How a True-Crime Podcast Became a Mental-Health Support Group
Listening to stories of grisly murders allows some people to exorcise their fears, and the community built around the show encourages listeners to take care of themselves.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With a Person’s Own Microbes
A new approach to treating eczema harnesses the defensive bacteria that already live on us.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic When Picture-Day Combs Don't Actually Comb
How differences fundamentally shape even our smallest rituals
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Axel Pfaender When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.
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hides / Duplass / Paul Spella / The ... Zapping Your Brain at Home to Cure Fatigue
How a low dose of electrical current is helping some patients overcome tiredness and cognition problems
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Lawrence Berkeley National Library Is the Leading Theory About Alzheimer's Wrong?
Yet another failed drug trial has prompted soul-searching about the “amyloid hypothesis.”
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Saty + Pratha / Mosaic The Promise of 3-D Printing Body Parts
Cheap, easy-made prosthetics could address a major need in developing nations.
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AP Milo Yiannopoulos and the Myth of the Gay Pedophile
The journalist’s comments suggest gay men enjoy sex with children—an idea that has been widely debunked.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic My Lifelong Frizz-Ease Addiction
How I became convinced my hair wasn’t curly, it was defective
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Jim Young / Reuters Why So Many Young Doctors Work Such Awful Hours
Neither truck drivers nor bankers would put up with a system like the one that influences medical residents’ schedules.
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Bettmann / Getty A Tortured Love of Vitamin D
Why it may never be possible to recommend that everyone take a supplement—as much as people want to believe
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic Skin-Firming as Self-Flagellation
Using a remedial lotion—that may not even work—only worsened my body image.
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How Would Immortality Change the Way We Live?
Some people are taking steps now to prepare for a life without death.
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Cait May / The Atlantic Should We Die?
Radical longevity may change the way we live—and not necessarily for the better.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic How Concealer Covers Up Women's Labor
Many women’s magazines promise to show readers how to fake eight hours of sleep with the help of the neutral paste, and an arsenal of highlighters, lash curlers, and other tools.
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Zoran Milich / Reuters Anatomy of a Cheese Recall
The Listeria contamination tied to an Indiana cheese factory reveals some of the complexities of the U.S. supply-chain.
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Vanessa McKeown / Spectrum The Flawed Designs of Drug Trials for Autism
Can a new clinical approach end a pattern of failure and frustration?
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Reuters Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?
Hypervigilance and an inability to relax without guilt may lead some people to blunt their emotions through work.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Hundred-Year-Old Fix for Razor Bumps
There are a slew of products aimed at black men with this problem, but I found relief in early-20th-century razor technology. Now, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has built a company around the old-fashioned solution.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Conservatives to GOP: Hurry Up and Repeal Obamacare
With progress stalled, hard-liners have a message for wavering Republicans in Congress: Buck up and get on with it.
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Polizei Herne / AP If You've Been Shot, It May Be Prudent to Have the Bullet Removed
New evidence says leaving bullets inside of gunshot victims could cause mental deterioration.
