The Surgeon Who Experimented on Slaves
Fellow doctors have been some of the most prominent defenders of J. Marion Sims, the controversial “father of gynecology.”
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Paul Sakuma / AP Salad Panic
The CDC finally gets people interested in lettuce.
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Laurène Boglio / Spectrum How Exactly Does Autism Muddy Communication?
The root of the problem could be social or linguistic.
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Malcolm Pinckney / NYC Parks Why a Statue of the 'Father of Gynecology' Had to Come Down
J. Marion Sims’s advances in medical science were made through experimentation on enslaved women.
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Charles Krupa / AP How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years
And the United States could, too
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Carmen Heredia Rodriguez / Kaiser Health News Dialysis Patients Are Still Trekking 12 Hours for Care After Hurricane Maria
Left without a hospital, some Puerto Ricans must travel by plane for lifesaving treatment.
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Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / Getty The Human Body Is Too Complex for Easy Fixes
You don’t need to be hacked.
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UCLA Health The Twice-Transplanted Kidney
“Few kidneys would be good enough” for this rare surgery.
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Dara Bramson / Thanh Do / The Atlantic Why My Grandmother Carried a Plastic Brain in Her Purse
She is donating her brain to science, so I visited the place where it will end up.
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Charles Paillasson / Getty Is It Better to Be Polite or Honest?
How centuries of advice columns have answered this and other questions.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters The States Where People Die Young
A new study explores where and why Americans are dying early.
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Jules Julien Your Body is a Teeming Battleground
It’s time to rethink the quest to control aging, death, and disease—and the fear of mortality that fuels it.
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George Frey / Reuters / Thanh Do / ... The Family Trying to Escape Blame for the Opioid Crisis
Relatives of the makers of OxyContin claim they have never benefited from money tied to the painkiller. A court document suggests otherwise.
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Edward Olive / Getty What Do We Make of a Female Active Shooter?
We know very little about women who attempt mass killings, mostly because there are so few of them.
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Ted Horowitz / Getty Can Lost Embryos Give Rise to a Wrongful-Death Suit?
An Ohio couple wants their embryos that were destroyed in a fertility-clinic meltdown to be deemed people.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How DACA Helps Curb Teen Pregnancy
Research shows the program, which protects undocumented young immigrants from deportation, encourages them to stay in school and delay parenthood.
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Scott Olson / Getty What Makes a Serial Bomber Tick?
A former FBI profiler looks at what we can and can’t know about the motives of the man behind the Austin bombings.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Doctor Who Suddenly Got 9 Million Patients
For a position that demands high-level policy expertise, President Trump appointed his personal physician, Ronny Jackson.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters The Diet That Might Cure Depression
Several studies show that healthy eating is connected with better mood.
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Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters Why People Don't Take Lifesaving Medications
People are remarkably bad at getting on and sticking with drug regimens—even when those drugs stop AIDS.
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Why Are So Many Women Dying From Pregnancy in D.C.?
The maternity care desert in the capital is a microcosm of a national crisis.
