“I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?”
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The Great Ozempic Experiment
“It’s a new era of D.I.Y. medicine. Now the health establishment needs to catch up.”
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What It’s Like to Go Through Perimenopause and Menopause in Prison
“Limited information and a lack of informed health care providers make this life transition even more difficult for incarcerated people.”
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What Happens When You Don’t Die on Time?
“Hélène Campbell was supposed to be long dead by now. She emptied her bucket list, bank account—and, at 34, is left to wonder: ‘What next?’ And she’s not alone.”
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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
“The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?”
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Phantom Pains
“These losses—my limb, my students’ hopes, Thoreau’s mammals, the wings falling from our skies—they are not all that distinct from one another. They can’t be, because all of us, all of the material world, we are one and the same thing.”
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Venom in His Veins
“Bill Haast, the Florida man who tried to milk medical miracles from deadly snakes.”
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How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook
“Two years ago, our cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe woke from a coma and soon learned her body would be profoundly altered. She recounts her journey back to the kitchen, and to herself.”
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On Walking
“To love walking is to love the body, and this has been a barrier for me.”
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The Birth Keepers
“Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births–now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world.”