Why Did People on Medicaid Vote for Trump?
A new report explores why those who benefitted from Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion supported the man who promised to reverse it.
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Mark Makela / Reuters The People Helped by the Republican Health-Care Bill
Though most old and sick people will be worse off under the GOP bill, it might be a boon—real or perceived—for people earning just above the Obamacare subsidy cutoff.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Conservative Uprising Against the Republican Healthcare Bill
The new GOP proposal drew immediate criticism from lawmakers who argued it doesn’t go far enough in erasing the Affordable Care Act.
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Is a Long Life Really Worth It?
That’s the question that reader John Harris has been asking himself lately. He’s not alone: In 1862, one of The…
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Jim Lo Scalzo / Reuters / Pool It's Do-or-Die for Repeal-and-Replace
The long-awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare is due out this week, but the scramble for votes has already begun.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Zika Makes Microcephaly 20 Times More Likely
A new CDC report begins to quantify the devastating effects the virus has on children.
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Matthew Mead / AP The Trick Smoothies Play on the Stomach
Strategic blending can delay hunger.
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Pichi Chuang / Reuters Can Salted Doorknobs Prevent Superbug Infections?
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
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Ryan McVay / Getty How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The Geography of Medical Debt
The prevalence of unpaid medical bills varies widely by state, but it affects the South disproportionately.
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Nicole Xu / Spectrum The Hidden Link Between Autism and Addiction
It’s believed that people on the spectrum don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs. New evidence suggests they do.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters How Trump's Cheap Insurance Might Be More Expensive
Choosing skimpier plans may work out for the very healthy or very lucky. Others would be stuck with large, unexpected bills.
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Camilla Perkins / Mosaic India's Movement to Help People Die Better
Volunteers are taking the care of their terminally ill neighbors into their own hands.
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Sagel & Kranefeld / Getty The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
X-rays and other “objective" instruments influenced controversies about whose pain should be believed.
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Why Shouldn't War Vets Get Weed for Their Wounds?
Spurred by our collection of stories from readers who used marijuana as a substitute for prescription opioids, another reader writes…
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Abortion as a ‘Technology From God to Prevent Suffering’
The Zika emergency—thankfully now in the past but still without a vaccine—spread throughout 60 countries and affected thousands of…
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Can Florida's First Needle Exchange Help Curb HIV?
The state leads the nation in new diagnoses, and close to 6 percent are attributed to injection-drug users sharing used or infected needles.
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Delos The Seduction of 'Wellness Real Estate'
Health and architecture are coming together in promising ways. But the luxury market is based on dubious claims.
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Olga R. Rodriguez / AP The Five Biggest Hurdles for Republicans Replacing Obamacare
Several critical policy questions remain unanswered about the emerging GOP plan: How much will it cost? How will they pay for it? How many people will be covered? And what will happen to the parts of the current law that people like the most?
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Lakesideunit.com How World War I Revolutionized Medicine
Advances during the “first mass killing of the 20th century” have saved countless lives since.
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Reuters The Challenge of Accessing Birth Control in the Military
Many women want to stop their periods while in the field, but getting the means to do so can be difficult.
