Carrying babies for foreign couples was once touted as a win-win for everyone involved. Indian women, however, were often left with little to show for their efforts.

Is the oldest person who ever lived a fraud?

The wrong way to fight the opioid crisis.

An organ transplant recipient cycles across the country to meet the people who gave him his heart.

How is it that literature has produced a wealth of information about the sex lives of straight white men and yet so little about the abortions they have or have not paid for?

On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

Confronting a body excluded from beauty amid Italy’s natural splendor.

Does hurting make us human?

At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret.

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

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.