On getting weight reduction surgery.

The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

How contemporary medicine is testing us to death.

The case against decluttering.

Born at a barely viable 24 weeks, Owen’s life began as a battle for survival. His future is a test for how far neonatal medicine has come.

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

“It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things. Now, we’re the only species that can be baffled about the ‘right’ way to eat.”

What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.

The author faces this question as she emerges from alcoholism.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

On the ground in Wilmington.

The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.

The transgender community fights for health care.

Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.

How the hospitality world rents space for physicians to train.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.

How the author’s life changed.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

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

How a perfect vision of mother hood hurts moms.