With abortion access limited in many states, should some home abortions still be a crime?

On living without memories.

A mother on her autistic child’s progression and regression.

A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.

Gretchen Molannen was perpetually aroused. She couldn’t work or sleep.

On December 1, the day after this story was published, she killed herself.

In 1943, a young research scientist found a cure for TB. It should have been the proudest moment of Albert Schatz’s life, but ever since he has watched, helpless, as his mentor got all the credit.

How a woman who couldn’t stop sleeping woke up.

On an affliction for the digital age, “Munchausen by internet.”

Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”

We know we need it, but we don’t know why.

On hypochondria.

On being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

A family’s struggle with mental illness and the criminal justice system.

The rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.

Debates surrounding physician-assisted dying in the U.S.

A medical device company experiments on humans.

Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

On getting a brain implant to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

How memories go wrong.

On the uneasy relationship between magic and medicine.

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

“Transforming into an Administrative Jekyll for a certain amount of time every day limits the amount of time my Creative Hyde can come up with content to market and sell. Luckily, amphetamines have that problem tackled as well: when you’re using them, you don’t have to sleep… at all.”

A radical new treatment for auditory hallucinations.

Just days after suffering a concussion, a 17-year-old fullback hangs himself. Inside his family’s journey to learn if a brain injury is to blame.