Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
The drug’s cost crisis is spurring states to pursue a public version of an essential medication.
Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are changing how patients view their own weight struggles. Will society follow?
The H5N1 avian flu virus isn’t a major human threat today. Here’s what it’d take to become one.
Linda Prine, a physician and co-founder of the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline, describes the new realities for patients in states where the procedure is banned.
Short-term lockdowns could be key to ending pandemics early.
This year’s weird, bad cold-and-flu-and-Covid season might have peaked.
The biggest questions about the newest Covid-19 vaccines are still unanswered.
At the surface, Congress is a total mess. Below, it’s actually getting some big stuff done.
When public hospitals are taken over by private companies, people on Medicaid are left worse off.
America’s unbreakable fixation with football will only lead to more injuries like Damar Hamlin’s.
The growing, and sometimes conflicted, calls for cash payments to achieve parity and better health outcomes, explained.
Constant health crises have made it impossible for some hospitals to plan for the future. Patients will pay the price.
The US doesn’t have enough infectious disease doctors — and the situation is about to get worse.
US life expectancy got worse during Covid-19, and then kept getting worse.
From racial bias in CPR to private equity price hikes, here’s what researchers learned about US health care this year.
Lasting change is going to take more than just good hand hygiene.
Ron DeSantis’s increasingly aggressive anti-Covid vaccine crusade, explained.
Millions of lives are at stake as the country prepares to relax its Covid strategy.
And health care systems are getting absolutely crushed ... again.
America’s frequent drug shortages put patients’ health — and their lives — at risk.
The trend reveals the importance of data sharing between state, federal, and tribal health authorities.
Steps to take to protect your family from Covid-19, RSV, and flu.
The vaccines, along with other preventative treatments, could change cold season as we know it.
More American child pedestrians die on Halloween from cars than on any other day of the year.
What’s behind the early surge in RSV and flu — and what’s to come.
All of society benefits when workplaces include people with a range of disabilities.
Here’s how to fix them — and what’s getting in the way.
Fred Aboagye-Antwi, Mamadou Coulibaly, Abdoulaye Diabate, and Jonathan Kayondo are developing a groundbreaking “gene drive” approach to eradicating malaria.
Without accurate data on disease and outcomes, policymakers can’t make good public health decisions.
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project is already getting results in countries where lead-based paint is still used.
Wegrzyn is the first head of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which aims to generate game-changing advances in medicine.
Employing cryptography to ensure that CRISPR is used for good.
From kidney donations to human challenge trials for Covid-19 vaccines, Josh Morrison shows the vast good any individual can do.
The columnist and academic offered smart insights and actionable advice during the pandemic.
Now the Nobel-winning biochemist wants to ensure her invention is used ethically.
A controversial new study involving an engineered version of Covid’s omicron variant raises new questions about research oversight.
Nearly 7 million women of childbearing age live somewhere with limited or zero access to maternity care.
America’s STI crisis is actually a maternal care crisis.
The anti-vaccine movement is gaining strength even after 1 million Americans have died of Covid-19.
Why it’s spreading like an STI through gay men’s sexual networks, why women are at risk — and why condoms might help.