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The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

Theodore H. Schwartz Shares the Story of a Patient with GBM, the Supervillain of Malignant Tumors

By Theodore H. Schwartz | August 14, 2024

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

Natalie Lampert on Moving the Conversation About Controlling Women’s Bodies Beyond Abortion

By Natalie Lampert | July 19, 2024

Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

Peter Hessler Remembers the Pandemic In the Place Where It All Began

By Peter Hessler | July 11, 2024

The Weight We Carry: How Diet Culture Influences Disordered Eating

The Weight We Carry: How Diet Culture Influences Disordered Eating

Emma Specter on the Mental Cost of Counting Calories

By Emma Specter | July 11, 2024

Where There's Smoke... How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

Where There's Smoke... How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

Debra Hendrickson Considers the Impact of Climate Change on Her Career as a Pediatrician

By Debra Hendrickson | July 3, 2024

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Gabrielle Bellot on the Many Benefits of Marijuana (and a Man Who Was Ahead of His Time)

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I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

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Graham Caveney on Cancer, the Body and the Philosophy of Mortality

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What the Toxic Morality of Crowdfunded Healthcare Says About American Society

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Nora Kenworthy on 21st-Century Patchwork Solutions to Persistent Social Inequality

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