Photographs by Evan Jenkins This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A Wednesday morning in May is a strange time…
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Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach…
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The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins comes in many forms. Here is Donald Trump’s: A scientist in Wuhan walked outside to have lunch, maybe with a girlfriend or something. “That’s…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. It took just a few hours for devotees of the “Make America healthy…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine activism is not what you’d call subtle. For decades, he has questioned the safety and effectiveness of various childhood vaccines, insisting that some of them…
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Photographs by Sarah Blesener The Toyota pickup hit the tree that May morning with enough explosive force to leave a gash that is still visible on its trunk 39 years…
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Ever since the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk realized that GLP-1 drugs were useful for more than diabetes, doctors and researchers have struggled to answer a deceptively simple question: Who should…
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The surgeon general, America’s doctor, is the public face of medicine in the United States. The job is more educational than it is technical. Vivek Murthy, who was appointed as…
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When you think of food poisoning, perhaps what first comes to mind is undercooked chicken, spoiled milk, or oysters. Personally, I remember the time I devoured a sushi boat as…
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Matthew J. Memoli has had an exceptionally good year. At the beginning of January, Memoli was a relatively little-known flu researcher running a small lab at the National Institute for…