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.

The AIDS crisis as it unfolded in America is an object lesson in the danger, the potential violence, inherent in organized prejudice.

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.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.

Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

Each year, about 50,000 women are severely injured giving birth. Half of these injuries could be reduced or eliminated with better care.