Daniel Engber

The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee

A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins has become a principle of MAGA governance.

A window into how the network is handling the new Trump era

The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.

Jay Bhattacharya has spent years railing against the National Institutes of Health. What happens when he runs it?

A podcast shows how love divides us.

A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

Just use your hand instead!

Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1s drugs are making diet and exercise obsolete.

Empowering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will test one of American public health’s greatest successes.

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

America’s obesity rate looks to be plateauing—again.

In another election, she might have been asked.

How does money-saver mode make sense?

A chronicler of addictions struggles to control himself.

You just don’t see foam collars anymore.

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise.

The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes.

New obesity drugs are remarkable. But few people realize how useful the old ones can be.