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Health Policy
From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.
In this excerpt from "The Formula for Better Health," Tom Frieden explores how Alice Hamilton transformed public health in her fight against lead poisoning.
For centuries, vaccines have been the top life-saving, expert medical intervention known to humans. How can individuals make the right call?
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
Differences in certain avian and mammalian proteins explain why avian influenza doesn't (typically) infect humans.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.
This is especially true for three key groups.
Today's popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
Unless you're drinking a dozen diet sodas per day, you have nothing to worry about — and maybe not even then.
Retatrutide, Eli Lilly's innovative "triple g" drug, is setting new standards in the fight against obesity.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and "the right thing to do" for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
Some patients wait over 5 years for a liver transplant.
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
"This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before."
Should men be doing kegels?
Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.
"I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient."
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
The placebo effect is not the "power of positive thinking." The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
A divergence in mortality rates between U.S. states suggests that public health policy plays a substantial role in how long people live.