The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

Why awareness isn’t saving lives.

Edna Kelly’s brain goes under the knife.

On the renaissance in psychedelic research.

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

The story of Lilly Grossman’s genome.

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

The science of sleeplessness.

A profile of Dr. Oz.

Dr. Elisabeth Targ became famous for running scientific experiments that appeared to prove the healing power of faith. Then she got sick and became a test subject herself.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

Being injured in the NFL.

The U.N.’s role in creating an epidemic in Haiti.

On the importance of the human microbiome.