Jennifer Margulis
JournalistJennifer Margulis, is a regular contributor to the Jefferson Journal and also produces radio features for JPR. She's a former senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on the cover of Smithsonian magazine. Her book, Your Baby, Your Way, has been called a "searing and well-researched exposé" by midwife and author Ina May Gaskin. She lives in Southern Oregon with her husband and four children.
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The Ashland Independent Film Festival is gearing up for its 16th season, which takes place for five days in early April. JPR reporter Jennifer Margulis… -
Three young children peek their faces out of a makeshift tent. The oldest two are smiling, looking at the camera. Their tow-headed baby brother is looking… -
Editor’s note: Ashland-based investigative journalist and science writer, Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., delves into the world of in-home senior care for this… -
Eat your vegetables! It’s a refrain parents tell their children all the time.Government guidelines recommend kids eat three to five servings of vegetables… -
Tylenol is one of the most widely used painkillers across the United States. Its main ingredient, acetaminophen, is present in more than 600… -
Oregon has one of the highest rates of home birth in the United States. These births are usually attended by state-licensed midwives. But some pregnant… -
Oregon midwives are licensed to deliver babies at home or at independent birth centers. The Oregon Health Plan covers midwifery services, so that… -
Of the more than 45,000 babies born in Oregon each year, nearly a third are delivered by Cesarean section. Yet studies show that surgical birth is riskier… -
Some people—like my five-year-old—adore the holidays. Since we celebrate both Hanukah and Christmas in our house, Leone gets a winter… -
They’re everywhere. In your intestines, mouth, nose, all over your skin. We usually think of microbes as germs that make us sick. But a new exhibit in… -
“Do you know if this is lacto-fermented?” a woman asks me, sniffing the sauerkraut at the salad bar of the Ashland Food Co-op. “It smells like it.”It’s… -
Lieutenant Kevin Walruff, 49, is a big, clean-shaven man wearing a light blue button-down and a Santa Claus and reindeer tie. I follow him down a hallway…
