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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Bob Wands / AP The Quick Therapy That Actually Works
Just a few hours of therapy-like interventions can reduce some people’s anxiety.
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Jan Havicksz Steen / Fine Art Images / ... Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients
Hundreds of people say a Michigan doctor falsely diagnosed them with epilepsy. He wouldn’t be the first to lie to patients about how sick they are.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Really, Really Early
“Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed.
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Celia Talbot Tobin / The New York Times ... Why Many Mass Shooters Are ‘Loners’
Social rejection can fuel violence, but only if the perpetrator has access to a deadly weapon.
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Jim Watson / AFP /Getty Why Won’t Democrats Blame Hospitals?
Democratic presidential candidates paint insurers as the health-care bogeymen, letting providers off the hook.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty John Delaney Had One Good Point on Medicare for All
Moving the whole country to public insurance could result in two tiers of health care. In fact, it did in Brazil.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Real Difference Between Smoking and Eating Marijuana
There might be a simple explanation for why edibles make some people so paranoid.
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Eloy Alonso / Reuters What It Means to Be a Bad Mom
Inside the mind of a psychologist who helps determine whether parents are “good enough” to keep their children
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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
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Morphart Creation / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Suffragists Who Opposed Birth Control
Their reasoning shows how far women’s rights have come since the late 1800s.
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David Gray / Reuters The Reason Anxious People Often Have Allergies
There might be a hidden link between seasonal sniffles and mood disorders.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Discouraging Way Doctors Are Just Like Their Patients
Even the best-informed patients—physicians—don’t always follow medical advice when it comes to their own treatment.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Radical Way to Stop Heroin Overdoses
In a nationwide first, New Jersey will allow paramedics to initiate buprenorphine, a medication that can treat opioid addiction.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Biden’s Odd Slip of the Tongue
On the second night of the Democratic debates, the former vice president suggested, puzzlingly, that he would jail insurance executives.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Democrats Search for the Holy Grail of Health Care
The 2020 contenders disagree on whether the health-care system needs a major overhaul or incremental fixes.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters What the U.S. Medical System Can Learn From Estonia
Americans waste time and money filling out paperwork and repeating tests in the doctor’s office. A small Baltic nation has found a better way.
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Stoyan Neno / Reuters The Startling Rise of Choking During Sex
A quarter of women in the U.S. report feeling scared during sex.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters A Brit’s Advice for the U.S. Health-Care System
An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mind-set.
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Ilbusca / Getty A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.
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Mathew Sumner / AP The Misplaced Optimism in Legal Pot
A new study throws cold water on hopes that more liberal cannabis policies could stem the opioid epidemic.
