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Brad Phillips: I Have Written Down the Worst of Me

Brad Phillips: I Have Written Down the Worst of Me

On Sex, Drugs, and Filling the Empty Spaces

By Brad Phillips | January 29, 2019

Want To Be Happy? Live Like a Woman Over 50

Want To Be Happy? Live Like a Woman Over 50

"Happiness depends on how we deal with what we are given."

By Mary Pipher | January 29, 2019

Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

When a Cook Confronts Her Mother's Illness

By Karen Babine | January 8, 2019

What to Read While You're Recovering from Top Surgery

What to Read While You're Recovering from Top Surgery

These Books Arrived Exactly When I Needed Them

By Davey Davis | January 2, 2019

Parents: If You're Letting Your Child Wear a Hat, You're Doing it Wrong

Parents: If You're Letting Your Child Wear a Hat, You're Doing it Wrong

The 18th-Century German Medical Advice You Didn't Know You Needed

By Thomas Morris | December 6, 2018

Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

From Human Skulls to the "Milk of Human Kindness"

By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall | November 20, 2018

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From Adderall to Opioids, the Personal Side of an American Tragedy

By Chris McGreal | November 19, 2018

What Mysteries and Medicine Have in Common

By Arnold van de Laar | October 19, 2018

Heather Havrilesky: There Are Too Many Gurus in America

By Heather Havrilesky | October 5, 2018

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

Maggie Levantovskaya on Her Life with Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | October 2, 2018

The Sandwich That Helped Feed Puerto Rico After FEMA Failed

The Sandwich That Helped Feed Puerto Rico After FEMA Failed

Chef José Andrés on Getting to Work in the Aftermath of Maria

By José Andrés and Richard Wolffe | September 28, 2018

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

On Gendered Notions of Mental Illness, and Who "Deserves" to Be Depressed

By Sarah Fawn Montgomery | September 24, 2018

Did Dante Alighieri Suffer From a Sleep Disorder?

Did Dante Alighieri Suffer From a Sleep Disorder?

On the Sleeplessness That Makes Patients Weak With Laughter

By Henry Nicholls | September 7, 2018

What Kind of Personality Type Was Truman Capote?

What Kind of Personality Type Was Truman Capote?

Merve Emre on the Berkeley Researchers Determined to Unlock the Secrets of Creativity

By Merve Emre | September 5, 2018

What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

On Neurochemistry, Lucia Berlin, and the Dangers of Empathy Loss

By Maryanne Wolf | August 8, 2018

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

From the Annals of Questionable Ideas in Medicine

By Mimi Swartz | August 3, 2018

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