Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn is an American author and journalist who covers science, health, and society. She is the author of The Empty Room, a memoir of the death of her older brother, Ted DeVita, who lived for eight years in a plastic bubble at the National Institute of Health Clinical Center before dying of iron overload from the transfusions he had as treatment of his severe immune disorder at the age of 17. Her father is Dr. Vincent T. DeVita. DeVita-Raeburn has a master's degree in public health from Columbia University. Her stories have appeared in The Washington Post, Self, Glamour, Health, Psychology Today and Harper's Bazaar, among many other publications. She is the coauthor of The Death of Cancer (FSG, 2015). Devita-Raeburn currently works at Everyday Health as the senior cancer editor. In 2017, she was chosen as a National Cancer Institute fellow. She lives in New York with her husband, writer Paul Raeburn and their sons, Henry and Luke. See also Ted DeVita David Vetter Bubble Boy (disambiguation) References DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth. "The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age." Scribner, New York, 2004. . External links DeVita-Raeburn home page Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn Everyday Health Cancer Special Report 2017 NCI fellow, Everyday Health 1966 births Living people American health and wellness writers American women journalists American memoirists American self-help writers American women memoirists 21st-century American women