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Public Health

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What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?

By Muizz Akhtar March 27

Why don’t we have vaccines for fungal infections?

By Keren Landman March 24

How the US can stop the spread of Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

By Nicole Narea March 23

The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past

By Bryan Walsh March 20

Why 70 percent of the world’s maternal deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa

By Rachel DuRose March 17

We can overcome vaccine hesitancy. Just look at the HPV shot.

By Rachel DuRose March 4

Why it’s so hard to get answers on long Covid

By Keren Landman March 4

The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory

By Dylan Scott March 1

The pay gap between hospital CEOs and nurses is expanding even faster than we thought

By Dylan Scott February 24

The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think

By Kelsey Piper February 22

How bad of a norovirus wave is the US in for?

By Keren Landman February 17

Millions of people are about to get kicked off Medicaid

By Dylan Scott February 13

Nobody but your doctor should know your menstrual history

By Keren Landman February 10

It doesn’t take that many electric cars to improve public health

By Umair Irfan February 9

Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own.

By Dylan Scott February 7

Obesity in the age of Ozempic

By Julia Belluz February 7

Can you get bird flu?

By Keren Landman and Benji Jones February 6

What an abortion hotline reveals about reproductive care after Roe

By Marin Cogan and Victoria Chamberlin February 6

Biden is ending the Covid public health emergency. Here’s what that means for you.

By Dylan Scott February 1

What can the world learn from China’s “zero-Covid” lockdown?

By Rachel DuRose January 31

Believe it or not, we are not going to be sick forever

By Dylan Scott January 27

Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman January 20

Congress’s bipartisan deal to spend billions more fighting HIV and malaria abroad

By Dylan Matthews January 13

A worrisome trend in American hospitals is hurting poor patients

By Dylan Scott January 13

Why we can’t turn off the NFL

By Dylan Scott January 5

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

By Julia Craven and Margo Snipe December 30, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 29, 2022

Great news for germs

By Keren Landman December 23, 2022

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough December 22, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 22, 2022

5 experts share how to make day care less germy

By Keren Landman December 16, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 15, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 7, 2022

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

By Keren Landman December 6, 2022

Why does the US keep running out of medicine?

By Dylan Scott December 5, 2022

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

By Keren Landman November 18, 2022

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

By Allie Volpe November 18, 2022

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

By Keren Landman November 1, 2022

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

By Muizz Akhtar October 31, 2022

Why everybody you know is sick right now

By Dylan Scott October 27, 2022