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Alex Viveros is the Town and Health Reporter at the Jackson Hole News&Guide in Jackson, Wyoming. He moved to Jackson after working as a News Intern at Science News in Washington D.C. He writes stories related to health, medicine, and how they play out in what’s he’s found to be one of the most unique places in the United States.

Alex was the Editor in Chief of his college newspaper, The Tufts Daily, in the fall of 2020 and helped lead his newsroom through the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an alumnus of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, and has also interned at Chemical & Engineering News, Science Magazine and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Alex was raised in Palo Alto, California, and is fluent in Spanish. When he’s not working, you can find him hiking, running, learning to snowboard or exploring Jackson Hole.

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The severely depressed are desperate. For some in Teton County, ketamine is the answer

Jackson Hole News&Guide (November 5, 2025)

Though one provider backed off, others are at capacity providing psychedelic therapy.

Dancing with the banda at the Teton County feria

Jackson Hole News&Guide (July 30, 2025)

For Jackson Hole Latinos, Teton County Fair is a community treasure.

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened

Science News (April 28, 2025)

Calgary, Canada, and Juneau, Alaska, show how ending fluoridation can affect health

Jackson Hole tracks viruses from the toilet

Jackson Hole News&Guide (July 2, 2025)

Human waste analysis gives local doctors a better idea of how sick — or healthy — the population is.

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done

Science News (February 24, 2025)

Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment

Pain meets precision medicine

Chemical & Engineering News (January 29, 2025)

Targeting voltage-gated sodium channels could usher in new opioid-free solutions for pain relief

What’s going to happen?’ Tufts scientists race to stay ahead of H5N1 as officials announce third human US case this year

The Boston Globe (June 2, 2024)

It’s still an open question, experts say, what will happen as the bird flu virus continues to spread.