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Medicine
April 12, 2016
Peter Bowes
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?
April 5, 2016
Georgina Kenyon
Australia’s Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
March 29, 2016
Carrie Arnold
A Grown-Up Approach to Treating Anorexia
Many adults with anorexia have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Those same traits could help them escape it.
March 22, 2016
Emma Young
Can Food Be Medicine?
A writer explores manipulating her diet to treat her Type 2 diabetes.
March 15, 2016
Bryn Nelson
Dysphagia: It’s Like Being Waterboarded 24 Hours a Day
One morning, Samantha Anderson woke to find that she could no longer swallow. Three-and-a-half years later, she’s finally regaining her ability to eat.
March 8, 2016
Frieda Klotz
Are Cyborgs Real?
Frieda Klotz visits the world's first cyborg fair.
March 1, 2016
Holly Cave
Breaking the Silence on Miscarriages
Holly Cave wanted to know why her pregnancy ended at nine weeks. She discovered that talking about her loss helped change how she thought about it.
February 16, 2016
Emma Young
The Animals That Can Save Your Life
Rats can smell tuberculosis. Dogs can smell cancer. Now they’re being trained to help us survive.
February 9, 2016
Jo Marchant
You Can Train Your Body Into Thinking It’s Had Medicine
Harnessing the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs.
January 15, 2016
Christopher J. Gill
How Should A Scientific Meta-Analysis Be?
January 13, 2016
Adam Gaffney
Need Surgery, Will Travel
A new book explores the new world of medical tourism, an industry that's made Hungary the capital for glamorous dental work.
December 21, 2015
Adam Peck
Gay men can finally donate blood, as long as they don’t get any action.
November 13, 2015
Gavin Francis
What We Knew of the Sexes
The long history of gender variance in culture and medicine.
October 6, 2015
Jia-Chen Fu
The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation That Conquered Malaria—and Won a Nobel
August 13, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous
Why do doctors and patients insist on using electronic fetal monitoring?
July 30, 2015
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The Long March Toward Medicare
July 23, 2015
Jen Gunter
The Many Manipulations of the Planned Parenthood Attack Videos
An OB/GYN explains how medically incorrect language is used to distort the facts
July 1, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Christian Case for Vaccinating Children
May 28, 2015
Dr. Sushrut Jangi
The Nutrition Gap
In America, where the pharmaceutical industry is king, many doctors dismiss nutritional therapies as quack medicine. But many patients disagree, and they're taking matters into their own hands—sometimes to the detriment of their health.
April 29, 2015
David B. Waisel
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Paul Litton
Why the Lethal Injection Drug Debated by the Supreme Court Today Is Unconstitutional
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