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The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
The Olympics offer a fascinating window into the diets and workout routines of some of the world’s finest athletes, and it would be easy to feel...
An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take...
Another window to stem America’s latest health care cost crisis is about to close. Congress set a self-imposed deadline of January 30 to reach a...
If there is one universal treatment that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again sees for all of the country’s medical problems, it’s...
You’ve probably heard microplastics are everywhere — in our brains, in our hearts, in possibly every single man on earth’s testicles. Studies...
How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don’t drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well,...
Inflammation is on everybody’s minds these days, and it seems like wherever you look, someone is telling you how to reduce your inflammation, from...
Dr. Andrew Carroll, a family physician in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb outside of Phoenix, first arrived there in 2000, the same year the United...
Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to soar after Congress failed Thursday to pass a last-minute plan to...
The federal government is ending its recommendation that every infant receive a hepatitis B vaccination at birth, the most substantive change to the...
We’re used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial,...
This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory. With Robert F. Kennedy at the helm of the US...
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a silent killer that lurks among us, helping to claim millions of lives every year. According to a...
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Unless Congress acts in the next month, up to four million Americans are expected to become uninsured, because they can no longer afford their health...
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul — they can also tell doctors a lot about what’s happening in the rest of our body. Why, then, do I...
Fed up by unaffordable costs and insurance denials, more Americans are fleeing the conventional health care system. Many are seeking to cut out the...
If you’re signing up for Medicare benefits this open enrollment, odds are you aren’t actually enrolling in the traditional government program that...
Many Americans are going to have sticker shock when they sign up for health insurance this year. For the roughly half of Americans who get insurance...
After the Trump administration laid off hundreds of health workers during the ongoing government shutdown, the Centers for Disease Control and...
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the two counts of lying to Congress being brought against him by the Trump...
President Donald Trump announced the latest addition to his personal branding empire this week: TrumpRx, a government website that claims it will...
Five years ago, when actor Chadwick Boseman died at age 43 from colon cancer, it was a genuine shock. Last summer, when Catherine, Princess of Wales,...
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This morning, ousted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez came to the Senate to share her story of being fired by US...
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Most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer — and the alcohol industry is working hard to make sure it stays that way. For...
The simmering showdown between US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has...
For decades, the American public, the federal government, and the medical community have been nearly unanimous: Vaccines are important because they...
The way Jessica Knurick sees it, the Make America Healthy Again movement won over Americans on social media — and so that’s where public...
Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Friday evening this July,...
On Monday evening in Midtown Manhattan, a 27-year-old gunman opened fire in an office building that houses NFL offices, killing four people, including...
On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental...
We are nearing a point of no return for GLP-1 drugs. More than one in 10 Americans have already taken a GLP-1 agonist, be it Ozempic, Wegovy or...
We just got a preview of the likely consequences of the “big, beautiful bill” passed by Republicans in Congress and signed by President Donald...
IUDs have been a promising breakthrough in birth control, offering both convenience and effectiveness, and their use has exploded over the past few...
A Vox reader asks: Are microwaves actually bad for you, your health, and the food you eat? I think anybody who’s ever “nuked” some leftovers or...
The US has now recorded 1,277 measles cases this year, according to case data collected by Johns Hopkins University, making the current outbreak the...
Eating a hot dog on July Fourth isn’t just traditional. It’s patriotic. From iconic red, white, and blue rocket pops (hello, Red Dye 40!) to...
Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a move that will make major changes to Medicaid through...
While public attention has largely been focused on the Middle East and on President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Republicans in Congress are...
There is a lot of advice out there about how much alcohol one should drink. There is research suggesting that drinking could be dangerous, and...
For the past 60 years, a committee of independent experts has advised the federal government on vaccine policy, providing guidance on which shots...
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Ketamine seems to be everywhere — from the nightclub to the psychiatric clinic. Among its growing number of users is Elon Musk, who says he takes...