Pamela Weintraub is an author and journalist who specializes in health, biomedicine, and psychology. She is currently a consulting editor at Psychology Today and executive editor at MAMM magazine, and has served as editor in chief of OMNI and staff writer at Discover. Weintraub has written hundreds of articles for many national publications, including Redbook, Ms., McCall's, Audubon, and Health, to name just a few. She lives in Connecticut.
"Pamela Weintraub's book is compelling, clear and troubling."
-Patti Adcroft, editorial director of "Discover" magazine "In
"Cure, Unknown," Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive
book about Lyme disease and associated disorders and a survivor's
account of a grueling medical odyssey. Weintraub is a masterful
science writer and storyteller, and she tackles the quarrels and
quagmires surrounding this baffling illness with intelligence and
pathos. This is an important and unforgettable book, destined to
make a lasting contribution to the field of investigative health
journalism."
-Kaja Perina, editor in chief of "Psychology Today""" "A thoroughly
researched and well-written account of the disease's controversial
history." --Jane Brody, "New York Times" "Pam Weintraub, veteran
science writer, weaves personal narrative with hard-hitting
investigative journalism to bring the underground epidemic of Lyme
and other tick-borne diseases up from under theradar." -Rebecca
Wells, author of "Ya-Yas in Bloom "and "Divine Secrets ""of the
Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""" "" "" "I sometimes wonder if the only
investigative writers who will possess the necessary temerity to
remove the white gloves and tackle these putative experts to the
ground will be those, like Weintraub and thelate Randy Shilts,
whose personal experience demands that they follow the rocky trail
that leads to the truth." -Hillary Johnson, author of "Osler's Web:
Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome""Epidemic"""
"" "" "Millions suffering from symptoms of a mysterious disease
need suffer confusion and loss no longer. If you want to know the
real story behind Lyme disease and how to find your way back to
health, read this book." -Mark Hyman, MD, author of the New York
Times bestseller, "UltraMetabolism.""" "" "" "Science journalism at
its best." --Amiram Katz, MD, Clinical Faculty, Neurology
Department, Yale School of Medicine "Weintraub turns a tragic yet
eye-opening experience into a shocking exposure of what can happen
when egos, greed, and peer pressure supercede objective evidence,
allowing patients to suffer chronic, disabling illness." -Donna
Chavez, "Booklist" "Exhaustively researched and highly
recommended." -Tina Neville, Library Journal "A tale of biological
complexities, scientific turf battles, political intrigue, human
egos and money - lots of it." -Dorothy Kupcha Leland, "Sacramento
Bee""" "" "Living with Lyme gave Weintraub both the insight and the
dogged ambition to find out some truths ... rather than remaining
stuck at the pro-Lyme, anti-Lyme debate, Weintraub spent many
hoursinterviewing researchers who are experts in the ticks that
spread Lyme, and the bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi,
that causes it. What she found is that these researchers -- at
places like theState University of New York at Stony Brook on Long
Island, and the University of California at Davis -- are slowly
figuring out how complex the bacteria and the disease are. And
Weintraub said, theseresearchers, by and large, confirm what many
Lyme patients have learned through bitter experience -- the
bacteria can cause a persistent infection that may not be treated
easily by a couple ofweeks of antibiotics." --Robert Miller,
"Danbury News-Times""" "" "The view from inside the tick tornado:
Sober but scary ...A science and health journalist, Weintraub
writes clearly and passionately about a mysterious illness that has
confounded physicians, patients andscientists for more than three
decades, while she tries to balance personal narrative and
objective journalism... a comprehensive and compassionate guide to
a dreaded illness named after a bucolic, tick-infested town on Long
Island Sound." --Bill Williams, "Hartford ""Courant""" "" "" "In
the war of information on Lyme disease, patient activist groups
have started from a marked disadvantage to the medical
establishment in terms of visibility and credibility. That may be
changing, and science journalist Pamela Weintraub's new book, "Cure
Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic" (St. Martin's Press), could be
one reason. Weintraub, a senior editor at Discover magazine, uses
her family's protracted Lyme odyssey as the jumping off point for
an exploration into the history, politics and, predominantly, the
patient experience of the tick-borne disease." --- Susan Morse,
"Washington Post"
“Pamela Weintraub's book is compelling, clear and troubling.”
