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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 14, 2014
Life With the Breast Cancer Gene Is a Hellish Mix of Anxiety and Self-Doubt
I'm poked, prodded, felt up, and scanned—and don't even know if it will stop the cancer
October 7, 2014
It's Time to Take Back Our Aging, Smelly Bodies
Why it's important to resist shame and disgust
October 6, 2014
Is Ebola Here to Stay? “That’s Our Biggest Fear."
This new test will be key to separating Ebola from other sicknesses
September 29, 2014
This Book Empathizes With Anti-Vaxxers, Who Don't Deserve Empathy
September 19, 2014
Ebola Is Spreading Way Faster Than Anyone Predicted
September 17, 2014
The Strange Case of An 18th-Century Sex Change Surgery
A chance discovery leads to one of the earliest known instances of the operation
August 13, 2014
I'm an Ebola Doctor Working in Liberia. Giving Every Patient That Rare Serum Doesn't Make Sense.
August 8, 2014
Steven Soderbergh Made a Gilded-Age “ER” and It’s Riveting
August 6, 2014
Why Did Two U.S. Missionaries Get an Ebola Serum While Africans Are Left to Die?
August 5, 2014
What Andrew Wyeth Could Teach Modern Doctors About Practicing Medicine
The art of medicine is not so far from art
July 31, 2014
I'm a Doctor. Here's Why I'll Ask You About Guns.
Florida court decision is a disturbing intrusion on medical practice.
July 28, 2014
Science Is Changing What It Means to Be Dead
If you could freeze yourself until a future age, are you sure you'd want to?
July 15, 2014
Right-Wing Xenophobes Are Spreading Lies About Migrant Diseases
Welcome to the latest chapter in America's long, ugly history of nativism
June 12, 2014
Watching Your World Cup Team Triples Your Chance of Having a Heart Attack
May 29, 2014
Why Do People Call Ms. Maya Angelou "Dr. Maya Angelou"?
Against title inflation in America
May 13, 2014
Five Startling Statistics About America's Dreadful Record on HIV/AIDS
December 31, 2013
Eating Bacteria Could Be the Future of Medicine
December 27, 2013
It's Time to Ditch the Word "Cancer"
A label that misleads patients and helps quacks

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