Maryn McKenna

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The Hajj is a Perfect Laboratory for Disease Warning Systems

August 23, 2018 By

Urgent Care Clinics Come to an Antibiotics Mea Culpa

August 3, 2018 By

Future Planting

July 31, 2018 By

The pioneers of the organic farming movement are aging out. What will happen to their lovingly tended farms?

The Strange and Curious Case of the Deadly Superbug Yeast

July 13, 2018 By

How Pharma Hides Data About Farm Antibiotic Use

June 11, 2018 By

The Political Theater of Controlling Ebola with Border Checks

May 22, 2018 By

The Catch-22 of Mass-Prescribing Antibiotics

May 10, 2018 By

He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.

May 1, 2018 By

The Fix for E. Coli Outbreaks Could Be … the Blockchain

April 28, 2018 By

The Jamón Went Down to Georgia

April 18, 2018 By

Can Iberian pigs — source of jamón ibérico de bellota — thrive in the American South?

The Race to Find the Next Pandemic—Before It Finds Us

April 12, 2018 By

The Yelping of the American Doctor

March 22, 2018 By

Online patient surveys are driving doctors to overprescribe antibiotics, and it’s making us all sick.

Medicine’s Long, Thin Supply Chain Threatens Americans

March 5, 2018 By

By offshoring its drug and medical supply manufacturing, the US has put patients and hospitals in a frighteningly precarious position.

Is Now the Right Time to Try and End Measles?

February 12, 2018 By

A crusade to eradicate measles would save 22 million lives by 2030. But to succeed, we might need to learn how to eradicate other diseases first.

Big Pharma Has the Flu

February 1, 2018 By

Flu vaccines make pharma companies $3 billion a year and aren’t very effective. Without a Manhattan Project-style initiative to modernize immunizations, things aren’t going to get any better.

Not Everyone is Giving Thanks for Antibiotic-Free Turkeys

November 21, 2017 By

How to Stop a Lethal Virus

November 1, 2017 By

With tens of millions of lives at stake, medical researchers are racing to create a revolutionary flu vaccine before the next devastating epidemic

How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance

September 12, 2017 By

Antibiotic use in India’s chicken industry is a looming disaster

July 25, 2017 By

Perdue gets high marks from activists on its chicken reforms

July 19, 2017 By

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