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22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 2 more

The medical system has failed Black Americans for centuries. Could reparations be the answer?

By Julia Craven and Margo Snipe

2022 was the worst for many US hospitals. The aftershocks will last for years.

By Dylan Scott

Great news for germs

By Keren Landman

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough

5 studies released in 2022 that might change how you think about health care

By Dylan Scott

One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now?

By Umair Irfan

5 experts share how to make day care less germy

By Keren Landman

Ron DeSantis’s vaccine “investigation” is all about beating Trump

By Dylan Scott

China’s health system isn’t ready for the end of “zero Covid”

By Dylan Scott

The US has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week

By Keren Landman

China’s Covid narrative is backfiring

By Jen Kirby

How “zero-Covid” changed China — and the world

By Kelsey Piper

What makes China’s wave of protests different this time

By Jonathan Guyer

Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note.

By Sigal Samuel

The wave of protests testing China’s zero-Covid policy, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag

Syphilis rates are soaring in South Dakota’s American Indian communities. What’s going on?

By Keren Landman

Going home for the holidays? Boost, mask, and test beforehand.

By Allie Volpe

How to handle an overload of grief

By Katie Reilly

This flu season is looking really scary, in one chart

By Keren Landman

Malawi scientists have a plan to fight one of their country’s biggest killers

By Kelsey Piper

Your free pandemic health perks are on the way out

By Umair Irfan

New RSV vaccines are coming. This is very, very good news.

By Keren Landman

Forget tainted candy: The scariest thing on Halloween is parked in your driveway

By Muizz Akhtar

Why everybody you know is sick right now

By Dylan Scott

How to read a controversial preprint paper on Covid’s origins

By Kelsey Piper

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John Fetterman survived a stroke. It could be an asset if he’s elected.

By Keren Landman

There’s a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections

By Keren Landman

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

How to move your body when your brain won’t cooperate

By Julia Craven

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Lucia Coulter and Jack Rafferty want to strip the world of lead-based paint

By Dylan Matthews

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Target Malaria’s scientists are working to rid Africa of an ancient plague

By Dylan Matthews

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Jennifer Doudna helped rewrite life with CRISPR

By Bryan Walsh

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Zeynep Tufekci has been consistently ahead of the curve on Covid-19

By Siobhan McDonough

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Kevin Esvelt wants to make the world safe from — and for — biotechnology

By Bryan Walsh

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DARPA changed technology. Now Renee Wegrzyn wants to bring the same innovation to medicine.

By Bryan Walsh

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Our health care data infrastructure is broken. Caitlin Rivers hopes to fix it.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

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Josh Morrison took risks for science, and he thinks you can, too

By Muizz Akhtar