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.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

The University of Maryland waited 18 days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark.

A yearlong investigation by BuzzFeed News, based on leaked recordings, internal documents, and dozens of interviews with fans and insiders, reveals how Robbins has berated abuse victims and subjected his followers to unorthodox and potentially dangerous techniques. And former female fans and staffers have accused him of inappropriate sexual advances.

I find myself in a strange situation where people I love were traumatized and devastated by what happened to me, but I—the dude who actually suffered the injury—fell into a two-week time warp before waking up strapped to a gurney: emaciated, woozy, confused, and irritable.

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s “monkey island.” The surviving primates could help scientists learn about the psychological response to traumatizing events.

How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry.

Anatomy of an outbreak.

Is all water created equal? It depends on who you believe.

There’s a tale about a boy in Waycross. Near a canal, he struck a match, lit a piece of newspaper, and tossed it into the water. But when the burning paper touched the surface, it didn’t go out. The water burst into flames.

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess.

Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.