Podcasts Are the New Xanax
“I could take a bath in Paris while listening to someone in Los Angeles complain about her dating life.”
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters No, We Can’t Say Whether Cancer Is Mostly Bad Luck
How some media outlets magnified the problems with a controversial new paper
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Atheists Struggling to Find Therapists in the Bible Belt
The rise of faith-based counseling in America’s most Christian regions has brought the clash over religious liberties to the therapist’s couch.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Obamacare Won't Explode Unless Trump Wants It To
Prices may rise for enrollees, but there are ways the administration can prevent that. The question is whether it will.
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Luke MacGregor / Reuters Escaping Office Ennui Through Painful Exercise
A study explores how Tough Mudders allow the “cognitariat” a break from the tedium of sedentary work
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Katie Workman / AP Does Being Vegan Make a Person Less Aggressive?
Or more?
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Trey Banbury / Pennsylvania State University The Comics Revealing Medical School's Hidden Flaws and Hard Lessons
How “graphic medicine” is helping some students survive the bottom of the hospital pecking order
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Thierry Charlier / AP Americans Prefer Their Employers, Not the Government, to Provide Health Benefits
People want more medical leave, but like other perks, they prefer for it to come from companies.
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Susan Walsh / AP Conservatives Threaten to Sink Republican Health-Care Bill
With GOP leaders in need of votes, Trump reopened negotiations with the House Freedom Caucus to save the Obamacare repeal.
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Wikimedia Commons Can Old Prescription Drugs Provide New Treatments for Alcoholism?
By scouring thousands of medications created for other conditions, a researcher wants to find pills that can help overcome addiction.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Maybe the Economy Isn't the Reason Why So Many American Men Aren't Working
Many experts have blamed a poor job market, but new research indicates that an overlooked cause may be poor health.
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Bettmann / Getty / Zak Bickel / The ... What Hardcore Conservatives Really Want for Health Care
According to the Heritage Foundation—which opposes the GOP replacement bill—the market should rule all and there should be Netflix for doctors.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters How Fear of Deportation Puts Stress on Families
The specter of being removed from the United States has devastating effects on the health of undocumented immigrants and their loved ones.
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The Case for Solitude
Henry David Thoreau is something of a poster child for solitude. In his essay “Walking,” published just after his…
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Roc Morin Erasing the ‘Ownership’ Tattoos on Sex-Trafficking Victims
A woman who escaped the industry reflects on how changes to the body can help with recovery.
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When a Twin Disappears
A reader revives our collection of miscarriage stories with an uncommon case of her own—two cases, in fact: …
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Alvaro Barrientos / AP On Cognitive Doping in Chess (and Life)
Thinking more effectively may mean thinking more slowly.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Silent Victims of the GOP Health-Care Proposal
“Children are the largest single group of beneficiaries on Medicaid—and they don't vote.”
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Reuters The Tiny Trump Budget Cut That Could Blind America to the Next Zika
The Obamacare repeal would halve a little-known fund that’s vital for monitoring unexpected infectious threats.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Trump Tried to Close the Deal on Health Care
The president won over a group of conservatives by agreeing to push the Medicaid provisions in Paul Ryan’s bill further to the right. But key hardliners say the changes don’t go far enough.
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Guillermo Granja / Reuters The 'Anticipatory Anxiety' of Waiting for Disaster
Ecuadorians living in the shadow of the volcano Cotopaxi experience a unique kind of trauma while biding their time before it blows.
