Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.

“It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else.”

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.

If something isn’t done now, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill as many as 10 million people a year by 2050.

A cri de cœur on AIDS: “If we don’t act immediately, then we face our approaching doom.”

The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.

How New Jersey’s first coronavirus patient survived.

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

On the centuries-long search for the perfect hangover remedy.

A healthcare nightmare.

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.

“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”

On medical acting and real pain.

Why doctors hate their computers.

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3 billion industry.

At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental procedure to get a new one.

Each year, about 50,000 women are severely injured giving birth. Half of these injuries could be reduced or eliminated with better care.

An essay about the weeks after the author’s brother nearly died.