Articles by

David Cox

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging...

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an...

The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis

The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase...

The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments

In 2023, Mitchell Miller, a sleep medicine doctor based in Clearwater, Florida, received a visit from an...

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?

Across the African continent, the focus on disease has long been on infectious killers such as HIV...

This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout

After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, Linda-Gail Bekker could finally see the...

Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster

In the summer of 2020, 15 recognized leaders in US public health gathered to author an article...

Human Metapneumovirus Is Finally Being Taken Seriously

As head of one of the world’s only dedicated research labs focused on human metapneumovirus, John Williams...