List of Health articles
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The facade of the British Prime Minister's residence, 10 Downing Street, is covered in scaffolding as essential cleaning and maintenance work is carried out, in London, on August 4, 2008. Britain Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Brexit
The official investigation into the U.K.’s pandemic response has revealed a fundamentally dysfunctional state.
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A worker wearing a black T-shirt and backward baseball cap hoists a fog machine as they spray steam at mosquito larvae growing in a puddle between a row of motorcycles on a street in Kathmandu. A Dangerous Disease Spreads in a Hotter Nepal
Dengue-carrying mosquitoes are spreading to mountains where they were once unknown.
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A woman wearing a pink and green sari steps down from the front step of a house and onto an unpaid road. Behind her, a young boy stands in the doorway and stretches his arms out toward her. Another woman holds a baby deeper inside the house. India’s Public Health Depends on Private Exploitation
A celebrated health program relies on the labor of mistreated women.
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An extremely dry, cracked lakebed is seen with a city building in the far distance. El Niño Is Coming—and It’s Going to Be Bad
The weather-related hazards will hit hardest in countries that are ill-equipped for the economic and political fallout.
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Charmante Kapinga sits on a chair holding her young son as a nurse prepares to weigh him before a routine vaccination at the Mervedi medical center outside Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Shadow of the Next Pandemic Looms in a Virus Hotspot
Low vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises the risk of diseases spreading and adapting undetected.
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A model of SARS-CoV-2 is displayed during a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 2, 2020. The Pandemic Is Over. What Does That Even Mean?
COVID-19 isn’t a pandemic anymore. It’s just a never-ending nightmare.
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A photo taken on March 31 in Manta, Italy, shows a computer screen with the home page of the artificial intelligence OpenAI website, displaying its ChatGPT bot. How GPT Mania Could Harm AI Innovation
The scramble to win the GPT race could divert essential resources from the development of more socially meaningful uses of AI.
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Masks photographed in a studio Face Masks Are Our COVID-19 Memorial
America’s remaining maskers are a living emblem of a lost war.
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security guard stands outside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China How American Journalists Watched China’s COVID-19 Crisis Unfold
The pandemic’s outbreak brought rare reporting freedoms.
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Sam Bankman-Fried speaks onstage during a charity gala in New York City. Sam Bankman-Fried’s Real Victims Aren’t in Crypto
Charity can’t be dependent on the whims of billionaires.
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The U.S. State Department headquarters is seen in Washington. The State Department Makes Life Difficult for Breastfeeding Mothers
At some U.S. missions abroad, diplomats are banned from bringing breast pumps into their offices.
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Patients are treated in a hospital in Beijing. COVID-Ravaged Chinese Public Is Desperate for Paxlovid
Beijing failed to prepare antiviral supplies before new outbreak.
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A resident looks through a hole in the fence from inside a locked-down area in Beijing under covid-19 restrictions. China’s COVID-19 Failure Isn’t a Win for Democracy
The pandemic years strained every system of government.
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Patients with COVID-19 lie in beds at Tangshan Gongren Hospital in China's northeastern city of Tangshan. The Chinese Public Doesn’t Know Who to Trust Anymore
Amid rampant COVID outbreaks, people are confused and scared.
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A picture of China's President Xi Jinping with a face mask is displayed as people visit an exhibition about China's fight against Covid in Wuhan on Jan. 15, 2021. China’s Government Is a Self-Made COVID-19 Victim
The country’s pandemic experience should be remembered as a political, not a public health, catastrophe.
