Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Experts are losing a little sleep over the latest Missouri case, but that doesn’t mean you should.
It’s not just the Princess of Wales. More and more young people are getting cancer.
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Who should actually get the jab, and when?
But there might be global consequences.
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
Covid’s summer surge, explained
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back.
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
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.
I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
Beer for a tan? Garlic cloves for sinuses? Don’t fall for the firehose of health BS online.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
Scientists are testing futuristic tools to dismantle antibiotic resistance.
Bottom line: Wearing it is still good advice.
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
Longevity research may not let us live forever — but it could still make our lives better in smaller ways.
A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.
“A billion people at risk”: How worldwide cholera outbreaks are threatening lives.
How conspiring doctors, questionable tonics, and twisted patriotism led to the 1864 Arizona abortion ban that has finally been repealed.
The US Department of Agriculture’s failed response to bird flu in cows, explained.
It is almost hard to believe just how effective vaccines are at saving infants’ lives.