Intended for cremation, 244 bodies are instead harvested for organs and tissue. The story of the families of the dead, the men who profited off the scheme, and the unwitting recipients of black market body parts.

Barry Michels is Hollywood’s most successful therapist cum motivation coach with an approach that combines Jungian psychology, encouraging patients to embrace their dark side, and “three-by-five index cards inscribed with Delphic pronouncements like THE HIERARCHY WILL NEVER BE CLEAR.”

The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

A group of scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week in 1946. Those children are now 65 and the data generated through careful tracking of their life history has become extremely valuable.

The American medical establishment has gone to extraordinary lengths—some of which read like conspiracy theory—to discredit the notion (and its most visible promoter, Dr. Atkins) that carbohydrates, not fat, are the cause of obesity. It looks like they were wrong.

The search for the genetic distinction that allows certain animals, humans included, to be domesticated.

How focusing on the neediest patients could radically reduce health care costs.

With Washington State debating a bill that would force Christian pregnancy centers to be more forthright about their anti-abortion agenda, a pair of reporters hear firsthand what the centers are telling young women.

The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.

A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”

The decline of the American autopsy and what it says about modern medicine.

On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.

How to kick heroin in 24 hours.

A jogging buddy collapses during a marathon, his heart suddenly finished beating. The writer goes looking for answers.

He called himself “TheNoseDoctor” and performed sinus surgeries, many of them unnecessary, at a maniacal clip. When the whole thing fell apart, he left behind his yacht and family, and disappeared into the Alps.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

“You can treat a lot of people, and India has,’’ says an epidemiologist working on TB. “But if you have tests that cause misdiagnosis on a massive scale you are going to have a serious problem. And they do.”

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

When it comes to representing pharmaceutical companies, a doctor’s medical record is far less important than his or her ability to sell.

How “tissue engineering” will change regenerative medicine.

For most people who participate in clinical trials, being a guinea pig is just a way to make a quick buck. For others, it’s a career.

A trip to the Russian baths helps author start to see the good in his terrible eyesight.

How misdirected incentives in the bewildering medical supply industry keep innovative, life-saving equipment from reaching hospitals.

The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.