When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.