A rare genetic disorder protects its carriers from disease and aging. What if a diet could replicate its effects?

Many adults with anorexia have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Those same traits could help them escape it.

A writer explores manipulating her diet to treat her Type 2 diabetes.

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.

Frieda Klotz visits the world's first cyborg fair.

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.

Rats can smell tuberculosis. Dogs can smell cancer. Now they’re being trained to help us survive.

Harnessing the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs.

A new book explores the new world of medical tourism, an industry that's made Hungary the capital for glamorous dental work.

The long history of gender variance in culture and medicine.

Why do doctors and patients insist on using electronic fetal monitoring?

An OB/GYN explains how medically incorrect language is used to distort the facts

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.