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When Science Became the Enemy (2/23/26 - Cover)
This is How We Lose Vaccines (12/30/25)
The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming (8/28/25)
What is the Point of Treating N.I.H. This Way (4/11/25)
The Key is Not to Panic (11/21/24 - Cover)
The Public Health System We Need (April 2020)
Addiction, Mental Illness
48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Very Few Get Help. Here’s How to Change That. (12/13/23)
Repeal the Crackhouse Statute (12/22/23)
The Case for Harm Reduction, Editorial
The Case for Harm Reduction (2/22/23 - SR Print Cover)
To End the War on Drugs, Change these Laws (12/12/22)
The Failed Quest for Community Mental Health (10/4/22)
The Harris Project (6/24/22 - SR Print Cover 7/3)
In the Opioid Epidemic, More Causes for Hope (8/8/21)
Big Pharma is Starting to Pay for the Opioid Crisis. Make Those Payments Count
Fear, Loathing, Fentanyl Exposure
Want to Reduce Overdose Deaths? Get People the Medication They Need.
If Addiction is a Disease, Why is Relapsing a Crime
The Mothers Society Condemns
The Mothers Society Condemns, II
The Crazy Talk About Asylums
Infectious Disease
To Fight Polio, Stop Otherizing Orthodox Communities (8/17/22)
First Shots For All Over Boosters For Some (9/25/21 - Editorial)
Global Vaccine Equity (9/25/21 - Sunday Review)
Get Vaccinated. Get Masked. It’s the Only Way Out of This Mess (8/5/21)
It’s too soon to declare victory (7/4/21)
The U.S. is failing a moral test on vaccines (5/14/21)
The world needs many more coronavirus vaccines (4/24/21)
Pausing JnJ makes sense (4/13/21)
More shots are coming. We need to address barriers to vaccination (2/26/21)
What are the vaccine roadblocks where you live (2/25/21)
Governors should not ease restrictions yet (2/10/21)
We are flying blind on vaccine rollout (2/7/21)
The New President Has a Covid Plan (1/16/21)
Vaccines Are Going to Waste (12/31/20)
We need more and better genomic surveillance (12/22/20)
Vaccination will be even more challenging than Vaccines (12/09/20)
The Third Surge Arrives (11/16/20)
How to Holiday During Covid (Hint: Stay Home) (10/29/20)
The Covid Race Gap, Explained (10/3/20 - Sunday Review Cover)
What Comes Next (9/18/20 - Sunday Review Cover)
President Trump is a Lying Liar (9/9/20)
How Many of These 68,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved (9/5/20)
Your Coronavirus Testing Questions Answered (8/26/20)
We Need A National Testing Plan (8/16/20)
America Could Control The Pandemic by October (8/8/20)
Trump’s Denialism is Going to Get Us Killed (6/23/20)
Instead of Canceling the W.H.O., How About Fixing It (6/13/20)
Covid-19’s Biggest Lesson: Americans Need Public Health for All (4/9/20)
How America Can Reopen (3/30/20)
The Epic Failure of Coronavirus Testing (3/19/20)
Stop Saying Everything is Under Control (3/17/20)
It’s Time to Declare a National Emergency (3/12/20)
Coronavirus & The Public Charge Rule (3/6/20)
Here Comes the Coronavirus Pandemic (2/29/20)
Is the World Ready for Coronavirus (1/29/20)
We Know How to Conquer Tuberculosis
The Fatal Flaw in Trump’s HIV Plan
Measles Is Making A Comeback. Here’s How to Stop It.
How to Inoculate Against the Anti-Vaxxers
Time is Running Out to Stop Ebola’s Spread
Peter Hotez Is Not A Sorcerer
Ebola, Tuberculosis, Cures and Hurdles
Ebola, Amnesia and Donald Trump (5/22/18)
Regulatory
Save America’s Patent System (4/16/2022)
When Science Is Pushed Aside (10/16/20)
The F.D.A. Commissioner’s Fuzzy Math (8/25/20)
Politicizing Regulatory Policy Will Cost American Lives (8/24/20)
The F.D.A. is in Trouble. Here’s How to Fix It (1/11/20)
How Has This Pesticide Not Been Banned
A $2 Million Drug, Bad Data & the F.D.A.’s Credibility Problem
It’s Time For a Reckoning on Medical Devices.
Cosmetic Regulations Need an Update
Easier Drug Approvals are Not Cutting Drug Prices
Is Baby Powder Safe? Does Industry Even Care?
Don’t Ban E-cigs
We Still Don’t Know How Safe Vaping Is
Big Tobacco’s Bait & Switch
Gun Violence
Even Before the Tears Stopped, She Took Action
Why Don’t We Know More About Gun Safety
Another Young Voice Silenced By Bullets
We Know How To Address School Shootings. So Why Aren't We?
Pharmaceuticals
Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Bill is Good
Sound, Fury, and Prescription Drugs
Gilead’s Gift Horse
It’s Time for Pharmaceutical Companies to Have Their Big Tobacco Moment
The News on Drug Prices? Nothing Good
How the Government Can Lower Drug Prices
Health Policy
Employer-Based Insurance, Meet Massive Unemployment (6/29/20)
The Nurses Calling for Medicare-for-All
How Much Will Americans Sacrifice for Good Health Care
A Voter’s Guide to Health Policy
Do Poor People Have a Right to Health Care?
The Quiet War Against Reliable Medical Information
The Health Care Stalkers
Medicaid's Nickel-and-Dime Routine
G.O.P. Wants Hungry Kids to Fund Tax Cuts
Biotech / Bioethics
Republicans Once Supported Fetal Tissue Research
This Editorial is Not About Designer Babies
23andMe
Should Scientists Toy With the Secret of Life
Medicine’s Financial Contamination
Migrant Children
Of Flores & Flu Shots
Hundreds of Children Rot In The Desert
An Unhealthy Plan to Drive Out Immigrants
Coming of Age in American Detention
Don't Let Migrant Kids Rot
Misc
She Beat Cancer. Now She’s in Another Fight For Her Life
A Promise Step In Tackling Childhood Cancer
Why Breast Feeding Scares Donald Trump
Personal Essays
Me, My Twin, and Donald Trump (11/4/20)
The World Lost Emile Bruneau When We Needed Him Most (11/2/20)
Living with Alzheimer’s