Dylan Scott
Senior Correspondent and Editor at Vox
Senior correspondent and editor for @voxdotcom. Send news tips to [email protected]. Gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
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6 days ago |
vox.com | Dylan Scott
Cigarettes are a public health nightmare: both highly addictive and highly dangerous. By the middle of the 20th century, nearly half of Americans were smokers, putting themselves at risk of lung cancer, emphysema, and other chronic and deadly health problems. And while smoking rates have fallen significantly over the decades, to light up because once you start, it can be hard to stop. Despite decades of aggressive anti-smoking measures, the toll from tobacco continues.
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1 week ago |
vox.com | Dylan Scott
The United States is in the middle of what’s shaping up to be the worst measles outbreak of this century. The outbreak began within a small religious community in West Texas in January, but it has since spread across four states in the Southwest. Two school-aged children and one adult have died so far. The number of reported cases is set to surpass 1,000 this week — though the real count may be much higher.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Dylan Scott
The United States is in the middle of what’s shaping up to be the worst measles outbreak of this century. The outbreak began within a small religious community in West Texas in January, but it has since spread across four states in the Southwest. Two school-aged children and one adult have died so far. The number of reported cases is set to surpass 1,000 this week — though the real count may be much higher.
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2 weeks ago |
vox.com | Dylan Scott
Just two years ago, the US was suffering through the worst stretch of its long-running drug overdose crisis. More than 110,000 Americans had died in the previous 12 months from an overdose — almost twice the number of people who died in the all of the Vietnam War. But late last year, the country got some unexpected good news: Overdose fatalities had fallen by 10 percent.
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2 weeks ago |
vox.com | Dylan Scott
Creatine — yes, the favorite of gym rats everywhere, a supplement many of us have taken ourselves — is a naturally occurring compound that is already found inside each person. Scientists have been studying creatine since the 1830s and, for more than a century, we have known that it was pivotal for producing energy in our muscles. That, as anybody who was alive in the ’90s may remember, is how creatine first exploded as a consumer product.
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We took on the eternal question: Is "moderate" drinking really that bad for you? https://t.co/ZW4zWE6Bqi
First death in the ongoing measles outbreak, per the Texas health department. Unvaccinated school-aged child. https://t.co/yDuqMdO3Vb
RT @gaslightyourmom: Factory owner in Springfield Ohio says he likes the Haitians because they consistently show up to work and don’t have…