The best treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder forces sufferers to confront their fears. But for many patients, the treatment is far out of reach.
A new study explores how children develop a preference for equality and fairness—research that seems relevant as America prepares to elect its next president.
Here’s a very rare experience that we haven’t seen in our reader series yet: embryo adoption. It’s a middle ground…
The candidate called a special ‘meeting’ to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
Even after Obamacare, millions of women are uninsured and live in counties with few family-planning clinics.
A clinical trial of contraceptives for men was halted because of side effects—side effects that women have dealt with for decades.
Yesterday we heard from a reader with uterus didelphys, a genetic condition that forms two vaginas, two cervixes, and two…
The hateful rhetoric and high stakes of the 2016 U.S. election are causing people emotional distress—as politics and uncertain futures have done throughout history.
A reader writes: I have uterus didelphys—a.k.a. having two uteri, two cervixes, and two…
Among the many emails we’ve received from readers struggling with infertility, one of the emotions that keeps coming…
Farmers have quadrupled how much milk a typical cow can make, but there are hidden downsides.
The candidate lacks a basic understanding of the enormous problems with American medical care.
Below are two very different reactions to our previous note, “When Infertility Threatens Marriage,” which featured…
This next reader shows a lot of self-awareness and self-reflection over the trying process he put his wife through, and…
This story from a 39-year-old reader is totally heartbreaking. He and his wife not only struggled for years to conceive—suffering…
The drink has been a folk remedy since its invention, and the spice has been used for digestive problems since ancient times.
Electroconvulsive therapy is far more beneficial—and banal—than its torturous reputation suggests.
Insects that have been implanted with a virus-blocking bacterium will finally be tested at large scales, over two cities in Brazil and Colombia.
A reader writes: I’m 36 and I’ve been struggling with infertility for a bit over a year…
HIV arrived in the U.S. from Haiti a decade before the first cases were identified—and well before the so-called Patient Zero contracted the virus.
The first story in our new reader series comes from a 33-year-old woman who has struggled to conceive for more…