There are seasons when your hair simply feels tired. It could be due to the heat, the humidity, the back-to-back work and life events, or the constant styling that comes…
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On the Friday after Thanksgiving, Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, made a claim that shocked the public-health establishment. “For the first time,” he wrote in a leaked email…
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For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023, scientists started using it on sickle-cell disease, and Victoria Gray,…
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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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Before the world starts asking things of you, there’s usually a moment where you can have a little time for yourself. It might be early morning before the house wakes…
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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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Good hair days do more than change how you look, they change how you feel. That first glance in the mirror, when your hair looks alive, strong, and effortless? That’s…
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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…