The assumptions made by public officials, and the choices made by media, too often backfired.

A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Last April, the District built a secret disaster morgue, assembled an army of volunteers to staff it, and trained people who had never previously seen a dead body to care for the dead. This is the story of the morgue—and the quiet force of civil servants tending to everyone we’ve lost to Covid.

While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health.

Baby Olivia weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. Her doctors faced a stressful paradox: giving her the healing power of a parent’s touch, while keeping the virus out.

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

How will we remember Covid-19?

The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

Inside Give Kids the World Village, where the ice cream is unlimited, nightly tuck-ins from six-foot bunny rabbits are complimentary, and Santa Claus visits every Thursday.

When COVID-19 surged through a North Dakota community, a battle with the pandemic became a battle among its residents.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

​The case against Anthony Fauci.

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.

His body wrecked by ALS, the author’s father insisted that his death, like his life, was his to control.

He was born Linda, but ten years ago Daniel came out as a transgender man. He changed his name to Daniel Valter Jensen, got a new social security number and grew a full beard.

“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

On modern motherhood and the birth narrative.

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.