You’re not imagining it. Your ponytail is skinnier, your part does look wider, and yes, all those strands on your pillow are new. If you’ve noticed your hair thinning lately,…

Four and a half years ago, fresh off the success of Operation Warp Speed, mRNA vaccines were widely considered—as President Donald Trump said in December 2020—a “medical miracle.” Last week,…

A not-insignificant number of TikToks aim to convince the viewer that beef-tallow moisturizer will not make your face smell like a cow. The beauty influencers who tend to appear in…

Illustration by Michael Houtz The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets…

We get it, mornings are chaotic. For some reason, there’s never enough time. You’re juggling emails, oat milk lattes, half-done to-do lists, and maybe even a last-minute outfit change. The…

When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings. The experience was terrifying. But some of the employees were not particularly…

Last month, America’s top health officials gathered in downtown Washington for an ice-cream party. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—joined by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins—hunched over…

We all want that magazine-worthy mane—long, lush, and enviable. But, every hair extension method has a cost, and not just in dollars. Starting with the biggest one: your natural hair…

Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s $48 billion budget—a direct rebuke…

For the better part of the past century, the case against nicotine was simple: Smoking a cigarette might feel nice, but it will eventually kill you. Nearly one in five…