Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
Health
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding
He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
Tainted Earth
In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.
The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End
A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
‘Like Being Grilled Alive’: The Fear of Living With a Hackable Heart
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks
As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.
Living With Depression and Anxiety During a Global Pandemic
“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”
Immune Disorder
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
What to Do About Ahav?
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
Data Disappeared
Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.
Dying to Be Seen
“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”
The Tree That Could Help Stop the Pandemic
The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.
‘Something Extremely Bad Is Happening Here’
Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.
Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
On a Bender in the Grecian Isle Where Himbos Reign Supreme
Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.
He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence. She Was a Judge Who Believed in Second Chances. Nobody Knew She Suffered from Alzheimer’s.
Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.
Dubious Alternative Lyme Treatments Are Killing Patients
Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”
Lives on the Line
How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.
Elderly and Homeless
Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.
Pregnant During the Pandemic: Three Stories
At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.
Inside the Airline Industry's Meltdown
On the future of air travel.
The Battle Over Dyslexia
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.
