What is ‘digital ibuprofen’ that is helping China’s stressed youth?
Young Chinese people are turning to “digital ibuprofen” to cope with work pressure and economic uncertainty, Firstpost reported.…
Why are doctors paid less for procedures on women?
In the moody alcoves of a lobby bar in Chicago in 2021 over French 75s, Dr. Louise King,…
Insulin pens are supposed to have lower prices now. Why are so many Americans rationing?
A decade ago, insulin became the poster child for America’s out-of-control drug prices. The 2017 death of Alec…
AOC is freezing her eggs. Many Americans don’t have the money or info to do the same.
Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced on Instagram that she had joined the thousands of American…
This money trend from the Great Recession is relevant in 2026
If you live in America in 2026, and you’re not so wealthy as to be absolutely shielded from…
NY Essential Plan: What To Do If You Lose Health Care on July 1
Are you one of the hundreds of thousands New Yorkers impacted by the coverage cliff for Essential Plan…
Why America’s HIV epidemic hasn’t ended
Brenton Williams finally felt he had the proper health insurance to ask his doctor about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis),…
Trump economy: Jobs are up, inflation is down — but voters are still mad
President Donald Trump spent much of the past year engineering price increases, financial panics, and trade wars. Nonetheless,…
The EPA is changing how it considers the costs and benefits of air pollution rules — to favor polluters
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people:…
What ChatGPT Health can actually tell you — and what it can’t
How often have you asked ChatGPT for health advice? Maybe about a mysterious rash or that tightening in…
How superintelligent AI could rob us of agency, free will, and meaning
Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot…
The debate over Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, explained
Chloé Zhao’s lyrical, elegiac new film Hamnet, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, has been an Oscars…