Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Here’s how this African country is winning the fight against childhood HIV.
US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.
Jessica Knurick explains how to counter MAHA when no one trusts experts.
Millions more people will be taking a GLP-1 soon. What’s the catch?
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.
My brain hurts.
Extreme heat is increasing the prevalence of a disease that hits low-income people the hardest.
Science says that even moderate drinking is bad for you — and Americans are listening.
mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives. RFK Jr. is attacking them anyway.
Why this obscure survey has life-or-death stakes, and what its future could look like.
We have a long way to go in understanding the brain injury implicated in the NYC shooting.
Banning food dye is inconsequential when environmental pollution is killing us.
The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
The health care consequences of Trump’s budget bill are already here.
Finally, a painless IUD insertion?
Despite what your social media feed might say, microwaves are safe.
Are summer camps and family vacations going to be hot beds for measles?
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.
The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.
Beware of the biting midge.
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
Anti-vaxxers are coming for health recommendations parents rely on.
Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.
Francis Collins led the NIH for a decade before its dismantling. He’s still searching for answers.
How to navigate a world where MAHA is setting vaccine policy.
What happens when the federal government will no longer respond to a local health crisis?
Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired.
When it comes to our health, maybe we should be testing and diagnosing less.
Why billionaires need to give more — and give faster.
Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
A movement fueled by conspiracy theories is starting conspiracy theories about its latest nominee.
How to live longer — and healthier.
We’re in the middle of the worst measles outbreak in 30 years.
How to block the next Covid in mid-air.
Political scientist Frances Lee examines the “noble lies” and truth-seeking failures of the pandemic.
Fewer people are dying from opioid overdoses. Trump threatens that progress.
The one allergy treatment to rule them all, explained.