Katherine Eban

Rolling Stone

Trump Taps Don Jr.'s 38-Year-Old Turkey-Hunting Pal to Lead FDA

By: Katherine Eban

If you've ever swallowed an aspirin, put milk in your coffee, fed your pet, or filled a prescription, then you've relied on the lifesaving oversight of the U.S.

Rolling Stone

Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce?

By: Katherine Eban

O n Nov. 26, 2025, the day before Thanksgiving, calls flew between top officials of the Health and Human Services Department, as they learned they'd been blindsided.

Rolling Stone

Trump's CDC Nominee Is Actually Qualified. Will She Cave to MAHA?

By: Katherine Eban

After Wednesday's nomination hearing by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, it remains an open question as to whether Dr.

Rolling Stone

Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A ‘Wild Misuse' of Power

By: Katherine Eban

On the morning of July 17, the Vermont state epidemiologist received an emergency call from a family of U.S. citizens.

Rolling Stone

The Covid Origin Saga Is More Complicated Than Either Side Wants to Admit

By: Katherine Eban

Over and over, Dr. Anthony Fauci , an infectious disease doctor who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, invoked

Rolling Stone

I Was at Ground Zero on 9/11. We Deserve Answers About the Government's Air Quality Lies

By: Katherine Eban

The weather on September 11, as we've come to know it in New York City, is strangely perfect year after year — clear, bright and temperate, as though it has come from a movie set.

Rolling Stone

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

By: Katherine Eban

Two months after the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, her office has moved

Rolling Stone

On the Front Line of the Vaccine Wars

By: Katherine Eban

O N A CRISP DRY DAY in Beckley, West Virginia, last September, 35-year-old litigator Chris Smith wore his lucky purple tie to court.

Rolling Stone

How a Controversial Hepatitis B Study Was Funded by the CDC Amid a Global Swirl of Criticism

By: Katherine Eban

As experts questioned the ethics of the study, documents show that expiring funds forced a rushed vote in Denmark, where the researchers' university is based

Rolling Stone

A Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study Championed by RFK Jr. Is Axed After Widespread Backlash

By: Katherine Eban

After months of reporting by Rolling Stone, a trial declared ‘unethical' by WHO will not move forward