You Can Train Your Body Into Thinking It’s Had Medicine
On the profound power of the placebo.
Medicine
A Fighter’s Hour of Need
An account of the 60 minutes after a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden that left one boxer with permanent brain damage.
The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.
Best of Luck
On realizing you’re going to die.
Biography of a Face
The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.
The Lost Girls
On the gender gap in diagnosis and treatment of autism.
Stop the Madness
America’s devastating treatment of schizophrenia.
A Criminal Mind
Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.
The Museum of Menstruation
The Maryland man who houses antique feminine hygiene products.
What Will I Hear When My Ears Stop Working?
On going deaf as a result of Ménière’s Disease.
Telling JJ
The delicate process of telling a ten-year-old she is HIV-positive.
Cattle Calls
There’s a new endangered species in rural America: veterinarians.
A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future
Kim Suozzi, who died at 23, chose to have her brain preserved for future revival. It’s not as far-fetched a prospect as you’d think.
Slipping Away
Jo Aubin has Alzheimer’s. He’s 38.
A Prescription for More Black Doctors
The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.
The Death of Patient Zero
Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.
Young Blood
Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.
A Week In The Mysterious Sleeping Villages Of Kazakhstan
What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?
The Alphabet of Months
Life with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
Why Can’t We Stop Cholera in Haiti?
For a time, NGOs thought they’d eradicated the disease. But now it’s back.
This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel
On mirror-touch synethesia, the power (or curse) of knowing exactly how others feel.
Boy, Interrupted
A drug derived from cannabis was the only thing that could control a young boy’s seizures.
Metal-Mouths
Eighty percent of North American teenagers are in the care of an orthodontist. On our obsession with perfect teeth.
The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing
Juries trust DNA. But should they?
What's Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?
A midwife, a rash of stillbirths and miscarriages, and a town whose economy depends on fracking.
