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Health
I’m Scared Children Will Die of Vaccine-Preventable Dis...
Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers ...
How a Group of Grandmothers Revealed the Painful Truth ...
Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Mile...
The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture
How thinness as a virtue shifts from debauchery to conservatism.
We May Soon Be Telling a Very Different Kind of Story A...
The tragic narrative sounds different depending on who’s telling it.
Children in Gaza Are Starving. Let the U.N. Do Its Job.
The new plan to get aid into the territory could lead to a catastrophe.
A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate...
Abortion laws did not consider what happens if a woman dies while her fetus has ...
R.F.K. Jr. Is a Threat to My Junk Food Time Machine
With junk food on the endangered list, I grabbed a chance to journey back to my ...
Love Is a Drug. A.I. Chatbots Are Exploiting That.
Talking to a chatbot may have some benefits — if it doesn’t lead to a full-blown...
When Arkansas Embraced Medicaid Work Requirements, Chao...
America isn’t ready for what could happen to health care.
Living to Die Well
Even as we die, our bodies are capable of more than devolution from illness.
Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63
Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. ...
Censored Science Can’t Save Lives
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Views Don’t Represent America
Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science; it’s bad politics.
The Fifth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic Reveals New...
Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, it’s hard to remember what the...
The Most Important Lesson in Sex Ed Isn’t Actually Sex
How would my life have been different if I had learned about consent?
Bird Flu in Dairy Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster for Pu...
The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inabi...