Legal Weed Is Coming. It’s Time to Come Up With Some Rules.
Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.
By Maia Szalavitz
Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.
By Maia Szalavitz
The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.
By Linda Greenhouse
We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.
By John M. Barry
An interview with America’s top public health official about new challenges and the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Jyoti Thottam
Involuntary treatment too often requires a court order.
By Sandeep Jauhar
The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.
By Margaret Renkl
We need to rethink the policy of preserving families, seemingly at all costs.
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
The near-impossible challenge of parenting an adult with severe mental illness.
By Jessica Grose
Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.
By Johann Hari
Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.
By Carl Elliott
The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.
By David Wallace-Wells
We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.
By Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis
The effects of semaglutide drugs won’t be just cosmetic.
By David Wallace-Wells
Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?
By Daniela J. Lamas
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To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.
By Kathleen Blackburn
A number of new tech companies want to solve the opioid crisis with algorithms. It’s a flawed and potentially harmful proposition.
By Maia Szalavitz
The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.
By Stephen Markley
A new product for preventing cavities doesn’t have F.D.A. approval or promising clinical trials, but it does have customers.
By David Wallace-Wells
A simple yet radical approach in Asia is equipping medical patients and their loved ones with the knowledge they need to heal themselves.
By Vidya Krishnan and Gayatri Ganju
Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.
By Deborah Heaney
The term creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any.
By Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven
A regulated market for donations could help end the shortage of these organs for transplant.
By Dylan Walsh
How does a newly diagnosed patient balance privacy with public honesty?
By Daniela J. Lamas
Our leaders should turn their attention to Americans’ worsening life expectancy.
By Ashwin Vasan
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Restrictions on pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.
By Shravani Durbhakula
Her special is a harbinger of how the weight-loss industry is rebranding: Obesity is a disease, and — for the first time — it’s not your fault.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
Covid is now a permanent part of our lives. Are we finally ready to accept that?
By Daniela J. Lamas
Ozempic threatens to bust the national budget. That may finally force the government to address the problem of overly expensive medical treatments.
By Brian Deese, Jonathan Gruber and Ryan Cummings
Though moral hazard is a powerful concept for thinking about risk in economics, it’s a flawed approach to designing drug policy.
By Maia Szalavitz
Its decision that embryos are people offers a warning of the future toward which America may be heading.
By Linda Greenhouse
Gene therapies could transform how we treat rare diseases. But will everyone have access?
By Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Vaccination levels aren’t actually in free fall. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe.
By David Wallace-Wells
Future generations will see breakthroughs that cure many kinds of diseases. But where does that leave current patients?
By Daniela J. Lamas
The answer, only now coming into view, explains why that awful year still has us in its grip.
By Eric Klinenberg
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No one should be left in agony because of false beliefs that withholding pain treatment protects against addiction.
By Maia Szalavitz
The justices should leave it to federal agencies to resolve ambiguities Congress creates when it writes laws those agencies enforce.
By Jody Freeman and Andrew Mergen
The child care crisis, which has intensified since pandemic-era funding expired in September, is placing an undue and unhealthy burden on American parents.
By Molly Dickens and Lucy Hutner
Even if the war ends tomorrow, its effects will last a lifetime for new mothers and their children.
By Alice Rothchild
This year is a critical moment to make home care accessible to all Americans who need it.
By Rachael Scarborough King
We should seize the moment right now to build a new set of protections against future public health crises.
By Atul Gawande
An A.L.S. drug rejected by the F.D.A. made me rethink how doctors should give hope to patients.
By Daniela J. Lamas
More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a drug that caused severe birth defects.
By Linda Greenhouse
Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.
By Giorgia Lupi
We have the tools we need to create a world where addiction is just one aspect of people’s lives instead of a dark portal to despair and early death.
By Jeneen Interlandi and Damon Winter
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No matter how dark the days, we can find light in our own hearts, and we can be one another’s light.
By Mary Pipher
Community hospitals have been caught doing some surprising things, given how they are supposed to serve the public good.
By Amol S. Navathe
Congress has a chance to eliminate hepatitis C in the United States.
By Francis Collins
We need to create a gold standard of care to treat patients with peripheral artery disease.
By Anahita Dua
Food scarcity and malnutrition could plunge Gaza into a crisis outlasting the war.
By Catherine Russell
Suppressing your opinions and emotions to keep the peace could come at the expense of your own physical and mental well-being.
By Sunita Sah
Why did it take so long?
By Helen Ouyang
Communities don’t have to choose between saving lives and stopping crime. The data is proof.
By Maia Szalavitz
Looking after a sick family member can mean putting your own life on hold, often with little recognition or outside support.
By Catherine Pearson
Tough regulation is needed to combat abusive practices.
By Maia Szalavitz
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For Gaza’s largest hospital, a plea for humanity.
By Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
When women say that it is better to be sick and thin than healthy and fat, they are perfectly rational.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
If you accept that you know very little, but hope to know a little more, discovering that you were wrong about something feels exciting rather than painful.
By Adam Mastroianni
The immunologist Michael Mina says even its worst aspects should have been expected from a new pathogen for which there was no immunity.
By David Wallace-Wells
Americans are less obsessed with adding years to their lives and more focused on making their existing years richer and healthier.
By Dave A. Chokshi
Calling something cancer can lead to aggressive treatment even if the cancer in question is unlikely to cause problems.
By Laura Esserman and Scott Eggener
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