Why Did People on Medicaid Vote for Trump?
A new report explores why those who benefitted from Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion supported the man who promised to reverse it.
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Matthew Mead / AP The Trick Smoothies Play on the Stomach
Strategic blending can delay hunger.
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Pichi Chuang / Reuters Can Salted Doorknobs Prevent Superbug Infections?
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
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Ryan McVay / Getty How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The Geography of Medical Debt
The prevalence of unpaid medical bills varies widely by state, but it affects the South disproportionately.
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Nicole Xu / Spectrum The Hidden Link Between Autism and Addiction
It’s believed that people on the spectrum don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs. New evidence suggests they do.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters How Trump's Cheap Insurance Might Be More Expensive
Choosing skimpier plans may work out for the very healthy or very lucky. Others would be stuck with large, unexpected bills.
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Camilla Perkins / Mosaic India's Movement to Help People Die Better
Volunteers are taking the care of their terminally ill neighbors into their own hands.
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Sagel & Kranefeld / Getty The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
X-rays and other “objective" instruments influenced controversies about whose pain should be believed.
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Why Shouldn't War Vets Get Weed for Their Wounds?
Spurred by our collection of stories from readers who used marijuana as a substitute for prescription opioids, another reader writes…
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Abortion as a ‘Technology From God to Prevent Suffering’
The Zika emergency—thankfully now in the past but still without a vaccine—spread throughout 60 countries and affected thousands of…
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Can Florida's First Needle Exchange Help Curb HIV?
The state leads the nation in new diagnoses, and close to 6 percent are attributed to injection-drug users sharing used or infected needles.
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Delos The Seduction of 'Wellness Real Estate'
Health and architecture are coming together in promising ways. But the luxury market is based on dubious claims.
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Olga R. Rodriguez / AP The Five Biggest Hurdles for Republicans Replacing Obamacare
Several critical policy questions remain unanswered about the emerging GOP plan: How much will it cost? How will they pay for it? How many people will be covered? And what will happen to the parts of the current law that people like the most?
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Lakesideunit.com How World War I Revolutionized Medicine
Advances during the “first mass killing of the 20th century” have saved countless lives since.
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Reuters The Challenge of Accessing Birth Control in the Military
Many women want to stop their periods while in the field, but getting the means to do so can be difficult.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With a Person’s Own Microbes
A new approach to treating eczema harnesses the defensive bacteria that already live on us.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic When Picture-Day Combs Don't Actually Comb
How differences fundamentally shape even our smallest rituals
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Axel Pfaender When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.
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hides / Duplass / Paul Spella / The ... Zapping Your Brain at Home to Cure Fatigue
How a low dose of electrical current is helping some patients overcome tiredness and cognition problems
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Lawrence Berkeley National Library Is the Leading Theory About Alzheimer's Wrong?
Yet another failed drug trial has prompted soul-searching about the “amyloid hypothesis.”
