Your annual doctor’s appointment is supposed to cost nothing. So why are people being charged?
After moving to West Virginia last year, Steve Kuo signed up for a new insurance plan that would…
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,…
The organ donation boom complicating the boundary between life and death
Emily Hoffman was walking home from lunch in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in February 2023, when…
Telehealth “drive thru” care is transforming weight loss, hair loss treatment, and more in the US
A generation or two ago, when Americans had an important but nonemergency medical need, many of them would…
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
For more than a century, the world has run on coal. When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station…
We’re discovering new species fast — and it might help save them
When the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae in 1735, he set out to classify every living…
Baby boomers are aging fast. Adult day care can help their caregivers.
Adult day care centers provide crucial, affordable relief for caregivers, especially members of the “sandwich generation” who are…
730 million people in the world live without power. Progress has stalled
The world is hungrier than ever for energy. Demand for heating, cooling, lighting, computing power, and just getting…
730 million people in the world live without power. Progress has stalled
The world is hungrier than ever for energy. Demand for heating, cooling, lighting, computing power, and just getting…
Smallpox killed 300 million people last century. One man helped stop it.
Had William Foege been a military general or a CEO or a politician, his death on January 24…
“Jobless boom”: Why growth is up and hiring is down
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story is playing out in the US economy right now. The stock…
The case for group therapy
In her late 20s, Christie Tate struggled with crushing loneliness, bulimia, and suicidal thoughts. Then, she had a…