In case there was any doubt before, it’s now undeniable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies are in charge of the country’s vaccine policy. The latest evidence: His handpicked vaccine…
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Throughout the 2000s, the music charts were rife with references to Rogaine. Jay-Z invoked the hair-restoration drug as a synonym for staying power. Weezer described it, begrudgingly, as a means…
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“Ozempic is about to be old news,” my colleague Yasmin Tayag wrote in 2023, just before an even more powerful obesity drug, tirzepatide, then best known as Mounjaro, was approved.…
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There’s a fairy tale about Thanksgiving that gets refuted every fall. Does eating turkey really make you fall asleep? When science writers check in with the experts, they always get…
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Photographs by Elinor Carucci Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that…
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Let me make a small concession on behalf of the medical community: The CDC is technically correct when it asserts, as it did this week in a surprise update to…
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Gas-station weed was never supposed to exist. And yet, convenience stores across the country—even in states where marijuana is illegal—sell a trove of fizzy drinks, vape pens, and confections all…
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If Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, did bother to ask CDC scientists about using their website to turn anti-vaccine talking points into agency guidance,…
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Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting…
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Medical weight loss might be on the verge of a further revolution. For starters, people will likely have the option of taking a new class of medications that seem to…