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Vox's coverage of all things health, including personal health, public health, mental health, and more.

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US life expectancy no longer catastrophic, now merely bad

By Keren Landman

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Moitshepi Matsheng and Noam Angrist are working to reduce HIV transmission in Botswana

By Rachel DuRose

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Gul Dolen wants to harness psychedelics for healing

By Sigal Samuel

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Ticora Jones has supercharged global development research

By Kenny Torrella

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Seye Abimbola hopes to amplify marginalized voices in the global health space

By Rachel DuRose

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Robin Carhart-Harris studies psychedelics to understand the mind

By Oshan Jarow

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Varsha Venugopal and Fiona Conlon are using gossip to save lives

By Sigal Samuel

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Nikki Teran wants to stop the next pandemic

By Dylan Matthews

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Ashley Muteti transformed her loss into social change in Kenya

By Rachel DuRose

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Scott O’Neill hopes to go out of business with his disease-fighting program

By Rachel DuRose

I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too.

By Dylan Matthews

The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do

By Dylan Scott

Many Americans with dementia can’t get the hospice care they need

By Keren Landman

How to talk to a loved one about their health

By Allie Volpe

The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu

By Marina Bolotnikova

Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?

By Dylan Scott

Psychedelics can have enormous benefits, but the risks shouldn’t be ignored

By Oshan Jarow

It’s getting increasingly dangerous to be a newborn in the US

By Keren Landman

The world’s largest child displacement crisis is in Sudan

By Bryan Walsh

Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

By Alissa Wilkinson

Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them

By Dylan Scott

The death toll from Gaza, explained

By Keren Landman

I’m getting malaria to help eradicate it (and you can too)

By Dylan Matthews

The mental health crisis among doctors is a problem for patients

By Keren Landman

Baby boomers are aging. Their kids aren’t ready.

By Anna North

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Who thought flexible spending accounts were a good idea?

By Dylan Scott

Nearly 2 million kids have been kicked off Medicaid this year

By Dylan Scott

Why you’ve never heard of this common eating disorder behavior — and why that’s a problem

By Daryl Austin

Real mindfulness would transform the economy

By Oshan Jarow

What could cause a malaria comeback in the US — and what could stop it

By Keren Landman

The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen

By Kelsey Piper

What a striking new study of death in America misses

By Dylan Matthews

More young, healthy people should be getting Paxlovid when they get Covid

By Keren Landman

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

By Whizy Kim

Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?

By Bryan Walsh

Another Covid-19 winter is coming. Here’s how to prepare.

By Dylan Scott

Lead poisoning kills millions annually. One country is showing the way forward.

By Kelsey Piper

How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser

What happened to the family doctor?

By Dylan Scott

Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined

By Dylan Matthews

The dangers of virus hunting

By Kelsey Piper

Is there anything Ozempic can’t do?

By Dylan Scott

New Covid vaccines are coming out. The CDC wants you to get one.

By Rachel DuRose