As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

“The last time I ate real food, actually chewed and swallowed, was six years ago.”

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

Finally, the crowd broke for lunch, with those who paid $1,000 availing themselves of private workouts. The highest tier lunched with Paltrow and select panelists. The proles were relegated to wandering around the warehouse and converted parking lot for two hours, getting solicited by dream interpreters or standing in endless lines for free blowouts or manicures — services promptly halted once the panels resumed, no matter that some had spent well over an hour in line.

A tuberculosis crisis in the rural South.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

Coming to terms with exercise bulimia.

“An idea too good not to believe.”

Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. The story of a neonatal nurse helps illustrate why.

A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.

To be mentally ill in Ghana.

A journey to the wildest edge of the spa industry.

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving federal disability payments increased dramatically — but nowhere more so than in rural America. This is one man’s story.

A tour of a nonprofit that collects, warehouses, and donates perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away, from anesthesia machines to unopened surgical tools.

He used to weigh 1,000 pounds. Now he has to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

Why didn’t gay rights cure gay loneliness?

The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.

An NHL goalie on playing with mental illness.

A husband puts himself in his wife’s shoes—with help from a Japanese scientist.

On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.

Reflections on two seasons of loss.