Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Want Health Care in Arkansas? Find a Job
A conversation with the head of the health department in the first state to force a group of people to work in exchange for medical care
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst
The head of the Commonwealth Fund, which compares the health systems of developed nations, pinpoints why America’s is so expensive and inefficient.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Separating Kids From Their Families Can Permanently Damage Their Brains
A pediatrician explains how the trauma of family separation can change biology.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Poor Americans Really Are in Despair
The wealth gap is also a happiness gap.
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Gerald Herbert / AP What to Eat in the Texas Suburbs
No, not Austin.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters Racial Resentment Can Motivate Opposition to Welfare
In a series of experiments, researchers show that when whites feel threatened, they oppose government assistance.
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Delcia Lopez / Reuters ‘More Than a Gag Rule’
The head of a family-planning organization on how Trump’s change to a federal birth-control program will affect women
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Spencer Platt / Getty Another Shocking Opioid Statistic
Another study shows the epidemic is outpacing the resources devoted to it
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Andy Kropa / AP Ambien Doesn’t Cause Racism
Roseanne Barr suggested that the drug prompted her to tweet racist remarks, but is that possible?
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters A Surprising Reason to Worry About Low Birth Rates
They’re linked to an increase in populist sentiments.
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Claudia Totir / Getty / Katie Martin / ... There’s Something About Yogurt
Several new studies suggest yogurt might reduce inflammation—a process linked to different types of diseases.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Rise of Older Mothers
Everyone is having fewer babies in the U.S.—except women in their 40s.
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Stephen Coburn / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Income Affects the Brain
A new study links lower socioeconomic status to detrimental brain changes.
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Gregg Newton / Reuters Professors Explain Why It's Hard to Write Online
They’re not wrong.
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John Vizcaino / Reuters Protecting Police Dogs From Fentanyl
The drug can be extra dangerous when your detective work involves sniffing.
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Andrew Winning / Reuters How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying
Researchers are testing egg-shaped chairs, retroreflective ceilings, and other ways to help people concentrate without cubicles.
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Mike Blake / Reuters In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence
A new study finds police killings exact a toll greater than accidental gun deaths.
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Jason Reed / Reuters The Obesity Cure Is Out of Reach in the Heaviest States
Bariatric surgery works, but hundreds of thousands of eligible patients can’t get it.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor
A new study finds that Trump voters weren’t losing income or jobs. Instead, they were concerned about their place in the world.
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Nir Elias / Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About Marijuana
(A lot.)
