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No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

Beth Cameron, Jon Finer, and Stephanie Psaki

August 11, 2025

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Canada Is Killing Itself

Elaina Plott Calabro

September 2025 Issue

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The Dangerous Logic of CTE Self-Diagnosis

July 29, 2025

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The Obvious Reason the U.S. Should Not Vaccinate Like Denmark

Katherine J. Wu

July 24, 2025

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Medicaid Cuts Will Be a Disaster for ERs

Sophia Spadafore

July 22, 2025

A gif illustration of a hospital building flashing red.

I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won.

August 2025 Issue

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Brace Yourself for Watery Mayo and Spiky Ice Cream

June 25, 2025

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How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin

June 17, 2025

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The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee

June 13, 2025

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Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

June 13, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

The Best Wellness Advice Has Always Been Free

June 12, 2025

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Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria

June 10, 2025

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The Conversations Trump’s Doctors Should Be Having With Him

May 29, 2025

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COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

Katherine J. Wu

May 21, 2025

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The MAHA Crowd Is Already Questioning Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis

May 19, 2025

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Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight

May 12, 2025

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DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

David Michaels and Gregory Wagner

May 10, 2025

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How to Define Old Age

Natalie Brennan and Yasmin Tayag

May 5, 2025

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America’s Pro-Disease Movement

April 30, 2025

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The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

Marion Renault and Cheney Orr

April 29, 2025

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AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

April 25, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

Life Before the Measles Vaccine

April 17, 2025

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Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

April 16, 2025

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Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

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What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

April 7, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About the Past

April 3, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

April 1, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Evermaskers

April 1, 2025

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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps

March 23, 2025

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What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

March 18, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

March 11, 2025

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His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

March 11, 2025

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America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Conor Friedersdorf

March 7, 2025

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Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different

March 4, 2025

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