Heather Boerner is a health and medical writer and editor with more than a dozen years experience at newspapers, websites and now, as a freelance health journalist, with newspapers, magazines, custom publications and websites. She specializes in explaining complicated medical issues to consumers and healthcare experts in friendly language for publications ranging from AARP to Better Homes and Gardens. Her work has appeared in Yoga Journal, National Nurse Magazine, Prevention and custom publications of the American Cancer Society, National Hemophilia Foundation, National MS Society, Lupus Federation of American and American Diabetes Association.