In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
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The Case for Believing Women Who Are In Pain
Sixteen percent of women suffer from a condition you’ve probably never heard of.
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The American Dental Refugees of Mexico’s ‘Molar City’
Los Algodones is a popular destination for people in search of cheap dental care — many of whom voted for Trump.
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The Shelf Life of John Mackey
Whole Foods’ eccentric founder changed the way Americans consume food. Can he survive the Wall Street forces that now want to consume him?
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America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic
Ground zero in the AIDS crisis happened on June 5th, 1981, when the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report identified five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in previously healthy white men in Los Angeles. The sixth case — a gay African-American man who had contracted PCP and cytomegalovirus — went undocumented and that critical omission […]
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A Tale of Two Americas Through the Lens of Health Care
Rich patient or poor patient? The New York Times and the Washington Post have dedicated a series to each.
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Our Messed-Up Relationship with Food Has a Long History. It Started With Butter.
Our on-again, off-again, on-again relationship with the holy (yes, holy) fat.
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RAWR! What’s Happening to Me? The Truth is Out There (About Menopause)
Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel speak frankly about perimenopause and menopause to destigmatize the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle.
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How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost It All
Paul Mason ballooned to 980 lbs. eating to forget childhood abuse and horrific loneliness. Mason lost 700 lbs. after bariatric surgery and discovers that, despite the experiences now available to him with newfound mobility, happiness remains elusive; dramatic weight loss does nothing to treat the underlying depression and emotional trauma that caused him to eat […]
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Autism’s hidden habit
Addicted and autistic? The unexpected biological and psychological commonalities of addiction and autism and some new science which suggests that combination may be more common than you think.