Public Health
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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![Yet another person got bird flu. Now should I freak out?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-530055943.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0043099732781684%2C100%2C99.991380053444&w=2400)
Experts are losing a little sleep over the latest Missouri case, but that doesn’t mean you should.
![Kate Middleton says she is cancer-free. But why are she and so many young people getting sick?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25350245/KensingtonPalace_01.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Kate Middleton says she is cancer-free. But why are she and so many young people getting sick?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25350245/KensingtonPalace_01.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
It’s not just the Princess of Wales. More and more young people are getting cancer.
![What are ultra-processed foods and why are they bad for you?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-919056212.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![What are ultra-processed foods and why are they bad for you?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-919056212.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
![Should we think twice about fluoride?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1888389534.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663203822979%2C0%2C66.673592354041%2C100&w=2400)
![Should we think twice about fluoride?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1888389534.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0051937259790193%2C100%2C99.989612548042&w=2400)
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
![The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1244771286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.724537037037%2C0%2C66.550925925926%2C100&w=2400)
![The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1244771286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.08680555555555%2C0%2C99.826388888889%2C100&w=2400)
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
![This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-508573194.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.090909090909%2C0%2C65.818181818182%2C100&w=2400)
![This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-508573194.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.63636363636363%2C0%2C98.727272727273%2C100&w=2400)
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
![Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163308489.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669597327238%2C0%2C66.660805345525%2C100&w=2400)
![Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163308489.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0043959908563451%2C0%2C99.991208018287%2C100&w=2400)
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
![What you need to know about the new Covid-19 vaccine](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2079109518.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.032175689479%2C0%2C71.935648621042%2C100&w=2400)
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Who should actually get the jab, and when?
![Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1026582844.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=4.1954545454545%2C0%2C91.609090909091%2C100&w=2400)
![Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1026582844.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=19.463636363636%2C0%2C61.072727272727%2C100&w=2400)
But there might be global consequences.
![More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1236203134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669642857143%2C0%2C66.660714285714%2C100&w=2400)
![More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1236203134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0044642857142918%2C0%2C99.991071428571%2C100&w=2400)
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
![Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2163384885_eb3cde.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.156862745098%2C0%2C65.686274509804%2C100&w=2400)
![Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2163384885_eb3cde.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.73529411764706%2C0%2C98.529411764706%2C100&w=2400)
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
![Why does it feel like everyone is getting Covid?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2154183194.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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Covid’s summer surge, explained
![Trump’s campaign against public health is back on](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2164714718.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663083207912%2C0%2C66.673833584175%2C100&w=2400)
![Trump’s campaign against public health is back on](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2164714718.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0053746103407519%2C100%2C99.989250779318&w=2400)
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
![Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_VoxFinal_Marina.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
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The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
![Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_AnimalWelfare.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_AnimalWelfare.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
![What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/AMERICAN_GUN_OWNERSHIP-37.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/AMERICAN_GUN_OWNERSHIP-37.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back.
![Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-138000156.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.725507502207%2C0%2C66.548984995587%2C100&w=2400)
![Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-138000156.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.088261253309796%2C0%2C99.82347749338%2C100&w=2400)
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
![Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-632858732.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
![Free medical school won’t solve the doctor shortage](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-608564332_c559a6.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C8.25%2C100%2C83.5&w=2400)
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Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
![France’s elections showed a polarized country](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2160460575.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.66091160221%2C0%2C66.67817679558%2C100&w=2400)
![France’s elections showed a polarized country](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2160460575.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0086311065078561%2C100%2C99.982737786984&w=2400)
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
![The most crucial part of next year’s federal budget](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1231531131.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.852601156069%2C0%2C68.294797687861%2C100&w=2400)
![The most crucial part of next year’s federal budget](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1231531131.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.1919875864015%2C100%2C97.616024827197&w=2400)
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
![What the Labour Party’s big win in the UK will actually mean](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2160473917.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660319878142%2C0%2C66.679360243717%2C100&w=2400)
![What the Labour Party’s big win in the UK will actually mean](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2160473917.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0095183704549768%2C100%2C99.98096325909&w=2400)
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
![If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1412316420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.646622569653%2C0%2C66.706754860694%2C100&w=2400)
![If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1412316420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.03004807692308%2C100%2C99.939903846154&w=2400)
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
![America’s international public health plan is too focused on Americans](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1433271120.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.649803971165%2C0%2C66.70039205767%2C100&w=2400)
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I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
![How dangerous is it really to have a baby in America?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1802092951-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
![TikTok is full of bad health “hacks.” Here’s how to navigate them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1718248545.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=24.996999879995%2C0%2C50.00600024001%2C100&w=2400)
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Beer for a tan? Garlic cloves for sinuses? Don’t fall for the firehose of health BS online.
![What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/FactsOnTheGround_Final_01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/FactsOnTheGround_Final_01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
![Drug-resistant bacteria are killing more and more humans. We need new weapons.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/OhniLisle_Vox_Microbes.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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Scientists are testing futuristic tools to dismantle antibiotic resistance.
![Common sunscreen myths, debunked](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-521771834.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.676245210728%2C0%2C66.647509578544%2C100&w=2400)
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Bottom line: Wearing it is still good advice.
![MDMA’s federal approval drama, briefly explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1220396031.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
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A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
![10 big things we think will happen in the next 10 years](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/08-Future.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
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Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
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With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
![Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25445860/482951406.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C16.6625%2C100%2C66.675&w=2400)
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It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
![The real science behind the billionaire pursuit of immortality](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25374012/CorneliaLi_Vox.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.8125%2C0%2C84.375%2C100&w=2400)
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Longevity research may not let us live forever — but it could still make our lives better in smaller ways.
![No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25430296/GettyImages_1430874216.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.368260427263%2C0%2C67.263479145473%2C100&w=2400)
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A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.
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It is almost hard to believe just how effective vaccines are at saving infants’ lives.