A Plane Quarantine in New York Started Out Like a Sci-Fi Nightmare
100 supposedly sick passengers ended up only being 19. But the story tapped into potent fears about flying.
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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.
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Ted S. Warren / AP When Will People Get Better at Talking About Suicide?
As suicide rates rise, and stigma recedes, many discussions and portrayals are still clumsy or hurtful.
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Steven Clevenger / Getty More Americans Are Dying From Suicide
A new report finds that rates have risen in almost every state since 1999.
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype?
Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.
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Heidi de Marco / Kaiser Health News Rich Buyers Are Pushing Rural Hospitals to a Controversial Practice
Some struggling small-town hospitals have embraced a legally murky approach to staying afloat.
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Delcia Lopez / Reuters ‘More Than a Gag Rule’
The head of a family-planning organization on how Trump’s change to a federal birth-control program will affect women
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Evan Vucci / AP The Disingenuousness of ‘Right to Try’
The new law has a catchy name, but it will only make it more difficult to know if medication is effective or safe.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Another Shocking Opioid Statistic
Another study shows the epidemic is outpacing the resources devoted to it
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Andy Kropa / AP Ambien Doesn’t Cause Racism
Roseanne Barr suggested that the drug prompted her to tweet racist remarks, but is that possible?
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AFP Contributor / Getty Why Egypt Is at the Forefront of Hepatitis C Treatment
Despite the availability of revolutionary new drugs, countries with more resources haven’t made as much progress against the disease.
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters A Surprising Reason to Worry About Low Birth Rates
They’re linked to an increase in populist sentiments.
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Mike Bradley / Spectrum Students With Autism Face Vanishing Support at College
The transition out of high school can be especially difficult at schools that lack extra social resources.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty How a Public Suicide Harms the People Who See It
For unwitting bystanders, the experience can be traumatic.
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Claudia Totir / Getty / Katie Martin / ... There’s Something About Yogurt
Several new studies suggest yogurt might reduce inflammation—a process linked to different types of diseases.
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China Daily CDIC / Reuters The Unconscious Rules of Personal Space
The distance you keep from others is an elaborate, instinctive dance.
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Kenny-Katombe Butunka / Reuters Vaccines Alone Won’t Beat Ebola
A deep understanding of the Congo’s culture and time-honored public-health tactics are the keys to controlling the outbreak.
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Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us ... How the U.S. Became the World’s Largest Food-Aid Donor
For its first 150 years, the nation was reluctant to feed the hungry overseas.
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Phil Mislinski / Stringer / Getty Can Genetic Counselors Keep Up With 23andMe?
The rise of spit kits is leaving consumers with lots of data and few answers. Genetic counselors could help people understand these results, but there aren’t enough of them to go around.
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Viktor Kochetkov / Shutterstock Vegan YouTube Stars Are Held to Impossible Standards
Vegans popular on social media often get bullied when they fall short of their fans’ diet demands.
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Cyrus Sinai Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong
Villages, and sometimes whole regions of the Congo, are misplaced—but the ministry of health and a team of cartographers are racing to get better data.
