A Rational Case for Following Your Emotions
Feelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Democrats Search for the Holy Grail of Health Care
The 2020 contenders disagree over whether the health-care system needs a major overhaul or incremental fixes.
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Ted Soqui / Getty Free Solo Is Not a Life Lesson
Alex Honnold’s historic climb is too extraordinary to become a story of motivational-poster determination.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Two Technologies Changing the Future of Cancer Treatment
Researchers are eager to leave behind the brutal side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
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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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Joerg Sarbach / AP The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud
The average hospitalized patient endures 350 alarms each day.
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Lois S. Wiggs / CDC Should Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?
A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.
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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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Ben Curtis / Associated press What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right
To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.
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bookzv / Shutterstock The Pediatrician’s Most Awkward Task
Can doctors teach people how to parent?
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Vanessa Branchi / Spectrum Autism’s Trendiest Alternative Treatment Has No Plausible Explanation
Some chiropractors claim they can “correct” autism by manipulating the spine.
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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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Xinzheng / Getty Human Lives Might Be Long Enough Already
Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.
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Abbie Parr / Getty The Sex Exercise Myth That Won’t Go Away
Many athletes are told to think about pre-workout sex all wrong.
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Die. Freeze Body. Store. Revive.
Cryonicists are banking on the idea that future technology will allow preserved bodies to be brought back to life.
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Juul’s New Marketing Is Straight Out of Big Tobacco’s Playbook
The e-cigarette giant is relying on some awfully familiar tactics to distinguish its products.
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Annie Otzen / Getty The End of the Age of Paternity Secrets
A historian of fatherhood wonders whether the rapid embrace of consumer DNA testing will be seen as a positive development in the future.
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Richard Drury / Getty The Tyranny of Workplace Food-Shamers
No one wants opinions on their lunch.
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Courtesy of Karl-Heinz Martens The Tree With Matchmaking Powers
For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.
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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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Michael J P / Shutterstock Finally, an Intervention That Might Have Helped Keep High-Risk Teens Alive
Training trusted adults to check in on recovering adolescents could be an important, yet overlooked, strategy in preventing suicide.
