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February 17, 2017
A Medical Theory for Donald Trump’s Bizarre Behavior
Many mental health professionals believe the president is ill. But what if the cause is an untreated STD?
April 12, 2016
The Experimental Diet That Mimics a Rare Genetic Mutation
A rare genetic disorder protects its carriers from disease and aging. What if a diet could replicate its effects?
March 22, 2016
Can Food Be Medicine?
A writer explores manipulating her diet to treat her Type 2 diabetes.
July 1, 2015
Sierra Leone’s Rich and Powerful Are Breaking the Ebola Burial Rules
And it's putting everyone at risk
December 8, 2014
The Best Way to Beat AIDS Isn't Drug Treatment. It's a Living Wage.
October 28, 2014
Chris Christie Is Ignorant About Ebola, But That Doesn't Mean He Was Wrong About Quarantines
October 27, 2014
You're Overreacting to the Ebola Outbreak, and It's Not Helping
That includes the public, politicians, and even this magazine
October 24, 2014
NYC's Ebola Patient Went Bowling. Why Don't Americans Just Stay Home When They're Sick?
October 16, 2014
We Should Quarantine Everyone Coming From Countries With Ebola Outbreaks
An infectious-disease specialist says the time for half-measures is over
October 16, 2014
This Woman Is Traveling in a Hazmat Suit—and 4 More Absurd Ebola Overreactions
October 13, 2014
A Nurse Should Not Have Contracted Ebola. We Need New Policies.
October 1, 2014
How Not To Write About Deadly, Infectious Diseases Like Ebola
August 15, 2014
Here's What I Would Have Told Robin Williams About Living With Parkinson's
August 13, 2014
I'm an Ebola Doctor Working in Liberia. Giving Every Patient That Rare Serum Doesn't Make Sense.
August 12, 2014
You'll Probably Never Catch Ebola—So Why Is the Disease So Terrifying?
August 6, 2014
The First American Ebola Outbreak
The unscientific origins of our obsession with viruses
August 6, 2014
Why Did Two U.S. Missionaries Get an Ebola Serum While Africans Are Left to Die?
April 15, 2014
Do Jewish Men Postpone Death Until After Passover?
December 17, 1990
Gay Life, Gay Death
The siege of a subculture
March 7, 1960
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The Fact of Mortality
"Ikiru" is a film rooted in the most universal of truths, the one that cuts across all cultural barriers, all concepts of love, success, God: the fact of mortality.

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