Independent Journalist

Charlotte Huff covered medical news on staff at several daily newspapers and now reports freelance for magazines and online publications. She can tackle an array of writing styles—profiles, trend pieces, and narratives. Her favorite assignments explore the interplay between science, money, ethics, and, above all, the power of patient stories to shed light on health care.

Recent Work

PERENNIAL FAVORITES:

Travels to the Rio Grande Valley to report on the lack of cancer care, for KFF Health News, and later to shadow a medical school's drive to get more reliable contraception to underserved women, for Undark. (My KFF Health News portfolio can be checked out here.)
An in-depth look at how lightning strikes injure the body, both the science and the stories that survivors in the southwest U.S., as well as the heart-stopping reality of cardiac arrest, both for the sadly departed British publication Mosaic Science.
Profiles, such as a look at a West Texas hospital CEO who beat the odds for rural hospital survival in his hometown, and a surgeon who operated on babies with spina bifida in utero, while for years keeping her own diagnosis secret, both for STAT.

NPR/KFF Health News | An emerging cadre of physicians are striving to break the cycle of shame in medicine, starting with their own training.

Scientific American | Kidney damage can sneak up on people without symptoms, and those newly diagnosed may face major changes in their lives.

Cancer Today | Younger adults who are diagnosed with cancer often face a new uncertainty along with treatment: medical bills and collection calls.

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