Beth Howard

An award-winning writer for print and digital media, I’ve written for US News & World Report, AARP, Better Homes and Gardens, Reader’s Digest, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Spirituality and Health, among many other venues. I’m passionate about and have a deep knowledge of health, health care, psychology, nutrition, and fitness. I worked as an editor at a number of top-tier national magazines, including Self, New Woman and Omni magazine.

I also write custom content, including blogs, web copy, newsletters, patient guides, annual reports, and other collateral material for health and health care clients. Clients include Humana; HealthGram; The Cleveland HeartLab (commercial offshoot of the Cleveland Clinic); Duke Health; University Hospitals; Hospital for Special Surgery; the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation; Health Matters, the consumer website of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

info Subjects

General

Health & Medicine
Fitness & Nutrition
Lifestyle
Parenting
Wellness
Travel
Religion & Spirituality

Specialties

Health, Health Care, Psychology, Nutrition, Fitness

notepad Skills

  • Annual reports
  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Brochures
  • Content marketing
  • Editing
  • Feature writing
  • Ghostwriting
  • News
  • News releases
  • Profiles
  • Project management
  • Q&A
  • Web copy
  • White papers

notepad Writing Credits

AARP Better Homes & Gardens US News & World Report The Wall Street Journal Prevention SELF O the Oprah Magazine Fitness Cosmopolitan Good Housekeeping The Washington Post Glamour Reader’s Digest and more

notepad Book Credits

Mind Your Body: A Sexual Health and Wellness Guide for Women (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

  • “Adult Women Struggle With Eating Disorders, Too. Here’s Why Treatment Looks Different” (Prevention) ASJA annual writing awards
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  • What to Know About mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (AARP.org)  National Health Infofrmation Awards 
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  • How to Survive Your First Heart Attack  (AARP) National Health Infofrmation Awards 
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  • “Should You Have Surgery Abroad?”  (AARP) National Health Infofrmation Awards 
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  • Lessons From America’s Safest Hospitals (AARP) National Health Infofrmation Awards 
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  • Rehab Your Bad Habits (Fitness) National Health Infofrmation Awards 
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  • The Skeptics Guide to Alternative Medicine (Woman’s Day) National Health Infofrmation Awards 

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

Adult Women Struggle With Eating Disorders, Too. Here’s Why Treatment Looks Different

Eating disorders can crop in in midlife with serious consequences.

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