Wellness isn’t just about mindfulness, exercise, or the right skin routine. Science, politics, media
Environmental injustice leaves too many Americans, mainly Black and brown, breathing air that has be
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The concept of “excited delirium” has been used to justify extreme force from law enforcement and to
Hospitals can charge you however much they want for healthcare — without telling you. Rapper turned
The Supreme Court is an unelected body–there was a time when the justices understood that. Not this
Recently, the FDA approved a genetic test for opioid use disorder despite clear opposition from scie
To the untrained eye, public health and healthcare are–if not the same thing–then two sides of the s
The pandemic didn’t change everything–it just made everything weird. From declining trust in institu
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Too many politicians are too beholden to the healthcare industry to propose any meaningful change. T
Trauma is all around us–and the word has come to dominate so much of our conversation about mental h
Millions of Americans go without healthcare every year. Many of them turn to crowdfunding to support
The H5N1 Bird Flu has been circulating in cows for 5 months, spreading faster and farther than we ha
The Anti-Diet movement has helped us understand some of the downsides of a perpetual diet culture dr
For so many Americans, pets are members of the family. And our interactions with animals — in our ho
Public health professionals are people, too. Too often, though, we don’t think about them that way —
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In a time when AI is creating new realities faster than we can make sense of them, we need to imagin
Maternal and child health inequities by race are a blot on our national fabric. But fixing them isn’
