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Deputy Science editor @nytimes. My book, The Elusive Body, is out now!

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MAHA Is No Longer Useful to Trump

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By Tressie McMillan Cottom, Alexandra Sifferlin Verified, David Wallace-Wells Verified
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MAHA Is No Longer Useful to Trump Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement has reshaped the public health debate. But if the coalition behind it begins to fracture, what comes next? May 21, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ET Is the MAHA movement’s political influence waning?
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The Anxiety (and Relief) of Diagnosis

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By Alexandra Sifferlin Verified
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Stories of diagnoses are not clean and tidy, even if the diagnosis itself is profoundly meaningful. Diagnosis is an answer, but it’s not always a comforting one. And the meaning it has for different people, even different members of the same family, can be mixed. Article continues after advertisement “When Emily got sick, I was a mess,” said Jim Brackett. His daughter Emily suddenly began throwing up after car rides or spinning in the yard when she turned five years old.
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She Was Training to Be a Doctor. Her Cancer Still Went Undiagnosed.

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By Alexandra Sifferlin Verified
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Each year, around 12 million Americans experience a medical diagnostic error. My book, The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis, explores what it means to live without an accurate diagnosis, and how both clinicians and patients are working to improve that process. Estimates suggest that nearly everyone will experience a diagnostic error in their lifetime, making this not a rare failure, but a widespread and urgent challenge.
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