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You’re Doing Your Annual Physical All Wrong
Your yearly visit should feel less like a clearance exam and more like a strategy session. Medicine has largely forgotten how to run one.
Charlotte Grinberg, MD
What if the Right Is Right About Sex Ed?
Teen pregnancy is at record lows. Defunding prevention programs isn’t a sinister plot—it’s sensible.
Kat Rosenfield
The Lettuce That Launched a Thousand Headlines
The cyclosporiasis outbreak is the fourth this year the media has blamed on Trump and RFK Jr. None of them have killed a single person.
Alex Berenson
You Get Testosterone! You Get Testosterone!
Secretary Hegseth plans to screen soldiers over 30 for testosterone to keep them on the ‘leading edge of lethality.’ Doctors have doubts.
Rafaela Siewert
Death by Telehealth
A dental student went to the ICU. He died without ever being examined by a doctor.
Tanya Lukyanova
Why the Left Hates the Medicine That Made Me a Mom
The media has called my fertility treatment right-wing quackery. A year after my daughter’s birth, it still won’t give restorative reproductive medicine…
Madeleine Kearns
The Women Who Help People Die
They’ll plan your funeral, navigate medically assisted dying laws, and keep you company at the end. Death doulas are on the rise, across America—and I…
Kat Rosenfield
Don’t Freak Out About Fruit-Flavored Vapes
Teenagers shouldn’t start vaping, but the FDA’s approval of flavored vapes offers new hope for anyone who wants to quit smoking cigarettes, which are…
Sally Satel
Give the Baby Peanut Butter
For years, parents were told to keep infants away from allergenic foods. The science now says the opposite.
Charlotte Grinberg, MD
The Machines Making People Human Again
ALS patients slowly lose their voices. Neuralink, a medical start-up owned by Elon Musk, can restore them.
Maya Sulkin
Mayim Bialik: My GLP-1 Nightmare
Even when I was too sick to stand, drink water, or think straight, I thought to myself, ‘at least you might lose some weight.’
Mayim Bialik
Your Health Obsession Is Narcissism
Have a glass. Get some sleep. Stop tracking yourself. The millennial fixation with wearable devices and health optimization is pointless quackery.
Alex Berenson
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