Jamie Ducharme

Jamie Ducharme is a health correspondent at TIME and the author of Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul.

Recent Articles

Controversial Fitness Company CrossFit Wants to Be Your Doctor

CrossFit CEO Eric Roza would like to know if I have a primary care doctor. When I sheepishly tell him that I do not, he grins. I’ve just helped prove his point that the traditional...

By Jamie Ducharme October 19, 2021

WHO Probably Won’t Discover COVID-19's Origins

Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still not clear exactly how, where or when the SARS-CoV-2 virus began infecting people. Many experts believe the virus jumped from animal hosts to humans, but researchers...

By Jamie Ducharme October 19, 2021

Companies Are Finally Fighting Burnout During the Pandemic

A record 42.1 million Americans quit a job in 2019

By Jamie Ducharme October 14, 2021

Juul Is No Longer U.S. Teenagers' Preferred E-Cigarette. Puff Bar Seems to Have Taken Over

Disposable e-cigarettes like Puff Bar are now far more popular among teenagers than the pod-based products from once-dominant brand Juul, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...

By Jamie Ducharme September 30, 2021

Can Breakthrough Infections Lead to Long COVID? For an Unlucky Few, Yes

When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that...

By Jamie Ducharme September 30, 2021

Is Reusable Packaging Actually Better for the Environment?

When you toss a plastic bottle into your recycling bin, there’s no guarantee it actually gets recycled. In fact, odds are, it doesn’t. According to the World Economic Forum, just 14% of plastic packaging is...

By Jamie Ducharme September 28, 2021

Some Vaping Companies Are Turning to Synthetic Nicotine to Outsmart the FDA

Troy Johnston swears he wanted to play by the rules. Johnston, who owns the Texas-based vaping company VaporSalon, tried to follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidelines for selling e-cigarette products, which required...

By Jamie Ducharme September 17, 2021

The Gates Foundation's 2021 Report Shows That Childhood Vaccinations Dropped During the Pandemic—But There's a Bright Side

This time last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation warned of a grim potential side effect from the COVID-19 pandemic: its disruptions to routine medical care could erase 25 years of progress on childhood...

By Jamie Ducharme September 13, 2021

What Went Wrong with COVAX

In January 2020, world leaders and industry titans gathered in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos conference. Much of the conversation centered around the mysterious new coronavirus that had emerged in Wuhan, China,...

By Jamie Ducharme September 9, 2021

Juul, E-Cig Brands May Get FDA Authorization Soon

For the last 15 years, there’s been a caveat tacked on to any discussion of e-cigarettes’ public health impact. Though millions of people in the U.S. use them regularly, the devices have never been authorized...

By Jamie Ducharme September 3, 2021
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