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Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. (Duff, 6/17)

In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world’s foremost H.I.V. researchers has been spending a chunk of each day gently telling longtime workers and young doctoral students that the money is gone and so are their jobs. When the calls are done, she weeps in her empty office. (Nolen, 6/17)

Before there was MAHA, there was Michelle. Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement can’t help but recall former First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to improve Americans’ diets — and the vitriol she faced in response. Now, many of the same Republicans who skewered Michelle Obama as a “nanny state” warrior have embraced the MAHA movement. (Brown, 6/14)

School districts are having a harder time putting nurses in every building, including in D.C., where Children’s National Hospital is ending a $25 million agreement to manage school nurses. (Portnoy, 6/16)

Desperate to break free from addiction, thousands of Americans hooked on opioids are heading to Mexico for a radical—and risky—treatment banned in the U.S. Watch the video above to see why people are betting their lives on ibogaine. The African root is a powerful psychedelic that can wipe out withdrawals and cravings in just one dose. But it isn’t without danger. Ibogaine can induce traumatic visions and cause fatal heart complications. (Hotz, 6/19)

China has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the developed world. So why has it emerged as one of the top locations for testing the scores of new weight loss drugs cropping up every month? (DeAngelis, 6/17)

As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. (Astor, 6/16)