Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. The story of a neonatal nurse helps illustrate why.

A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.

To be mentally ill in Ghana.

A journey to the wildest edge of the spa industry.

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving federal disability payments increased dramatically — but nowhere more so than in rural America. This is one man’s story.

A tour of a nonprofit that collects, warehouses, and donates perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away, from anesthesia machines to unopened surgical tools.

He used to weigh 1,000 pounds. Now he has to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

Why didn’t gay rights cure gay loneliness?

The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.

An NHL goalie on playing with mental illness.

A husband puts himself in his wife’s shoes—with help from a Japanese scientist.

On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.

Reflections on two seasons of loss.

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.

Suspecting he had CTE and that it would eventually kill him, a former high school football player kept a diary of what was has happening to his brain.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

Silicon Valley’s biohacking craze has turned its sights on small doses of LSD for the workplace.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

On chemo.