The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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Jacob Harris / AP The Buried Story of Male Hysteria
When men actually began to be diagnosed as “hysterics,” doctors searched for a cause. They found a chemical that may be on the rise again today.
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Agence Photographique BSIP / Getty Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors
New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters No Doctor Should Work 30 Straight Hours Without Sleep
The American medical system requires dangerous feats of sleep deprivation. It doesn’t have to.
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Mauricio Alejo How to Sleep
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.
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Charles Krupa / AP Is Fermented Tea Making People Feel Enlightened Because of ... Alcohol?
The ethanol in kombucha has some regulators concerned about the popular microbial drink.
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The Kombucha Freedom Warrior
As fermented products become a health fad, questions of regulation arise. One man is fighting back.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Surgeon Extracting Government From Medicine
Trump’s new secretary of health and human services intends to make life better for physicians.
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Enrique De La Osa/Reuters How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime
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AP Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question (2016)
Food and relationships still matter.
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Alex Todorov / The Atlantic The New American Face
Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Health Under Trump
Trumpcare could set medicine back decades.
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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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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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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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Sebastien Nogier / Reuters Millennial Women Have Closed the Drinking Gap
Decoupling alcohol and masculinity
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Mike Roemer / AP Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8
New evidence of the danger of the sport
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Katherine Wells / The Atlantic How Night Shifts Perpetuate Health Inequality
Methods for approaching them as safely as possible
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Nicolas Pollock and Jackie Lay / The Atlantic Ask Jim: Is It Better to Work Only Night Shifts, or Bounce Back and Forth?
It may be best to keep your schedule as regular as possible.
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Brennan Linsley / AP Why Doctors Without Borders Refused a Million Free Vaccines
The climax of a standoff with the pharmaceutical industry over high prices
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AP Trump's Words Are Not 'Explicit Sex Talk'
Concern isn’t about being "lewd" or "graphic," but about being misogynistic, coercive, abusive, and dehumanizing.
