I went through puberty at age 2.

An investigation into the bad medical advice women are given about their bodies.

Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and other sober musicians on how to thrive creatively without drugs or booze.

The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

They listened to the radio until there was nothing more to do. Philip went into the house and retrieved a container of Kraft vanilla pudding, which he’d mixed with all the drugs he could find in the house—Valium, Klonopin, Percocet, and so on. He opened the passenger-­side door and knelt beside Becky. He held a spoon, and she guided it to her mouth. When Becky had eaten all the pudding, he got back into the driver’s seat and swallowed a handful of pills. Philip asked her how the pudding tasted. “Like freedom,” she said. As they lost consciousness, the winter chill seeped into their clothes and skin.

What it’s like to be too big in America.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.

They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and secondhand RVs just over the state line, so that women can give birth on their own terms.

On learning to live with the urge to die.

On the Squatty Potty and changing the way the you poop.

Manufacturers fought to get implants back on the market. Regulators gave in. Now thousands of patients are paying the price.

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.

Laura Levis did everything she could to save herself when an asthma attack began. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

Why doctors hate their computers.

A month-long tour inside L.A.’s cultish world of wellness.

How chronic fatigue syndrome changed the author’s life.

I know dudes like me aren’t supposed to talk about depression, but I’ll talk about it. If a real motherfucker like me can struggle with it, then anybody can struggle with it.

Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.

A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

Should marrying a child be allowed?

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

On plagues, parasitic mind control, and magical thinking.