Health Archive
Archives for December 2014
Vox editors, writers, and designers on the titles that grabbed their attention this year.
Here are three things you need to know.
The mistake is one of multiple errors the CDC has made this year, including dozens of workers accidentally exposed to anthrax.
From the Ebola quarantine wars to exercises that will add length to your legs and healthy e-cigarettes, these were the worst attacks on science and reason this year.
Drug-resistant infections, Ebola, and fixing a broken clinical trials system are among the big ones.
Experiments show that psilocybin mushrooms can be a surprisingly effective treatment
Some researchers are taking the idea of medical hallucinogens more seriously.
Governments around the world are growing increasingly worried about the threat of superbugs.
“Still today President Obama has not called on my grandmother to say, ‘my condolences.’”
And other findings from a new report on opioids use.
An HIV doctor offers help with a difficult decision.
Why it’s a big deal that a Health and Human Services advisory panel finally recommended lifting the lifetime ban.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call the idea “a long perpetuated myth.”
Progress has been made in Liberia and Guinea, but the epidemic is out of control in Sierra Leone.
On December 2, the FDA will consider lifting its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.