In order to keep running, Tom White cut off his own leg.

For three days, thousands of uninsured Americans converge on the Wise County Fairgrounds for the largest pop-up clinic in the country.

In El Salvador, pregnant women have more to fear than Zika.

Life with chronic migraines.

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

When the most famous amnesiac in history died, the battle for custody of his brain began.

Anti-aging medicine has been an epicenter of quackery for more than a century, but an MIT scientist is waging his reputation on a new pill.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

As jobs and food disappear, formerly middle class Venezuelans are descending on gaping illegal mining pits, some as deep as fifteen stories, searching for gold but often finding armed gangs and malaria.

An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.

On codeine syrup and Sprite

A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.

Paramedics pick up the pieces on the Texas-Mexico border.

The results can be deadly.

For those who suffer from environmental illnesses, the town of Snowflake is an escape from a modern world full of allergens: fragrances, gluten, wifi.

“Over and over again, records show, predatory physicians took advantage of a doctor’s special privilege — the daily practice of asking trusting people to disrobe in a private room and permit themselves to be touched.”

They believe that strangers on the street watch them, follow them in vans, whisper as they pass. Their family urge them to seek help. Then they find people online who have experienced the same thing they have.

A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.

“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”

Medicine, the company says, can also be a tasty snack.

Digging into the misconceptions and silences surrounding pregnancy loss, which is more common than people believe.

Purdue Pharma’s marketing materials say OxyContin works for 12 hours. It doesn’t. And this problem, long-denied by the drugmaker, is what makes it highly addictive.

Four men stood on the edge of the Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission, threatening to jump in protest. They referred to themselves as “China’s 21st century eunuchs,” damaged by medically-dubious surgeries.

The horror of being mentally ill in Florida’s prisons.

Patients say it feels like they’re drowning. Doctors say there’s nothing wrong. One thing is certain: medical professionals are finding they may not know as much about the nose as they’d thought.