Health
Why Doctors Without Borders Refused a Million Free Vaccines
The climax of a standoff with the pharmaceutical industry over high prices
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Katherine Wells / The Atlantic How Night Shifts Perpetuate Health Inequality
Methods for approaching them as safely as possible
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Clinton’s Unapologetic Defense of Abortion Rights
Rarely have presidential nominees declared, without qualification, that it’s a woman’s right to choose.
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Stringer / AP A Gene That Could Help Explain Why Lithium Stabilizes Mood
It's always been a mystery why the drug works to treat bipolar disorder, but a new study sheds light on a possible mechanism.
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Jim Young / Reuters Will Winter Kill Zika?
Colder weather kills mosquitoes, but it doesn't mean the virus is no longer a threat.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters When Epidemics Go Viral
Governments grapple with social media’s role in spreading information and shaping public opinion during a health crisis.
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NIAID/NIH / Wikimedia Commons / Zak Bickel / ... A Google Maps for the Human Body
A group of scientists has taken the first important steps towards creating the Human Cell Atlas—a complete inventory of our staggeringly diverse cells.
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Paul Sakuma / AP What's 'Healthy'? What's 'Natural'?
Consumers, food companies, and lawyers are curious.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why People Fall for Charismatic Leaders
A new book explores how fear, uncertainty, and group psychology lead people to believe leaders who say false things.
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Rick Dove, Waterkeeper Alliance North Carolina's Floods Threaten to Unleash Lagoons of Pig Poop
Floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew are still rising, and the worst is yet to come.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters 'Let Us Give Our Families the Care We Give Your Families'
Vickie Miller, a home-care worker in Greenville, South Carolina, says her profession deserves higher pay and better benefits.
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Wyss Institute at Harvard University To Make Vaccines Anywhere, Just Add Water
By freeze-drying the innards of cells, scientists have created portable drug-manufacturing plants—and sensors for detecting viruses like Zika and Ebola.
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Laura Breiling / Mosaic The Superhero in the Vagina
Can researchers harness the power of protective bacteria to guard against a common infection?
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection When Poison Was Everywhere
A new book explores how and why arsenic found its way into wallpaper, bread, and baby carriages in Victorian times.
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Mike Segar / Reuters When Genetic Autopsies Go Awry
DNA testing the dead sometimes solves unexplained deaths, but it can also leave family members with troubling questions.
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AP Trump's Words Are Not 'Explicit Sex Talk'
Concern isn’t about being "lewd" or "graphic," but about being misogynistic, coercive, abusive, and dehumanizing.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Sports Stats May Be an Ideal Measure of Mental Health
Tracking athletes’ performances could shed light on psychological conditions that are notoriously difficult to quantify.
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USDA Flesh-Eating Worms Have Returned to Florida
Increased trade with Cuba might have brought the little buggers back.
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Chris Helgren / Reuters How Back Pain Took Over the World
The biggest cause of disability around the world is surprisingly banal.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Our Pets, Ourselves
The surprising similarities between America’s human and animal health-care systems
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John Javellana / Reuters Do Hurricanes Really Induce Labor?
It’s not just a myth.
