The 2025 Future Perfect 25
When we launched Vox’s Future Perfect section in 2018, it began with a simple question: “What topics would we write ...
Tag: Public Health
One of the world’s most influential philanthropies is changing its name. Here’s why it matters.
Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been the rare philanthropic shop with both the resources and the rigor to ...
Your washing machine is actually a time machine
If Good News had a patron saint, it would be the Swedish professor of global health Hans Rosling.Rosling, who died ...
Pandemics are a choice
For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic.From the earliest thinking of the ...
We can fix the goofy way we pay for vision care in the US
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul — they can also tell doctors a lot about what’s happening ...
The Ozempic effect is finally showing up in obesity data
For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it was launched, ...
No, your protein powder isn’t poisoning you
Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead.That, at least, is the ...
Cities are booming with bikes — and getting safer and cleaner
While walking my son to school a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening on Court Street, a ...
The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV
How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds?For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s ...
Lead-acid batteries are poisoning the Global South. Here are 3 proven ways to stop that.
Remember the Flint, Michigan, water crisis? The public health disaster that, at its peak, poisoned nearly 5 percent of the ...
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