Ending a pregnancy in the most “pro-life” state in America.

What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves.

New medicines can cost hundreds of thousands of dolllars a year. Are they worth it? A look at how a pair of pharmaceutical compainies set their prices.

On the personal genetic sequencing company 23andMe and why their long time term strategy is collecting spit, not cash.

On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.

How one man helped get Vitamin D into milk, fortified food, and spurred our obsession with supplements.

The Arctic, sailors and scurvy.

A profile of Chencho Dorji, Bhutan’s first psychiatrist, who has treated “more than 5,300 depressed, anxious, psychotic and drug-addled” people since 1999.

What happens when a pacemaker outlives the brain.

On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.

In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.

“In the computer age, it is not hard to imagine how a computing machine might construct, store and spit out the information that ‘I am alive, I am a person, I have memories, the wind is cold, the grass is green,’ and so on. But how does a brain become aware of those propositions? “

The long road to a potential breakthrough.

Why some innovations spread quick while others take decades to catch hold.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

How a bioethicist’s field of study—suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death—”turned unbearably personal.”

The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.

The controversial history of WI-38, a cell strain created from an aborted fetus “that has arguably helped to save more lives than any other created by researchers.”

Research into mind-altering drugs is back.

The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.

Most of what you know about women’s fertility rates is wrong.

A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

“Jeannie Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness. The Mayo doctors didn’t tell Peeper’s parents that. All they did say was that Peeper would not live long.”