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.

For 30 years, Paul Shuen was one of the city’s most respected obstetricians. Then his nurses noticed something unusual about the way he delivered babies.

Life in America without dental care.

What happens when illness becomes an identity?

Inside the fight for safe cannabis for all.

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

How a disease came back.

With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.

On the suicide crisis in rural East Texas.

Vivia, an intellectually disabled woman, had long wanted a child but decided instead to adopt a doll.

For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.