A Plane Quarantine in New York Started Out Like a Sci-Fi Nightmare
100 supposedly sick passengers ended up only being 10. But the story tapped into potent fears about flying.
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Chones / Shutterstock / Thanh Do / The ... A Week of Darkness, for Your Health
In the Czech Republic, terapie tmou is said to restore the psyche—through seven days without light.
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Edgar Su / Reuters A Frightening New Reason to Worry About Air Pollution
A massive study solidifies the link between particulates from cars and diabetes.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Hateful Messages Are an Occupational Hazard of Journalism
The stress of dealing with them wears on reporters, and it can be hard to know when they mean real danger.
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Paul Gilham / Getty Images How One Number Could Change the Lives of People With a Rare Disorder
People with Angelman syndrome now have their own unique medical code, which will make it easier to track and study the condition.
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Getty The States That Exercise Least
A new CDC report highlights geographical trends in leisure-time physical activity.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Normalization of Gun Violence in Poor Communities
A company that uses sensors to recognize the sound of gunshots could help solve the epidemic.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Want Health Care in Arkansas? Find a Job
A conversation with the head of the department of human services in the first state to force a group of people to work in exchange for medical care
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Brian Snyder / Reuters An ‘Overprescription of Opioids’ That Led to a Crisis
The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse pointed to economic factors as a cause of the epidemic.
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Kenny-Katombe Butunka / Reuters How Will Trump Lead During the Next Global Pandemic?
“There is a real reason for us to be scared,” President Obama’s Ebola czar said.
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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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Richard Vogel / AP The New Model for a Health-First Approach to Legalizing Weed
Canada’s marijuana legalization offers lessons for the rest of the world.
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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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Axel Bueckert / Shutterstock A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism
By studying rats in a smarter way, scientists are finally learning something useful about why some drinkers become addicted and others don’t.
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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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Maciek Jasik When Children Say They’re Trans
Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers.
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Jonno Rattman The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters When Police Officers Mistake Autism for Suspicious Behavior
Law enforcement’s encounters with people on the spectrum often go wrong. Some police departments are trying to change that.
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Gerald Herbert / AP What to Eat in the Texas Suburbs
No, not Austin.
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Jared Soares 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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Jorge Silva / Reuters Climate Change Is Going to Make Scott Pruitt Need So Much Moisturizer
The EPA administrator’s apparent taste for fancy lotion will become more expensive if his agency continues to undermine efforts to address the planet's warming.
