Wellness isn’t just about mindfulness, exercise, or the right skin routine. Science, politics, media
America Dissected comes to you LIVE from Boston at the American Public Health Association Annual Mee
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Nobody quite represents the seedy underbelly of American medicine like Dr. Oz. His career is a livin
So much of public health revolves around collective action — that is government working on our behal
Following the murder of George Floyd in the context of the pandemic, communities across the country
More than 50% of the thinking part of the human brain is dedicated to processing visual information.
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What would have happened if, like flouride, the COVID vaccine would have just been in the water? Tha
Organ transplantation is one of the miracles of modern medicine. And yet the system that we use to m
Traditional science-based medicine has some gaps—but what happens when grifters and scammers take ad
The pandemic drove major increases in depression, anxiety, and ADHD. But rates of ADHD–and its treat
The anti-abortion movement notched a terrible win six weeks ago. But reasserting the right to a safe
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a lot of things…including a healthcare reform bill. Along wit
It’s early August–it’s hot and sunny. And for many people, it’s sunburn season. But the long-term co
50 years ago, it was discovered that the United States Public Health Service and the CDC–the federal
The president of the United States has COVID. Again. Abdul reflects on what this signals in the pand
The fall of Roe has opened up the risk that authorities could use data from period tracking apps or
For most of human history, people believed that blood flow was a one-way thing. The discovery that b
As HIV/AIDS ravaged the gay community in the 1980s, the federal government was slow to respond owing
Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court Decision protecting reproductive rights in America for half a centur
