The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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Enrique De La Osa/Reuters How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime
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AP Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question (2016)
Food and relationships still matter.
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Alex Todorov / The Atlantic The New American Face
Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Health Under Trump
Trumpcare could set medicine back decades.
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Daniel Garcia / AFP /Getty Why Morning People Thrive
Some neuroscientists are trying to change school and work hours that discriminate against night owls.
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Matt Rourke / AP Trump's Health Plan: Pay Your Own Medical Bills Using Money You Saved
The candidate called a special “meeting” to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Do You Know More About Health Than Donald Trump?
The candidate lacks a basic understanding of the enormous problems with American medical care.
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Sebastien Nogier / Reuters Millennial Women Have Closed the Drinking Gap
Decoupling alcohol and masculinity
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Mike Roemer / AP Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8
New evidence of the danger of the sport
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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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Nicolas Pollock and Jackie Lay / The Atlantic Ask Jim: Is It Better to Work Only Night Shifts, or Bounce Back and Forth?
It may be best to keep your schedule as regular as possible.
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Brennan Linsley / AP 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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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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Nicolas Pollock / The Atlantic How to Email
An etiquette update: Brevity is the highest virtue.
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How an Editor Stays at Inbox Zero
A few simple rules could help you spend less time answering emails.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What's Going On With Trump's Sniffling?
If this were Clinton, wild speculation would abound.
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G.L. Kohuth / Michigan State University A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters
In a unique, home-spun experiment, researchers found that centripetal force could help people pass kidney stones—before they become a serious health-care cost.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Not All Who Wear Fitness Trackers Are Lost
But there is one key psychological fallacy to avoid.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Food
What we eat may be the most important issue before the country.
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Nicolas Pollock / The Atlantic One Clinic Is Promising to Cut the Cost of Egg Freezing in Half
Always read the fine print.
