
Julia Belluz
Freelance contributor
Latest articles by Julia Belluz


A new paper in the journal Nature reads like a veiled message to China.


A new study shows smoking even one cigarette per day in pregnancy doubles the risk of a newborn baby dying.


The agency sent warning letters to two web retailers selling the medical abortion pills misoprostol and mifepristone.


These are the top three anti-smoking and vaping policies now at risk with Gottlieb’s resignation.


How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears that major studies keep debunking.


A new study describes the case of a man who had HIV, and now doesn’t, after receiving a stem cell transplant.


The latest developments in the gene-editing saga raise more questions than answers.

We now have a “national attention deficit,” one neuroscientist says.


A mad cow-like infectious disease that can turn the brains of deer, elk, and moose into “Swiss cheese.”


Karl Lagerfeld’s unusual dieting psychology, explained.