Rachel Zelkowitz

All Stories by Rachel Zelkowitz

  1. Health & Medicine

    Changing the paradigm around Alzheimer’s disease

    Prevention could begin with lifestyle in younger years, one researcher says during the American Public Health Association meeting.

  2. Science & Society

    Why Cousteau’s granddaughter was at a meeting on public health

    Philadelphia — On brainstorming possible keynote speakers for a major public health conference, the granddaughter of ocean giant Jacques Cousteau does not exactly stand out. But in Philadelphia on Sunday, filmmaker and diver Celine Cousteau stood before the 11,000 or so attendees of the American Public Health Association's annual meeting to explain just why exactly she was there to give the opening session's address.

  3. Plants

    Plants reveal pollen-luring secrets

    Scientists finally pin down the proteins one plant uses to lure pollen tubes to its plant ovaries.