–Patti Adcroft, editorial director of "Discover" magazine “In
"Cure, Unknown," Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive
book about Lyme disease and associated disorders and a survivor’s
account of a grueling medical odyssey. Weintraub is a masterful
science writer and storyteller, and she tackles the quarrels and
quagmires surrounding this baffling illness with intelligence and
pathos. This is an important and unforgettable book, destined to
make a lasting contribution to the field of investigative health
journalism.”
–Kaja Perina, editor in chief of "Psychology Today""" "A
thoroughly researched and well-written account of the disease's
controversial history." --Jane Brody, "New York
Times" "Pam Weintraub, veteran science writer,
weaves personal narrative with hard-hitting investigative
journalism to bring the underground epidemic
"Pamela Weintraub's book is compelling, clear and troubling."
-Patti Adcroft, editorial director of "Discover" magazine"In "Cure,
Unknown," Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive book
about Lyme disease and associated disorders and a survivor's
account of a grueling medical odyssey. Weintraub is a masterful
science writer and storyteller, and she tackles the quarrels and
quagmires surrounding this baffling illness with intelligence and
pathos. This is an important and unforgettable book, destined to
make a lasting contribution to the field of investigative health
journalism."
-Kaja Perina, editor in chief of "Psychology Today""A thoroughly
researched and well-written account of the disease'scontroversial
history." --Jane Brody, New York Times "Pam Weintraub, veteran
science writer, weaves personal narrative withhard-hitting
investigative journalism to bring the undergroundepidemic of Lyme
and other tick-borne diseases up from under theradar." -Rebecca
Wells, author of "Ya-Yas in Bloom "and "Divine Secrets""of the
Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""" "I sometimes wonder if the only investigative
writers who will possessthe necessary temerity to remove the white
gloves and tackle theseputative experts to the ground will be
those, like Weintraub and thelate Randy Shilts, whose personal
experience demands that they followthe rocky trail that leads to
the truth." -Hillary Johnson, author of"Osler's Web: Inside the
Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome""Epidemic""" "Millions
suffering from symptoms of a mysterious disease need
sufferconfusion and loss no longer. If you want to know the real
storybehind Lyme disease and how to find your way back to health,
read thisbook." -MarkHyman, MD, author of the New York Times
bestseller, "UltraMetabolism.""" "Science journalism at its best."
--Amiram Katz, MD, Clinical Faculty, Neurology Department, Yale
School of Medicine "Weintraub turns a tragic yet eye-opening
experience into a shockingexposure of what can happen when egos,
greed, and peer pressuresupercede objective evidence, allowing
patients to suffer chronic, disabling illness." -Donna Chavez,
"Booklist" "Exhaustively researched and highly recommended." -Tina
Neville, Library Journal "A tale of biological complexities,
scientific turf battles, politicalintrigue, human egos and money -
lots of it." -Dorothy Kupcha Leland, "Sacramento Bee" "Living with
Lyme gave Weintraub both the insight and the doggedambition to find
out some truths ... rather than remaining stuck atthe pro-Lyme,
anti-Lyme debate, Weintraub spent many hoursinterviewing
researchers who are experts in the ticks that spreadLyme, and the
bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, that causesit. What she
found is that these researchers -- at places like theState
University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, and
theUniversity of California at Davis -- are slowly figuring out
howcomplex the bacteria and the disease are. And Weintraub said,
theseresearchers, by and large, confirm what many Lyme patients
havelearned through bitter experience -- the bacteria can cause
apersistent infection that may not be treated easily by a couple
ofweeks of antibiotics." --Robert Miller, "Danbury News-Times" "The
view from inside the tick tornado: Sober but scary ...A scienceand
health journalist, Weintraub writes clearly and passionately abouta
mysterious illness that has confounded physicians,
patientsandscientists for more than three decades, while she tries
to balancepersonal narrative and objective journalism... a
comprehensive andcompassionate guide to a dreaded illness named
after a bucolic, tick-infested town on Long Island Sound." --Bill
Williams, "Hartford""Courant""" "In the war of information on Lyme
disease, patient activist groupshave started from a marked
disadvantage to the medical establishmentin terms of visibility and
credibility. That may be changing, andscience journalist Pamela
Weintraub's new book, "Cure Unknown: Insidethe Lyme Epidemic" (St.
Martin's Press), could be one reason.Weintraub, a senior editor at
Discover magazine, uses her family'sprotracted Lyme odyssey as the
jumping off point for an explorationinto the history, politics and,
predominantly, the patient experienceof the tick-borne disease."
--- Susan Morse, "Washington Post"
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