Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
What Trump’s return could mean for the global poor.
Regular giving, even in small amounts, can save lives.
Volunteers, not FEMA, are the bedrock of disaster response. How do we best support them?
Kennedy has promised to overhaul American health care. How much can he actually change?
America voted for chaos — but we don’t know what real chaos is. Yet.
Donald Trump undermined public health measures during the Covid-19 pandemic. What would he do in a future health emergency?
Donald Trump’s election could allow the GOP to gut Medicaid and protections for preexisting conditions.
Preventing the disease can improve the quality of life for thousands.
Contaminated food from McDonald’s, Boar’s Head, and more is making Americans sick.
Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.
1.5 million people die from lead exposure a year. This new global partnership could change that.
Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed.
The Georgia chemical plant fire, explained.
How diseases like cancer and diabetes are growing, explained in four charts.
Harris and Winfrey spoke to the family of Amber Thurman, who died after doctors delayed abortion-related care.
Experts are losing a little sleep over the latest Missouri case, but that doesn’t mean you should.
It’s not just the Princess of Wales. More and more young people are getting cancer.
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Who should actually get the jab, and when?
But there might be global consequences.
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
Covid’s summer surge, explained
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back.
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
The debate over maternal deaths, explained.