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Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.

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

By Rachel DuRose

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Ashley Muteti transformed her loss into social change in Kenya

By Rachel DuRose

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Nikki Teran wants to stop the next pandemic

By Dylan Matthews

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Varsha Venugopal and Fiona Conlon are using gossip to save lives

By Sigal Samuel

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

By Rachel DuRose

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Ticora Jones has supercharged global development research

By Kenny Torrella

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

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

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

By Dylan Scott

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

By Keren Landman

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

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Who thought flexible spending accounts were a good idea?

By Dylan Scott

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

By Keren Landman

Nearly 2 million kids have been kicked off Medicaid this year

By Dylan Scott

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

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

What happened to the family doctor?

By Dylan Scott

The dangers of virus hunting

By Kelsey Piper

How America became a nation of gamblers

By Dylan Scott

Narcan — the opioid overdose medication — will finally be available over the counter

By Allie Volpe

Medicare’s first-ever drug price negotiations, briefly explained

By Dylan Scott

You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid

By Allie Volpe

Half the world is at risk of dengue. Why is there no universal way to prevent it?

By Rachel DuRose

Fauci’s replacement is the person America’s STI crisis needs

By Keren Landman

What do Americans want from their food? The answers are in the Trader Joe’s recalls.

By Keren Landman

Why the mosquito that spreads West Nile virus is becoming resistant to insecticides

By Keren Landman

This tick’s spit can make you allergic to meat

By Rachel DuRose

Is it time to be worried about Covid-19 again?

By Dylan Scott

The FDA approved a new preventive shot for RSV, the leading cause of US infant hospitalization

By Oshan Jarow

8 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years.

By Keren Landman

The WHO declared aspartame “possibly” causes cancer. Here’s what that means.

By Keren Landman

The next big question about over-the-counter birth control

By Dylan Scott

How an LGBTQ clinic in Uganda keeps going amid rising homophobic violence

By Keren Landman

What to do if you’re worried about “forever chemicals” in your drinking water

By Li Zhou