The intricacies of a delicate operation.

Chronicling 1,541 days with a car accident survivor.

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

The story behind a wad of cotton and a bit of string.

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

On the failing institution of the teaching hospital.

From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

The informal network of volunteers that keep abortion access open in Texas.

The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

How the overdiagnosis of disease makes for unnecessary treatment, high anxiety, and ballooning costs.

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.

Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.

Can the insights of neuroscience help us get over our prejudices?

Researchers do look into near-death experiences, seeking a verified case of what they call “apparently non-physical veridical perception.”

A brief history of pretending to be sick.

Identical twins in Pennsylvania have the same genes, the same upbringing, similar adult lives. And yet one crucial difference may have made one of them sick.

It isn’t easy to find out the truth about the benefits of male circumcision.

It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.

Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.

On former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, who died Saturday, and his battle with dementia.

"What’s it like to be giving birth at home, and see blood pooling between your legs, and look up at the ashen faces of a birth attendant, a midwife, a spouse? What’s it like to feel the earth tremble and see the roof and walls of your home or school fall towards you? More to the point, in terms of survival: what happens next? It depends. Not just on the severity of the injury, but on who and where you are."