Science / Health
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How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious—but…
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The Shameful Controversy Over Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif
This story was originally published in WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won her…
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The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing
Ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus,…
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Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was…
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Anthony Fauci Worries About the Next Pandemic—But Worries More About Democracy
Is there any indication that if Trump is reelected, he would handle a subsequent public health crisis any better? I…
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The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave
This story originally appeared on WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese. The northern hemisphere is entering yet another…
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Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
Reproductive rights organizations have been quick to come out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s…
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The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling
It was half past midnight Eastern Time when Andrew Rosenberg, an anesthesiologist and critical care doctor who works as chief…
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Pancreatic Cancer Turns Off a Key Gene in Order to Grow
THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. Pancreatic cancer turns off one of our…
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It’s Shockingly Easy to Buy Off-Brand Ozempic Online, Even if You Don’t Need It
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have both recently taken legal action against companies selling compounded versions of drugs, often alleging…
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