Olga Khazan
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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Thibault Camus / AP Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Some American women see giving up their babies as more emotionally painful than terminating their pregnancies.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones
I decided to noise-cancel life.
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AfricaStudio / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... Rise of the Lady Backpack
Some white-collar women are ditching their purses for a more practical toting solution. They say they’ll never go back.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Do Married Millennials Cheat on Each Other?
For young couples these days, there seems to be more adulting, less adultery.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Some Immigrants Choose Between Food Stamps and a Green Card
A Trump proposal is scaring legal immigrants away from essential health programs.
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Rufus Cox / Getty The ‘Cuddle Hormone’ Might Help America Take On the Obesity Epidemic
The brain chemical oxytocin appears to make people feel full and reduce overeating. Can it encourage weight loss?
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Images The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat
Companies are racing to develop real chicken, fish, and beef that don’t require killing animals. Here’s what’s standing in their way.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills
Other countries still have health insurers, but they avoid five-figure medical bills. The answer lies in how the insurers and doctors are regulated.
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MoonRock / Swill Klitch / Shutterstock / Katie ... Invisible Middlemen Are Slowing Down American Health Care
Nurses spend 16 hours on the phone, medications take months to arrive, and patients suffer as they wait.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Real Problem With Trigger Warnings
Alerts about classroom reading have been accused of weakening America's college students. But they might not do anything at all.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Americans Are Getting Secondhand Embarrassment From Trump
People are tweeting more about feeling embarrassed, and many of those tweets refer to the president.
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Nir Elias / Reuters Your Pillows Might Be Killing Your Neck
After waking up with a searing pain that radiates down to my shoulders, I hunt for the culprit.
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Pete Ark / Getty How a Measles Quarantine Can Lead to Eviction
Without paid sick leave, workers who are quarantined for health reasons face job loss and worse.
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Billion Photos / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Americans Are Going Bankrupt From Getting Sick
Doctors’ bills play a role in 60 percent of personal-bankruptcy filings.
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Mitchell Haaseth / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank ... The Truth About People Who Have No Personality
They actually just keep their opinions to themselves.
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Yuri Gripas/ Reuters Kicking the Tires on Medicare for All
Single-payer health-care plans seem foreign to many voters. House Democrats are aiming to change that.
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AnnaTamila / Shutterstock, Katie Martin / The Atlantic Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism
The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Biggest Consequence of Trump’s New Abortion Rule Won’t Be for Abortion
New restrictions on the Title X program may affect poor women’s access to other kinds of health care.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The 7 Most Revealing Moments From a Major Drug-Pricing Hearing
Even pharma executives recognize that drugs cost Americans too much.
