public health

Health By Maddie Bender

Three lessons for the effort to scale up Covid-19 rapid tests

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible

First Opinion By Eric Coles

The U.S. deserves the best public health doctors. They needn’t be medical doctors

Health By Erin Brodwin

STAT+ Conversation: Can tech improve health care’s value proposition?

Health By Helen Branswell and Gideon Gil

CDC director defends decision to overrule expert panel on Covid booster shots for health and other frontline workers

Health By Maddie Bender

‘Reaching a detente’ with SARS-CoV-2: Helen Branswell on covering Covid-19, misinformation and more

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An Alzheimer’s scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates

Health By Andrew Joseph

The stages of pandemic emotion: from horror to hope to rage — and now, an anxious optimism

First Opinion By Eric Reinhart

Why U.S. pandemic management has failed: lack of attention to America’s epidemic engines

First Opinion By William F. Haning, III

Overdose prevention sites can save lives and promote recovery. We must be willing to try them

Politics By Nicholas Florko

The government’s Covid-19 response will continue in a shutdown, but health agencies will face major staff shortages

Politics By Lev Facher and Helen Branswell

Biden’s chaotic messaging on Covid-19 boosters is pitting the White House against the government’s scientific advisers

First Opinion By Daniel R. George and Peter Whitehouse

The brain health paradox: Dementia rates have fallen even as drugs have failed

Health By Helen Branswell

FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster for people over 65 or at high risk

First Opinion By Arthur L. Caplan

Do we need vaccine exemption boards?

Health By Olivia Goldhill

‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A community pioneer lost, and remembered

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The land as medicine

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The Guardian of the Glades

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Politics By Nicholas Florko

FDA misses deadline for deciding which e-cigarette products should be removed from the market

Health By Andrew Joseph

How the Delta variant’s remarkable ability to replicate threw new twists into the Covid-19 pandemic

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back to school with Delta

Health By Lev Facher

The White House wants $65 billion for an ‘Apollo’-style pandemic preparedness program