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Donald Trump, the Smokers’ President
What one entrepreneur calls ‘the jihad from our liberal elite against nicotine’ has made smoking a conservative cause.
River Page
Free Press LIVE: My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better.
Join Nellie Bowles, Sean Fischer and Vinay Prasad on Alzheimer's, health and misdiagnosis.
The Free Press
WATCH: How Not to Die in 2025
Bryan Johnson is spending his life with a singular goal: never ending it. The tech entrepreneur talks to Bari Weiss about his quest for immortality.
Bari Weiss
1HR 17M
My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better.
My family experienced a miracle last year. It began with a tragedy.
Sean Fischer
RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right?
A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the…
Sally Satel
Want to Be Happier? Use These Five Charts to Improve Your Life.
We all want the same thing—and it has very little to do with money.
Esther Haynes
Polio Ravaged My Family. Forget Its Horror at Your Peril.
Thanks to the miracle of the vaccine, there has not been a single indigenously acquired case of the disease in the U.S. since 1979. Could that progress…
Jana Kozlowski
How to Fix the NIH
Too many Americans are chronically ill. The new director of our National Institutes of Health has a mandate to change this.
Joseph Marine
The ‘Wild, Wild West’ of the American Egg Donor Industry
It’s sold as an easy way to make money and help others. Nobody mentions the long-term risks. ‘I never saw this coming.’
Rina Raphael
Poetic Justice for Jay Bhattacharya
During the pandemic, the NIH director called for a ‘takedown’ of the Stanford scientist’s ideas. Now he’s poised to run the NIH himself.
The Editors
Should a Government Help People Die?
UK lawmakers claim an assisted suicide bill offers a compassionate death. But is it just a way to save money? Madeleine Kearns reports.
Madeleine Kearns
The Case Against RFK Jr.
A man who asserts nonsense about vaccines and HIV should not be at the helm of Health and Human Services, writes former Harvard Medical School dean…
Jeffrey S. Flier
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