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We failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price.
Legal challenges are aiming to take mifepristone off the market. An alternative, however, exists.
Volunteers could speed up the race for a cure that works for adults as well as children.
Adapting to change is never easy, but you can shift how you respond to stress.
Everything seems profound on psychedelics. Scientists are starting to ask why.
4 big takeaways from the CDC’s new report.
Jones expanded the United States’ global development reach. Now she’s fighting for a healthier climate.
The World Mosquito Fund aims to end many mosquito-borne illnesses.
Named after her daughter, the Zuri Nzilani Foundation hopes to end maternal mortality.
Dolen hopes “critical periods” created by psychedelics can help stroke patients.
As editor of BMJ Global Health, Abimbola aims to decentralize global health research.
Carhart-Harris shows how psychedelics can shed light on the nature of consciousness, and treat mental illness.
The pair’s nonprofit, Suvita, is boosting child vaccination rates in India.
Teran worries the government isn’t doing enough to address biosecurity risks. She’s pushing to change that.
Matsheng and Angrist founded the nonprofit Youth Impact, which turns education research into action.
Ten states have uninsured rates below 5 percent. What are they doing right?
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have drawn attention to the benefits of hospice care. But it’s not serving everyone well.
Compassionate ways to let a friend or family member know you’re looking out for them.
What good is a miraculous vaccine if nobody wants to take it?
As access grows, we need better research and education on bad trips.
How maternity care deserts are leading to a spike in infant syphilis and mortality rates.
While attention is rightly focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, millions elsewhere are suffering — and the world doesn’t seem to care.
From Pain Hustlers to Dopesick to The Fall of the House of Usher, filmmakers are fascinated by the epidemic. But what are they saying?
A crisis of confusion is making health care more expensive for many Americans.
Real-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway.
Powerful new vaccines — and challenge trials around new drugs — are taking the fight to one of the world’s biggest killers.
Why doctors are so stressed out, depressed, and suicidal — and what can be done about it.
The broken US health care system is a long-term barrier to Beyfortus access.
Millennials are facing an elder care crisis nobody prepared them for.
The most befuddling tax break in the US health care system, explained.
The CDC is getting close to recommending it to prevent STIs like chlamydia and syphilis.
Medicaid unwinding’s terrible toll, explained in 4 charts.
Increased awareness is the first step to helping more people — particularly teens.
Mindfulness without worker power is capitalism at its worst.
Americans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted.
Katalin Karikó co-won a Nobel Prize this week for her groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines — but she had to fight against professional science to do it.
The big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else.
US providers are underusing the drug — and not just in high-risk people.
“Young blood,” starvation, fruit-only diets: How the rich are striving to “age in reverse”
As the UN meets in New York, progress and energy around the Sustainable Development Goals is dwindling at the worst possible time.