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Public Health Archive

Archives for December 2024

Features
Giving healthy kids antibiotics saves lives. There’s a catch.Giving healthy kids antibiotics saves lives. There’s a catch.
Features

An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.

By Jess Craig
Future Perfect
9 actually good things that happened in 20249 actually good things that happened in 2024
Future Perfect

It wasn’t the easiest year, but 2024 was not without its bright spots.

By Bryan Walsh
Future Perfect
The 10(ish) most read Future Perfect stories of 2024The 10(ish) most read Future Perfect stories of 2024
Future Perfect

Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.

By Bryan Walsh
Future Perfect
The problem with US charity is that it’s not effective enoughThe problem with US charity is that it’s not effective enough
Future Perfect

The New York Times painted a misleading picture. Less than 0.2 percent of US charity is ruthlessly optimized.

By Dylan Matthews
The slippery appeal of RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement
Policy

Everybody loves MAHA — because nobody knows what it really is.

By Keren Landman, MD
The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care system
Future Perfect

The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.

By Dylan Scott
The Highlight
What in the world is pink cocaine?What in the world is pink cocaine?
The Highlight

It’s not cocaine, but it can be just about anything else — except a good idea.

By Celia Ford
Future Perfect
I got malaria on purpose and so can youI got malaria on purpose and so can you
Future Perfect

We need new malaria drugs — so I spent a year as a guinea pig.

By Dylan Matthews
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court seems likely to reverse a ridiculous decision about vapingThe Supreme Court seems likely to reverse a ridiculous decision about vaping
Supreme Court

The justices spent Monday morning reminding us that the Court can always get worse under Trump.

By Ian Millhiser

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