Stories by Tanya Lewis

“America’s Doctor” says that our common enemy is the danger posed by viruses, not each other.

RFK, Jr., could restructure the CDC, FDA and NIH in pursuit of his flawed vision of public health. Plus, we discuss chimpanzees at play and the first-ever close-up image of a star.

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could reshape policies from health care at home to nuclear proliferation abroad

Humans and pigs could both serve as mixing vessels for a bird flu–seasonal flu hybrid, posing a risk of wider spread

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells

The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion and IVF

Experts call for greater testing of contacts of a person who was infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain before the virus causes a wider outbreak

Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregnancy and parenthood to people with certain health conditions

A man who received a partial face and eye transplant after a serious accident does not have any vision in the transplanted eye, but the eye itself is still alive

Caring for aging loved ones brings its own set of emotional and physical hurdles. Experts offer guidance on finding support.

A small study of transgender men taking testosterone revealed changes in immune pathways involved in responding to viruses and inflammation

Personal stories and research reveal the challenges of family caregiving.

Opioid overdoses have fallen since their pandemic peak, according to new data from the past few months

Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence

Political violence has a different effect on people today than it did in the past because of social media and extreme partisanship

A combination of human behavior and immunity, the environment, and SARS-CoV-2 itself explains why the virus surges during both hotter and colder months

A Supreme Court decision allows emergency abortion care despite a state ban in Idaho while the case works its way through lower courts

“It would be foolish to declare victory” for abortion rights, one expert says of the recent Supreme Court challenge to medication abortion access

Attacks on Anthony Fauci over guidance on masking and social distancing issued during the COVID pandemic ignore the science on viral spread

Three U.S. dairy workers have been infected with H5N1 after contact with sick cows, and all of them developed eye symptoms

Author and science journalist Deborah Blum describes how an Indiana chemist kicked off the first major food regulation in the U.S.

Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever to receive a genetically modified pig kidney and the first person to receive a heart pump and a transplanted organ together

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.