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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Peer-Review Dilemma
Scientific publication can be a constraining, flattening, and maddening process—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty What Does It Mean to Die of Heat?
Mortality numbers often end up having more to do with politics than science.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Taylor Hill / … Elizabeth Holmes Isn’t Fooling Anyone
Neither are the journalists who cover her.
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Getty; The Atlantic The FDA’s New ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Policy for Blood Donation
It’s still discrimination.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Inflated Risk of Vaccine-Induced Cardiac Arrest
Damar Hamlin’s collapse on Monday Night Football calls attention to a medical myth that will not die.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic COVID Science Is Moving Backwards
We’ve let the data slip away.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID
After you’re infected, the first few months may pose the greatest risks.
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The Atlantic Monkeypox Doesn’t Need to Be Renamed
Calling the disease something different won’t fix its bad vibes.
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Getty We’re Testing for Monkeypox the Wrong Way
No one should have to wait until they’re covered with sores.
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The Atlantic; Getty Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
A tidal wave of chronic illness could leave millions of people incrementally worse off.
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Tom Baker/Camera Press/Redux How a SIDS Study Became a Media Train Wreck
An inspiring research project went viral for the wrong reasons.
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Igor Alecsander / Getty ‘It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives’
Stories about the pandemic’s continuing risks for immunocompromised people may create unintended harms.
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Getty Get Ready for a Wave of Missed Infections
At last, rapid COVID tests are everywhere—and that means a surge of false-negative results.
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Getty; The Atlantic COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.
Hundreds of thousands of deaths, from either tobacco or the pandemic, could be prevented with a single behavioral change.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Stop Wasting COVID Tests, People
With the surge in cases, tests should be reserved for those who need them most.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Jen Psaki’s Rapid-Testing Gaffe Is Not as Simple as It Seems
For months and months, we’ve been told that rapid COVID testing is the key to getting back to normal. It didn’t work out that way in other countries, though.
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Nic Coury / AP Theranos and COVID-19 Testing Are Mirror-Image Cautionary Tales
When you’re regulating new technology for diagnostics, it’s hard to balance speed and safety.
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Chen Leopold / Flash90 / Redux Not Even a Pandemic Could Settle One of Medicine’s Greatest Controversies
In the spring of 2020, it looked as though a massive, unprecedented experiment in health care was about to take place. What happened?
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Adam Maida; The Atlantic The FDA Is a Melting Iceberg
For decades, scientists have been crying out for action. Will they finally be heard?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Doctors Who Bet Their Patients’ Lives on COVID-19 Test Results
Those waiting for an organ transplant are at risk of contracting the coronavirus whether they choose to avoid the health-care system or to interact with it.
