
RFK Jr. Is Out for Revenge
The health secretary’s indiscriminate layoffs will undermine his own priorities.
Our health writers explore wellness culture, human behavior, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.

The health secretary’s indiscriminate layoffs will undermine his own priorities.

Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.

The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.

You’re essentially gnawing on plastic.

Kennedy made a show of shipping vitamin A to measles-stricken communities. The state’s public-health department didn’t take up the offer.

Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

The case for a Department of Food

Why do people enjoy doing difficult things?

Plant-based eating has lost its appeal.

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?