Updated at 10:56 a.m. on March 14, 2025 Until the second Trump administration took over, the National Institutes of Health—the world’s single largest public funder of biomedical research—was not in…
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The wonder of the American supermarket is the way it exists outside of seasons. Stroll into any major grocery store on a dreary winter day, and you’ll find a bounty…
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In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that I was afraid to write an article that risked…
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Photographs by Jake Dockins Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded…
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March is special for us at Sitting Pretty because March 8 is International Women’s Day, and what better way to honor a woman-led business than by helping you embrace the…
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Until this year, public-health officials have abided by a simple playbook for measles outbreaks: Get unvaccinated people vaccinated, as quickly as possible. The measles component of the measles, mumps, and…
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In October 2020, Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, sent an email that maligned a colleague. A few days before, Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of…
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Leading the FDA has long been one of the greatest professional achievements in American health. At the start of every administration, doctors jockey for the role, hoping to steer an…
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Last month, during Elon Musk’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, as he hoisted a chain saw in the air, stumbled over some of his words, and questioned whether…
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For his second presidential term, Donald Trump stacked his health team with men who disdain the medical consensus. Mehmet Oz, who awaits Senate confirmation as the head of the Centers…