Addicts Who Can't Get Opioids Are Overdosing on a Diarrhea Drug
“We’ve had patients tell us they take 400 to 500 tablets day … They put it in a blender and make a smoothie and drink it over one or two hours.”
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Robert Jordan / AP The Government's Weed Is Terrible
… and that’s a big problem for medical marijuana research.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Blood From Human Umbilical Cords Can Rejuvenate Old Mouse Brains
Several studies now suggest that young plasma has revitalizing properties—and with results this intriguing, it’s no wonder there is drama brewing among the scientists involved.
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Michael Kraus / JPC-PROD / Shutterstock / Katie ... Why Does America Have Fewer Types of IUDs Than Other Countries?
The land of choice has more limited options when it comes to contraception.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Link Between Opioids and Unemployment
A new study finds that as the jobless rate rises, so do drug overdoses.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Crest Has a Terrible Leaking-Toothpaste Problem
The mess made me appreciate good toothpaste-tube design.
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Navistock / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... You Are Not Connected
Facebook Messenger's automated notification for new friends could use some help.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Why Wasn't Trumpcare More Popular?
Conservative health-care analysts on why the GOP couldn’t come up with a stronger replacement for Obamacare
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Petros Giannakouris / AP It's True, Hot Baths Burn Calories
Why calorie counting is almost useless and often misleading
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters The Deadly Downside of Marathons
A new study finds that mortality from heart attacks is higher on days with major races.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Is Trumpcare Dead or Alive?
Repealing Obamacare and reviving the GOP’s once-doomed bill are top priorities once again, despite a vow to move on to tax reform.
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Can Feedback-Informed Treatment Work in Practice?
Besides the common questions I addressed in my last note, many readers raised questions about the logistics of implementing FIT…
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Fred Dufour / AFP / Getty Can a Difficult Childhood Enhance Cognition?
Poverty tends to dampen test scores, but new research suggests people with hard upbringings can sometimes outperform their more-privileged peers.
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Matt Rourk / AP Vitamins and the Failure of Free-Market Health
The booming dietary-supplement industry is plagued by outlandish claims, undermining credible science, and seeding confusion.
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What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know, Cont’d
First, I want to say thank you for your thoughtful comments on my article “What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know…
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Jorge Silva / Reuters The Prison-Health Paradox
Incarceration can sometimes reduce mortality—but only when life on the outside is worse.
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Reuters / Florida Department of Agriculture Division of ... When Globalization Brings Brain-Invading Worms
The parasite that causes rat lungworm disease is now endemic in the southeastern United States, and it’s expected to spread northward.
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters How Loneliness Begets Loneliness
Social isolation kills, and in the process it makes it harder to reach out to others. A psychologist explains how to break the cycle.
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Ammar Abdullah / Reuters A History of Sarin as a Weapon
It has only been used in three attacks—Tuesday's attack in Syria may have been No. 4.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Hasty Resurrection of the American Health Care Act
The Republican plan to replace Obamacare is back under discussion, but its prospects for success are no clearer than they were before.
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Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic The Unfit President
Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy.
