Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

Why didn’t we?

We aspire to a life without discomfort, without unpleasantness. But what kind of life would that be? It is as hard to imagine a world without pain as a person without sadness: a whole dimension of existence would be missing.

What happens when illness becomes an identity?

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

Why doctors hate their computers.

The work of Doctors Without Borders is in jeopardy.

A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.

“Over and over again, records show, predatory physicians took advantage of a doctor’s special privilege — the daily practice of asking trusting people to disrobe in a private room and permit themselves to be touched.”

Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.

How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.