David Wallace-Wells
Why are detectable rates of autism soaring in the U.S. but holding steady in other countries with a history of far better screening? It’s not vaccines or chemicals but ‘diagnosis inflation’
Almost every week, it seems, we read news of some new epidemic — medical, psychological, social. Taken together, these alarming ...
Viewpoint: With weight loss drug prices plummeting, ‘it’s possible to imagine a future in which almost everyone is taking some variety of GLP-1 drug’
Last year was called the year of Ozempic, though it was also a year of Ozempic backlash and Ozempic shortages, which could persist for years ...
‘The horizon of new possibility is blindingly bright’: Boom in genetic medical breakthroughs could extend for years, says CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna
We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear ...
Viewpoint: Pandemic tribalism — Why shreds of COVID origin evidence are hailed by some as incontrovertible proof
Over the past year, we’ve been treated to a series of lab-leak news cycles prompted by vague intelligence reports and ...
Viewpoint: Is discovering the true origins of COVID an ‘arcane sideshow’? Here’s why that argument is terribly wrong
In many ways, you can tally the impact of the coronavirus without having to know whether it jumped to humans ...
US eclipses Europe as global Omicron hot spot
There are already early signs in hospitalization and ICU data that the experience of Omicron in America may be harsher ...