My house was dark. Tinfoil covered the windows. The only light I could tolerate came from dimmable red bulbs. Ten weeks before, I had…
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“It breaks my brain sometimes,” Dennis Rosloniec told me. For half a decade now, the 44-year-old media technician and mountain biker from Green Bay,…
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At the turn of the 20th century, William Wrigley Jr. was bent on building an empire of gum, and as part of his extensive…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., staring down his first major health crisis as the head of Health and Human Services, had a plan. After Texas…
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By design, clinical trials ask their participants to take on risk. To develop new vaccines, drugs, or therapies, scientists first have to ask volunteers…
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If there was a mascot to represent everything that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees wrong with food, it would be Big Daddy’s Primo Pizza.…
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There are, at last count, nine different medals you can earn at the Comrades Marathon, a historic 55-mile race that runs between the South…
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Making America healthy again, it seems, starts with a double cheeseburger and fries. Earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited a…
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Photographs by Elliott Verdier In March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and prepared…
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For most of the past century, the United States’ track record on infectious disease has been quite good. Thanks to major investments in public…