The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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Dieu Nalio Chery / AP Why Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals Oppose the Health Law
Professional organizations are speaking up.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters A Mandate, in Other Words
The proposed health-care bill has a different name for penalizing uninsured people.
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Matthew Mead / AP The Trick Smoothies Play on the Stomach
Strategic blending can delay hunger.
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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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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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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.
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Marc Serota / Reuters The Protests Against Hospitals’ Mar-a-Lago Connections
Two prominent medical centers are hosting fundraising galas at the Trump resort this month, drawing protests from doctors and patients.
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Jackie Lay / The Atlantic How to Make Time Pass Quickly
… if you are so inclined.
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The Atlantic Why Every Year Feels Shorter Than the Last
We asked a time expert.
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Carolyn Kaster / Evan Vucci / AP It May Be Unhealthy to Drink Tears
The resurgent ritual of mocking people for crying is a suboptimal source of social validation.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters What Do You Mean by 'The Media?'
The term has been weaponized.
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Ways to Avoid Staring at Your Phone Before Bed
Every night, set aside “the amazing hour."
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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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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Mistakes in 'Paleo' Eating
A meaningful diet resolution might be to eat more sustainably.
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Jacob Harris / AP The Buried Story of Male Hysteria
When men actually began to be diagnosed as “hysterics,” doctors searched for a cause. They found a chemical that may be on the rise again today.
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Agence Photographique BSIP / Getty Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors
New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters No Doctor Should Work 30 Straight Hours Without Sleep
The American medical system requires dangerous feats of sleep deprivation. It doesn’t have to.
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Mauricio Alejo How to Sleep
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.
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Charles Krupa / AP Is Fermented Tea Making People Feel Enlightened Because of ... Alcohol?
The ethanol in kombucha has some regulators concerned about the popular microbial drink.
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The Kombucha Freedom Warrior
As fermented products become a health fad, questions of regulation arise. One man is fighting back.
