How Activists Are Protecting Reproductive Rights Under Trump
Taking a page from the anti-abortion lobby, pro-choice groups are pushing proactive legislation at the state level.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters The Toxic Health Effects of Deportation Threat
The fear of immigration raids can harm children’s brains and health, potentially for life.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP The Health Battle Behind America's Next Milk Trend
An ancient variety of milk might do wonders for digestion—or it could be a money grab.
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Debating the Ethics of Egg Donation
After we published a story from a reader who had ethical qualms about using a donated egg that…
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Adopting an Embryo
This reader’s story of building a family has a dramatic series of ups and downs: At first…
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Reuters The DNA Test as Horoscope
Inside the growing world of lifestyle genetics tests
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Meaning of 'Access' to Health Care
Why Republicans like HHS nominee Tom Price are emphasizing “universal access” over “universal coverage”
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‘I Often Think of My Angel Baby’
Sunday was the 44th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and the following day, as one of his first acts as…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters GOP: Shop Around for Surgery
For people sick of high deductibles, Republicans offer high-deductible plans as replacements for Obamacare.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How Ultrasound Became Political
The technology has been used to create sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Republican Health Plan That Doesn't Repeal Obamacare
As the party struggles to agree on a replacement, a group of GOP senators unveil a bill that would give states the option to keep it.
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Pete Marovich / Getty Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters What Is the Right Way to Wash Your Hands?
Redefining “clean” in an era of the skin microbiome
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Raphael Schneider / Getty The Folly of 'Purity Politics'
A new book argues for the value of owning up to your imperfections.
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Dave Imms / Mosaic How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
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Michael Duff / AP A Global Plan to Defend Against the Future's Deadliest Diseases
$460 million will go toward developing vaccines that prevent outbreaks like Ebola from taking the world by surprise.
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Cancer Isn't a Disease
A reader who works in biotech responds to the TAD question, “What is a common and/or annoying…
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Adam Gault / Getty How Reliable Are Cancer Studies?
A project that tried to reproduce the results of 50 landmark papers turned into an arduous slog—and that’s a problem in itself.
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Abhishek Chinnappa / Reuters Why It May Be Counterproductive to Say 'Overweight'
A proposed linguistic change could temper a cultural obsession with body weight.
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Daniel Gasienica / Getty The Shadow Network of Anti-Vax Doctors
Both mainstream and alternative doctors help patients avoid or delay vaccines. Trump’s rhetoric might empower them further.
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Uneasy About the Ethics of Egg Donation
The following reader tells the story of her long battle with infertility that culminated with the successful use of donated…
