Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Why the $14 drug could reshape global health.
This could be the future of foreign aid. Or a total disaster.
The FDA just approved Foundayo. Here’s what it can and can’t do.
We have the tools to end the virus. The question is whether we’ll abandon them.
How one number explains how we’re winning the 60-year war on smoking.
The next phase of America’s drug crisis is here.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened.
Health care in America is too expensive. But you can make your physician your ally.
The ‘gray area’ of addiction.
You need a primary care appointment. Should you see an MD — or NP?
RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.
How to think about long-term use, dependence, and withdrawal — according to a professional.
Women’s heart health needs its pink-ribbon moment.
Is sugar really that bad for you? Well, what kind of sugar are we talking about?
William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. We’re marking his death by letting measles come back.
Statin hysteria has made it hard to convince people that this effective drug is actually very safe.
The deep roots of mutual aid.
The big health benefits of just a little movement.
How a small innovation lab resurrected itself.
We’re finally making progress toward a universal flu vaccine.
Research has found that a routine vaccine slows aging and cuts dementia risk.
When “pro-life” foreign aid hurts women and children the most.
This undersung service saves Americans $3.1 billion every year. Why aren’t we funding them more?
Yes, food can be medicine — just not the way RFK Jr. means it.
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
Major studies on microplastics are now being called into question.
There are still things you can do to save yourself — and others.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
It’s also a contradictory mess.
Recent changes to federal health policy will affect the lives of millions of Americans, many of them kids.
The CDC is recommending fewer vaccines for kids.
From the state of democracy to the chance of a recession, here’s what could happen in 2026.
Yes, there is a downside to GLP-1 drugs — if you aren’t careful.
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
How politics, not parasites, became the biggest threat in the fight against malaria
Less than Americans’ holiday shopping, actually.
No one wants to make it.
America’s vaccine playbook is being rewritten by people who don’t believe in them.