Health
Cuba's Innovative Cancer Vaccine Is Finally Coming to America
The country has a whole arsenal of unique drugs locked behind the U.S. embargo.
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Conflicted About Having Kids: Your Thoughts
Many of you have responded to Olga’s call for stories about why you decided to have kids or not. One…
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How Sexist Speech Impacts Stress and Self-Esteem
Hearing discriminatory comments changes how people think.
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Daniel Garcia / AFP /Getty Why Morning People Thrive
Some neuroscientists are trying to change school and work hours that discriminate against night owls.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Lasting Harm of Trump-Style Sexism
The Republican nominee has dismissed his misogynist speech as “just words.” But multiple studies show rude rhetoric can have a major impact on thinking, stress, and self-esteem.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child
For men and women, extending adolescence has the potential to make the brain more capable in adulthood.
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Mayte Torres / Getty Most Babies Don’t Need Breathing Monitors
There’s no real evidence that consumer devices keep infants safer, and doctors say “peace of mind” isn’t a good enough reason to buy them.
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National ... How Ebola Adapted to Us
During the recent record-breaking outbreak, the virus picked up a mutation that made it better at infecting human cells.
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Jaelynn Castillo / Shutterstock / Katie Martin A Diary of Toxic Love
He said she was oversensitive. She said his constant criticism was tantamount to emotional abuse.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Preschooler's Empathy Void
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.
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Adopting an Embryo
Here’s a very rare experience that we haven’t seen in our reader series yet: embryo adoption. It’s a middle ground…
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Matt Rourke / AP Trump's Health Plan: Pay Your Own Medical Bills Using Money You Saved
The candidate called a special “meeting” to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
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Spike Mafford / Getty Why Some Women Still Can't Get Birth Control
Even after Obamacare, millions of women are uninsured and live in counties with few family-planning clinics.
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Jerry Mosey / AP The Different Stakes of Male and Female Birth Control
A clinical trial of contraceptives for men was halted because of side effects—side effects that women have dealt with for decades.
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Born With Two Vaginas—Then Giving Birth
Yesterday we heard from a reader with uterus didelphys, a genetic condition that forms two vaginas, two cervixes, and two…
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters When National Turmoil Becomes Personal Anxiety
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.
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Born With Two Vaginas
A reader writes: I have uterus didelphys—a.k.a. having two uteri, two cervixes, and two…
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‘It Felt Like Something of Mine Was Stolen’
Among the many emails we’ve received from readers struggling with infertility, one of the emotions that keeps coming…
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USDA The Dairy Industry Lost $420 Million From a Flaw in a Single Bull
Farmers have quadrupled how much milk a typical cow can make, but there are hidden downsides.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Do You Know More About Health Than Donald Trump?
The candidate lacks a basic understanding of the enormous problems with American medical care.
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‘Infertility Is Brutal on Marriage’—or Not?
Below are two very different reactions to our previous note, “When Infertility Threatens Marriage,” which featured…
