A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

Should marrying a child be allowed?

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

On plagues, parasitic mind control, and magical thinking.

The AIDS crisis as it unfolded in America is an object lesson in the danger, the potential violence, inherent in organized prejudice.

Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.

Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

Each year, about 50,000 women are severely injured giving birth. Half of these injuries could be reduced or eliminated with better care.

Why does prenatal care ignore the topic altogether?

“The first thing I always notice… is that I’m not alone.”

We know more about sleep than we ever have and we’ve never been worse at it.

A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads.

When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem.

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.

On the confines of masculinity.

When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.

Can a college course teach us how to be happy?

Jennifer Warren promised people counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.