James Hamblin
The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The Tax Bill Is a Health Bill
Implications for longevity and disease go beyond people losing insurance.
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AP Nazis Are Just Like You and Me, Except They're Nazis
… despite what you may have read in The New York Times.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question
When dealing with opinionated family members, how much alcohol is too much? Has anyone’s stomach actually burst from eating too much? Why am I apparently unable to digest entire kernels of corn?
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Vivian Rosas / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How People Came to Believe Blueberries Are the Healthiest Fruit
The story of antioxidants and highly colored foods involves as much marketing as science.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Conservatives Destroying Keurigs Are Inadvertently Joining an Environmentalist Movement
Progressive advocates have been urging people to give up K-Cups for years.
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Theerapan / Sufi / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel ... Have You Ever Tried to Decline an Airplane Napkin?
It’s difficult.
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Hein Nouwens / Mile Atanasov / Shutterstock / ... Placebo Effect of the Heart
After 40 years, millions of procedures, and billions of dollars, doctors are questioning whether a common procedure is doing more harm than good. How much does heart disease depend on a patient’s state of mind?
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Michael Zorn/Invision/AP A Bad Time to Come Out
After years of silence on his sexual orientation, Kevin Spacey issued a bizarre statement on “choosing to live as a gay man” while apologizing for alleged child molestation.
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Mark J. Terrill / AP A Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness
Find the right environment, and very little effort is necessary.
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Knaul et al / The Lancet Where the Opioids Go
While the United States faces an epidemic of narcotic addiction, most of the world dies in pain.
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Ruth Black / Radu Bercan / Shutterstock / ... Google Maps' Failed Attempt to Get People to Lose Weight
Not everyone wants to be reminded of calories when trying to get directions.
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Heng Sinith / AP Gender-Fluid Scouts of America
What is the common thread between objections to gay Boy Scouts and female Boy Scouts?
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Andreas Rentz / Getty / Katie Martin / ... The Audacity of Blaming 'Sex Addiction'
When others might go to prison, powerful people go to rehab.
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Daniel Reich / National Institute of Neurological Disorders ... Scientists Somehow Just Discovered a New System of Vessels in Our Brains
It is unclear what they do—but they likely play a central role in aging and disease.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Impotence of Blaming 'Evil'
If guns aren’t a problem, why does the U.S. have so many more shootings than any other country?
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Price Is Wrong
The secretary of health and human services has left amid a scandal of opulent travel while championing spending cuts.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Ongoing, Quiet Repeal
Despite failed votes, Obamacare is being dismantled internally.
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Michael Dwyer / AP Masculinity Done Well and Poorly
As Trump grieves for the passing of a more violent NFL, the league's players demonstrate a new ideal of manhood.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Doctors: No
Physicians rarely agree on anything as strongly as they do that the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill is harmful.
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Matthias Tunger / Getty How Alternate-Nostril Breathing Works
For the anxiety of letting the world down, a grounding technique
