As psychiatrists and philosophers begin to define a pervasive mental health crisis triggered by climate change, they ask who is really sick: the individual or society?

The origins of a misplaced panic.

“What am I going to do? Because this isn’t fair. I deserve to have a life, to be functional. Well, I guess I’m going to stick myself with bees.”

On the rise of telemedicine in rural America, where the number of ER patients has surged by 60 percent in the past decade as the number of doctors and hospitals has declined by up to 15 percent.

For years, Mormon Mommy blogger Natalie Lovin curated a picture-perfect life. Then she left the church—and her husband.

How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?

The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.

The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

How Aja Newman’s trip to the emergency room uncovered the abusive behavior of “rock star” physician David Newman, who ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual abuse against his patients.

Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.

On sleep deprivation in the NBA.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

Many low-wage workers are confined to filthy bathrooms, can’t get breaks and even lose their jobs trying to pump.

Doctors are disappearing from rural America.

We aspire to a life without discomfort, without unpleasantness. But what kind of life would that be? It is as hard to imagine a world without pain as a person without sadness: a whole dimension of existence would be missing.

The economic reality behind a billion-dollar wellness craze.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too.

How an island in the Antipodes became the world’s leading supplier of licit opioids.

A story of two births.

Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.

How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization.

Everyone wants women to be mindful, calm, and deliberate. But sometimes a little chaos gets things done.

24 hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis.