Health and Disease

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

RFK Jr., American Psycho RFK Jr., American Psycho

He needs to go. Now.

Sep 4, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Employees with Project Weber-Renew in Providence, Rhode Island.

This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.

Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon

Unhealthy Head of Health

Unhealthy Head of Health Unhealthy Head of Health

RFK Jr. dismantles vaccination programs.

Aug 20, 2025 / OppArt / David Small

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. stands behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office

In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading

Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public health infrastructure

Aug 13, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections

Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections Young People Are Using ChatGPT for Therapy, but the Conversations Lack Privacy and Protections

Therapy is now one of the leading uses of AI. But unlike traditional therapy notes, which are privileged, transcripts with chatbots carry no such shield.

Aug 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Chelsea Lubbe and Ray Epstein

University faculty and students protest the detention and deportation of students under the Trump administration with a march and rally on April 17, 2025, in New York City.

If We Want to Save Public Health, We Need to Get Out of Our Bubble If We Want to Save Public Health, We Need to Get Out of Our Bubble

The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces.

Aug 8, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a roundtable discussion on soil health in the Mike Mansfield Room at the US Capitol on July 15, 2025

RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon

How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.

Jul 24, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Caritas Christi CEO Ralph de la Torre at Norwood Hospital.

Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch

And the price the rest of us pay—in money and in blood.

Jul 14, 2025 / Chuck Collins

A sign warning of measles is posted on a glass door as a patients wait in the family medicine wing of at the Texas Tech Physicians of the Permian Basin Monday, February 24, 2025, in Odessa, Texas.

America Is Sliding Into the Abyss America Is Sliding Into the Abyss

Our science and health infrastructure lies in tatters. Once-dead viruses are roaring back to life. Many people will die. In other words, we’ve reached the point of no return.

Jul 10, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.) Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions.

Jul 9, 2025 / Marc Frank

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