Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired.
When it comes to our health, maybe we should be testing and diagnosing less.
Why billionaires need to give more — and give faster.
Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
A movement fueled by conspiracy theories is starting conspiracy theories about its latest nominee.
How to live longer — and healthier.
We’re in the middle of the worst measles outbreak in 30 years.
How to block the next Covid in mid-air.
Political scientist Frances Lee examines the “noble lies” and truth-seeking failures of the pandemic.
Fewer people are dying from opioid overdoses. Trump threatens that progress.
The one allergy treatment to rule them all, explained.
If you dislike insects, you’ll hate this.
Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and scientists will do irreparable harm to the country.
Kennedy is targeting our best defense against the dentist.
Dementia has long resisted treatment. But one answer could be surprisingly simple.
US health care is never going to be the same.
The author John Green on how Trump cuts to aid will kill TB patients — and what we can do about it.
The troubling ripple effects of more measles outbreaks, explained.
From HIV to malnutrition, here’s what the loss of 83 percent of USAID programs looks like.
From mRNA vaccines to remote work, the technologies that blunted the worst of the pandemic.
The confusing guidance about alcohol, simplified.
Five years later, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned people against a cutting-edge medical technology.
Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.
They’re a step in the right direction.
The new Health and Human Services secretary is facing one of his first public health crises. Will he blow up the typical protocol?
Some vaccinated people got measles in Texas. Here’s how to check your immunity.
The neglected ways climate change is affecting our health, explained by Valley fever.
Here’s what Trump gets right — and wrong — about the WHO.
All of us will be collateral damage in MAGA’s war on “DEI.”
Nasal vaccines are more effective and easier to get to the people who need it most.
Are we really 89 seconds away from annihilation?
And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.
The global fight against HIV is at a perilous tipping point.
This year’s no good, very bad norovirus season.
Why we won’t cause a mirror bacteria apocalypse — thanks to science.
It turns out cleaning your hands is more complicated than killing germs.
An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.