Hundreds of times over the past five-plus years I’ve heard my colleague and friend pick up a ringing phone — generally a landline, Sharon wasn’t a fan of cellphones — and identify herself to a caller.

Boston (June 1, 2021) — STAT, the nation’s must-read health, science, and medicine publication, and the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced ...

In her final report for STAT, science writer Sharon Begley examined the rising incidence of lung cancer in people who had never smoked.Though she never directly mentioned it in the article, it was a ...