
Julia Belluz
Freelance contributor
Latest articles by Julia Belluz


Cases of the tick-borne illness have exploded since the 1990s.


This practice is more common than you think.


More than a third of American adults use medications that list depression as a risk, and a quarter use drugs that increase the risk of suicide.


Suicide is rare but it’s also increasing in America.


Is eating a lot of fat really the best way to lose weight?

Science needs to have its #MeToo moment.


Only 4 percent of women give birth on their due date. These researchers want to fix that.


Suicide rates have risen in almost every state in the US in the past two decades.


Damage from loud sounds is cumulative — but really loud noise can hurt your hearing in a matter of minutes.


Many breast cancer patients don’t need chemo, a precision medicine study just found.