disease

April 29, 2025

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Technology

AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

Matteo Wong

April 25, 2025

Time-Travel Thursdays

Life Before the Measles Vaccine

Stephanie Bai

April 17, 2025

This placard was a medical warning notice affixed to the doors of a household containing a sick individual with a transmittable disease. This dates from 1923 and was issued by the Board of Health.

Health

Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

Bruce Handy

April 16, 2025

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Health

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

Health

What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

Sarah Zhang

April 7, 2025

A blurred face with a matrix of red dots across it

Time-Travel Thursdays

What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About the Past

Lila Shroff

April 3, 2025

A photo of RFK Jr next to a picture of a scale

COVID-19: Five Years Later

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

Rebecca Nagle

April 1, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Evermaskers

Daniel Engber

April 1, 2025

A mask floating in front of a woman's gauzy face

Health

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps

Shayla Love

March 23, 2025

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Health

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

Collage of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shaking hands, a bar graph showing an upward trend in red bars and red dots

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

Sunita Puri

March 18, 2025

A distorted image of an empty hospital bed

COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

Roxanne Khamsi

March 11, 2025

Health

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

Tom Bartlett

March 11, 2025

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Health

America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

Ideas

Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Conor Friedersdorf

March 7, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different

Lora Kelley

March 4, 2025

A wooden sign reads "MEASLES TESTING" and has an arrow pointing to the left

Health

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

Benjamin Mazer

February 27, 2025

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Ideas

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

Emily Oster

February 13, 2025

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Books Briefing

A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing

Boris Kachka

February 7, 2025

Health

America Can’t Just Unpause USAID

Hana Kiros

February 4, 2025

Health

The Last Days of American Orange Juice

Yasmin Tayag

February 4, 2025

A retro illustrated advertisement for orange juice "grown in the U.S.A.," featuring a tall glass of juice with a straw and a partially peeled orange.

Health

The Return of Snake Oil

Shayla Love

January 30, 2025

A pair of hands hold an elixir bottle with light and sparkles emanating from it

Health

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

Katherine J. Wu

January 28, 2025

A graphic illustration showing a black-and-white photo of a syringe and a vial over a black-grid background

Health

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

Benjamin Mazer

January 27, 2025

A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. surrounded by a pattern of interlocking red lines

Politics

The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know

David Axelrod

January 23, 2025

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Health

How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail

Katherine J. Wu

January 22, 2025

A vaccine syringe replaces the needle on an illustration of a compass.

The Atlantic Daily

How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

Lora Kelley

January 15, 2025

Swabbing a rooster to test for avian influenza

Health

Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over

Kristen V. Brown

January 15, 2025

Collage of hands framing a crystal ball in which an ultrasound image is visible

Health

Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment

Katherine J. Wu

January 10, 2025

Being Human

Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong.

Jason Liebowitz

January 2, 2025

A video showing cells and genetic materials.

Ideas

The Most Important Breakthroughs of 2024

Derek Thompson

December 29, 2024

Illustration of a rocket ship, vaccine, a double helix DNA molecule, and computer circuit paths

Health

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

Yasmin Tayag

December 19, 2024

Birds superimposed over a vintage map of the United States

Health

Bedbugs Could Be More Horrifying Than You Think

Kristen V. Brown

December 4, 2024

Being Human

The Cancer Gene More Men Should Test For

Kristen V. Brown

November 20, 2024

Politics

What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like

Olga Khazan

November 19, 2024

Photo of RFK Jr. walking on stage with two large American flags standing beside him

Sections

The Print Edition

The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

Life Before the Measles Vaccine

Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About the Past

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

The Evermaskers

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

America Is Botching Measles

Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again

Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing

America Can’t Just Unpause USAID

The Last Days of American Orange Juice

The Return of Snake Oil

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know

How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail

How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over

Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment

Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong.

The Most Important Breakthroughs of 2024

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

Bedbugs Could Be More Horrifying Than You Think

The Cancer Gene More Men Should Test For

What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like