14 Questions About Our Leaders’ Health
Voters deserve transparency.
By Robert Klitzman
Voters deserve transparency.
By Robert Klitzman
We have the tools we need to stop the disease in 2024. Let’s use them.
By Ina Park
What to know about a new U.S. policy.
By Tom Inglesby, Anita Cicero and Marc Lipsitch
We need to rethink how we assess and evaluate physical and mental fitness for the presidency.
By Jeffrey Kuhlman
The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.
By Brad Stulberg
The president is a classic aging case playing out for the country to watch.
By Rachael Bedard
We’re seeing what a modern disinformation operation run by the U.S. looks like. It’s not pretty.
By David Wallace-Wells
Some kids are unable to get the care they need because of a shortage of pediatricians, and the problem could get worse.
By Aaron E. Carroll
It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.
By Kat Morgan and Mark Bittman
We live in an age when people can live longer and healthier even with significant health conditions. What does this mean for future presidents?
By Daniela J. Lamas
Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.
By Michelle Goldberg
We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.
By Michael Waters
The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.
By W.J. Hennigan
Glenn Kramon discusses the coincidences that led him to realize how critical immigration was to his recent cancer battle.
By Glenn Kramon
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Here’s who needs to worry right now.
By Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Hospital outpatient departments, or HOPDs, are encouraging a surprise scourge on medical costs. It’s patients who bear the burden.
By Danielle Ofri
It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.
By Vivek H. Murthy
The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.
By Cornelia Channing
A man reflects on his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s and what it has taught him as he faces his own diagnosis with the disease.
By Stephen Gettinger
How harm reduction can work in a red state.
By Maia Szalavitz
Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.
By David Wallace-Wells
The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.
By Jeff Goodell
The virus is changing.
By Rick Bright
Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.
By Maia Szalavitz
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The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.
By Linda Greenhouse
We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.
By John M. Barry
An interview with America’s top public health official about new challenges and the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Jyoti Thottam
Involuntary treatment too often requires a court order.
By Sandeep Jauhar
The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.
By Margaret Renkl
We need to rethink the policy of preserving families, seemingly at all costs.
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
The near-impossible challenge of parenting an adult with severe mental illness.
By Jessica Grose
Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.
By Johann Hari
Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.
By Carl Elliott
The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.
By David Wallace-Wells
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We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.
By Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis
The effects of semaglutide drugs won’t be just cosmetic.
By David Wallace-Wells
Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?
By Daniela J. Lamas
To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.
By Kathleen Blackburn
A number of new tech companies want to solve the opioid crisis with algorithms. It’s a flawed and potentially harmful proposition.
By Maia Szalavitz
The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.
By Stephen Markley
A new product for preventing cavities doesn’t have F.D.A. approval or promising clinical trials, but it does have customers.
By David Wallace-Wells
A simple yet radical approach in Asia is equipping medical patients and their loved ones with the knowledge they need to heal themselves.
By Vidya Krishnan and Gayatri Ganju
Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.
By Deborah Heaney
The term creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any.
By Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven
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A regulated market for donations could help end the shortage of these organs for transplant.
By Dylan Walsh
How does a newly diagnosed patient balance privacy with public honesty?
By Daniela J. Lamas
Our leaders should turn their attention to Americans’ worsening life expectancy.
By Ashwin Vasan
Restrictions on pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.
By Shravani Durbhakula
Her special is a harbinger of how the weight-loss industry is rebranding: Obesity is a disease, and — for the first time — it’s not your fault.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
Covid is now a permanent part of our lives. Are we finally ready to accept that?
By Daniela J. Lamas
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