Articles by Dylan Scott
AI is the hottest thing in medical care right now but many of us feel trepidation about it. Just one illustrative public survey sample: An October 2025 KFF poll found just 8 percent of Americans repoοΏ½...
As if we needed one more thing to worry about so soon after the hantavirus scare, there is a new public health threat for Americans to contend with: a rapidly escalating outbreak of, of all things, dοΏ½...
As I am typing this, a device rests on my wrist that purports to unlock a trove of real-time information about my bodys performance. I can click a button and check my heart rate and review how much iοΏ½...
Alcohol use in the United States has reached historic lows. Thats good news for the publics health. A 2024 study from the CDC concluded that alcohol was the direct or indirect cause of more than 175,οΏ½...
An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States if only wed take advantage of it.
Im talking about the shingles vaccine.
It wοΏ½...
If there is one universal treatment that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s Make America Healthy Again sees for all of the countrys medical problems, its food.
Borrowing a phrase that has become ubiquitous in hοΏ½...
A version of this story appeared in Good Medicine, a new Vox newsletter for anyone trying to make sense of their health.
Inflammation is on everybodys minds these days, and it seems like wherever yοΏ½...
Dr. Andrew Carroll, a family physician in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb outside of Phoenix, first arrived there in 2000, the same year the United States declared measles had been eradicated. Now, 25 yeοΏ½...
This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory.
With Robert F. Kennedy at the helm of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the federalοΏ½...
Were used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial, Williams traded the racket for a GLP-1 drug injector pοΏ½...
