Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

When an autistic child goes missing.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.

The author on his mother’s deteriorating health and the “price of longevity.”

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

Ina May Gaskin and the battle for at-home births.

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

New research on children’s behavior.

The idea that a young child could have psychopathic tendencies remains controversial among psychologists. Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, has argued that psychopathy, like other personality disorders, is almost impossible to diagnose accurately in children, or even in teenagers — both because their brains are still developing and because normal behavior at these ages can be misinterpreted as psychopathic.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

A father and his daughter’s brain tumor.

I've grown, over the last few months, the beginnings of concerned; he's started to suffer bouts of malaise. Nothing too regular, or too terrible: mild stomach aches, sore joints, general lethargy. In anyone else, it could be anything, etc. In Chad, I grow attuned to the slightest variation in temperature, to the distracted look behind his eyes when food isn't sitting with him.

The impact, both on researchers and patients, of a radical treatment.

The rise of anti-anxiety medication.

How a mysterious twitching epidemic overtook one Western New York town.

An investigation into the myth of actress Frances Farmer’s lobotomy.

Last Fall, America’s favorite focus drug suddenly went into short supply.

The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

"Look, people's lives are people's lives, and some of them can't cope or be as organized as some of us might like. But it's only in the area of sex that we get involved in the ethics of promoting risk-taking, the idea that we should withhold information or devices because we don't want people to need them. Would you make the same argument about cholesterol drugs? Saying, If we give people a drug that will reduce cholesterol, they won't be as likely to exercise and eat properly like they really should?"

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.