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Health

Science World Health

Under the Weather

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?

Ash Sanders The Believer Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Sex Health Media

How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman

The origins of a misplaced panic.

L.V. Anderson Slate Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Can Bee Stings Treat Lyme Disease?

“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.”

Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Health

The Most Remote Emergency Room: Life and Death in Rural America

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.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Health Media Religion

The Education of Natalie Jean

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

Nona Willis Aronowitz Elle Nov 2019 15min Permalink

History Health

The Happiness Ruse

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

Cody Delistraty Aeon Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Health

The Wrong Goodbye

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

Joe Sexton, Nate Schweber ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Health

Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?

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.

Ferris Jabr New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Science Health

The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring

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.

Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink

Crime Health

One Night at Mount Sinai

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.

Lisa Miller The Cut Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Health

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested

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.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Sports Health

“It's the Dirty Little Secret That Everybody Knows About”

On sleep deprivation in the NBA.

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Baxter Holmes on the Longform Podcast

Baxter Holmes ESPN Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Health

My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction

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

Colton Wooten Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Health

How Employers Make It Impossible For Working Women To Breastfeed

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

Dave Jamieson HuffPost Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Health

‘Out Here, It’s Just Me’

Doctors are disappearing from rural America.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Will There Ever Be a Cure for Chronic Pain?

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.

Sophie Elmhirst 1843 Magazine Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Business Health

Dark Crystals

The economic reality behind a billion-dollar wellness craze.

Tess McClure The Guardian Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Health

We Didn't Stand a Chance Against Opioids

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

Joshua Hunt The New Republic Sep 2019 15min Permalink

Health

The Weather

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

Aubrey Hirsch Gay Mag Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Opiate Island

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

Peter Andrey Smith Pacfic Standard Jul 2019 30min Permalink

Health

The Quickening

A story of two births.

Leslie Jamison The Atlantic Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Health

The Message of Measles

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

Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Health

Athleisure, Barre and Kale: the Tyranny of the Ideal Woman

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

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Excerpted from Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino The Guardian Jul 2019 20min Permalink

Health

How Taffy Brodesser-Akner Thrives on Stress

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

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Real Simple Jul 2019 15min Permalink

Health

One Day, One City, No Relief

24 hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis.

San Francisco Chronicle Jul 2019 40min Permalink

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