Robin Marantz Henig appears in the following:
I Felt Fine, But Tested Positive For The Coronavirus. What's That Really Mean?
Friday, December 18, 2020
Here's To Grown-Up Siblings And The Ties That Bind
Thursday, November 28, 2019
How A Psychedelic Drug Helps Cancer Patients Overcome Anxiety
Saturday, December 03, 2016
Give Thanks For Siblings: They Can Make Us Healthier And Happier
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Hope Still Races Ahead Of Evidence In Magnet Treatment For Autism
Saturday, July 09, 2016
Your Adult Siblings May Hold The Secret To A Long, Happy Life
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Somehow we're squeezing 16 people into our apartment for Thanksgiving this year, with relatives ranging in age from my 30-year-old nephew to my 90-year-old mother. I love them all, but in a way the one I know best is the middle-aged man across the table whose blue eyes look just ...
Despite Sweeping Aid-In-Dying Law, Few Will Have That Option
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
The "death-with-dignity" movement took a giant step forward this week, with 38 million people coming under its umbrella in a single swoop when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act on Monday.
But the law still leaves out a wide range of people who might ...
Freezing Eggs May Reduce A Woman's Odds Of Success With IVF
Friday, August 28, 2015
With egg freezing being touted as a way for women to potentially expand future childbearing options, the viability of those eggs when they're defrosted is still relatively unknown. The latest bit of guardedly good news is a short report in JAMA indicating that frozen eggs do indeed lead to live ...
Early Push To Require The HPV Vaccine May Have Backfired
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Nine years after it was first approved in June 2006, the HPV vaccine has had a far more sluggish entree into medical practice than other vaccines at a similar point in their history, according to a report in Tuesday's JAMA.
This might not surprise those who remember the early days ...
'No One Should Have The Right To Prolong My Death'
Tuesday, July 07, 2015
When Jennifer Glass goes to Sacramento on Tuesday to deliver testimony in favor of the California End-of-Life-Options Act, the trip will require some complex logistics.
Her 17-year-old stepson, Tristan, will bundle her into her car and get behind the wheel to drive the two hours from her home in San ...
If You Have Dementia, Can You Hasten Death As You Wished?
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
If you make a choice to hasten your own death, it's actually pretty simple: don't eat or drink for a week. But if you have Alzheimer's disease, acting on even that straightforward choice can become ethically and legally fraught.
But choosing an end game is all but impossible if you're ...
Your Adult Siblings May Be The Secret To A Long, Happy Life
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Somehow we're squeezing 16 people into our apartment for Thanksgiving this year, with relatives ranging in age from my 30-year-old nephew to my 90-year-old mother. I love them all, but in a way the one I know best is the middle-aged man across the table whose blue eyes look just ...
Transgender Men Who Become Pregnant Face Social, Health Challenges
Friday, November 07, 2014
"Pregnancy and childbirth were very male experiences for me," said a 29-year-old respondent in a study reported Friday in Obstetrics and Gynecology. "When I birthed my children, I was born into fatherhood."
If this statement at first seems perplexing, it's less so when you realize the person talking is a ...
Women Increasingly Pick Brains Over Looks In Choosing Egg Donors
Sunday, November 02, 2014
More women than ever are using donor eggs as they keep delaying childbearing until long past the age when their own eggs are healthy. This has helped fuel an increase in first-time mothers over 40, whose numbers have quadrupled in the past 30 years.
But as the practice becomes ...
Making Those New Year's Resolutions Stick
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Twentysomething
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter Samantha Henig discuss what it means to be in your twenties today. In the summer of 2010, Robin Marantz Henig wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” that generated enormous reader response and started a conversation that included people in their 20s and baby boomers. Working with her daughter, she’s expanded the project into a book, Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
In Vitro Nobel Prize
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Robin Marantz Henig, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution addresses the history and future of IVF treatments in light of the Nobel Prize for Medicine win yesterday.
The End: The Line Between Life and Death During Organ Donation
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
All this week we’re talking with our friends from Scientific American about endings: in nature, culture and science. For most of human history the clearest, most black and white ending in our lives was death. However, in recent decades, life support technology has made death a gray area, leading to right-to-life debates, as in the case of Terri Schiavo. But the question of when someone is dead becomes especially important when dealing with the process of organ donation.
We asked you, our listeners: If you are are an organ donor, what made you agree to it? If not, what's your reason against it? Let us know in the comments or call 877-8-MY-TAKE and we'll play the responses on the air.
'Emerging Adulthood': You Know You're an Adult When...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
We're looking at whether adulthood is arriving later in life, while adolescence gets longer. The New York Times Magazine looks at the issue this weekend. And we're asking: When did adulthood arrive for you? Complete this sentence: You know you're an adult when... Maybe it's graduating college? Moving out from your parents' house? Getting married? Let us know what it was for you.