which informs a beat that moves easily between clinical detail, public health systems, and the way popular narratives influence care.
Ob/gyn research and reproductive health access
Robertson leads MedPage Today’s coverage of ob/gyn news and research, treating reproductive health as both a clinical and social beat. Her reporting includes work on rising alcohol use in pregnancy drawn from federal surveillance data, highlighting how behavior trends intersect with maternal and fetal risk and the messaging patients receive from clinicians and public health agencies. In other outlets, she has written about finding affordable birth control and emergency contraception at a time when insurance coverage and policy changes can make access unpredictable, underscoring the practical steps people can take to navigate shifting benefits and price points. Across these stories, she uses guidelines, survey data, and patient-facing information to show how evidence translates - or fails to translate - into everyday decisions about contraception, pregnancy, and preventive care.
Alcohol, chronic disease, and public health narratives
Alcohol and chronic disease are recurring threads in Robertson’s health coverage, often framed through both epidemiology and personal narrative.
She has reported on research linking even modest drinking to cognitive decline, drawing out how newer data complicate long-held assumptions about “safe” levels of alcohol use and what that means for clinicians advising patients. In a separate piece, she traced how a public figure’s experience with diabetes influenced his political priorities, connecting an individual health journey to policy decisions around food environments, preventive care, and chronic disease management.
These stories sit within a broader interest in public health, where she uses research findings and real-world examples to show how risk, behavior, and policy interact over time.
Medical misinformation, AI, and public trust
Robertson’s investigative work frequently examines medical misinformation and the forces that shape public trust in health and science.
She has hosted MedPod Today episodes focused on the “medical misinformation mess,” exploring how false or misleading health claims spread, what they mean for clinicians at the bedside, and how professional societies and platforms respond. Her beat also extends into artificial intelligence and new research models, including coverage of intensive research “boot camps” and sessions on how large language models are being used to triage care, where she probes both the promise and the potential for misuse.
She regularly connects these topics to pop culture and media narratives, showing how entertainment, social platforms, and emerging technologies can either reinforce or undermine trust in medical expertise.
MedPod Today and cross-format reporting
Audio is central to Robertson’s reporting toolkit, and MedPod Today is the clearest expression of that work.
She ideated and launched the podcast, and continues to host and produce episodes that build on MedPage Today’s reporting, inviting colleagues and sources to unpack the week’s biggest healthcare stories in greater detail. Episodes have covered topics such as compressed research programs that promise rapid journal submissions, shifting work-hour protections, and evolving definitions of measles deaths, using the conversational format to surface nuance that might sit behind a traditional news article. Her audio portfolio also includes collaborations with other producers and shows, reflecting training in both reporting and sound design, and giving her a way to reach audiences who follow health news through podcasts as much as through text.
Beyond MedPage Today, Robertson’s print, data, and audio pieces have appeared in outlets including Everyday Health, Gizmodo, and the Bronx Times, covering topics from women’s health and neurology to local health stories and culture. She has been recognized as an Uncovering Pathways to Better Health fellow by the Association of Health Care Journalists, underscoring her focus on how health systems, policy, and inequities intersect. Across formats, her work is defined by close engagement with research, a consistent interest in how people experience medicine in daily life, and a clear-eyed look at the narratives - accurate and otherwise - that shape public understanding of health.
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.