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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.
Free Covid tests are back — and new vaccines are at your local pharmacy too.
How Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice — and saved lives.
A new study shows how anti-vaxxers quickly regroup when Facebook removes vaccine misinformation.
Phenylephrine and other medications that contain it, like Sudafed PE, don’t work.
Primary care is the foundation of American medicine — and it’s withering.
However bad you think lead poisoning is for the world, it’s worse.
DEEP VZN aimed to discover viruses in wildlife that could threaten humans, but the risks weren’t worth the rewards.
Semaglutide, the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, could soon be used for a lot more than weight loss.
Everyone over 6 months should get a new shot, according to the CDC. Should we expect this every year?
Covid transmission continues to ebb and flow — but at least the latest Pirola variant isn’t too menacing.
The biggest sports gambling season ever is kicking off. Are states ready for the consequences?
What happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire?
In just a few days, drugstores like Walgreens will have it in stock, for everyone. Here’s how to use it, and who it will help.
In a sex recession, consider the benefits of a DIY approach.
What “Eris” and “Fornax” tell us about the future of the pandemic.
Patients stand to save a lot of money.
Actually useful ways to help children with homework, bullying, and mental health.
The new science of meditation is just getting started.