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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
I’m an IVF Doctor. ⁠The Annual Ob-Gyn Visit Needs a Redesign.
The 33-year-old patient who comes to me in tears is the one the gynecologist never properly educated because the insurance codes wouldn’t pay for it.
Brian A. Levine, MD
The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die
‘I don’t want my little girl to die,’ Cissy Dekker said about her 19-year-old daughter, Iris. ‘But out of love, I also don’t want this life for her.’
Rupa Subramanya
Going for the Gold—on Steroids
Athletes at this weekend’s Enhanced Games are encouraged to use drugs that would otherwise destroy their reputations. Could this be the future of…
Noah Bernstein
Humanity Is Still Evolving—and Fast
For decades, many scientists insisted that human evolution essentially stopped 50,000 years ago. A groundbreaking new paper proves them wrong.
Razib Khan
EXCLUSIVE: Cannabis Giants Sued for Marketing Weed as Medicine
A new class-action lawsuit alleges three of America’s largest marijuana companies know that science doesn’t support their health claims—but keep saying…
Josh Code
Will We Ever Have Viagra for Women?
A new documentary argues that the sexism of the medical industry explains the pink pill’s failure to launch. That’s not strictly true.
Jennifer Block
How Perimenopause Became America’s New Health Scare
Influencers are selling lubricants. Gwyneth Paltrow is talking about hormone replacement therapy. Drug companies are paying for ghostwritten articles…
Kara Kennedy
I Thought I Was Autistic. I Was Wrong.
After spending most of my life feeling different and alone, an autism diagnosis gave me the kind of relief that was impossible to resist. But it was…
Christina Buttons
Can Peptides Really Reverse Aging?
Peptide enthusiasts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say these drugs can do everything from rejuvenating skin to accelerating the healing of injuries…
Faye Flam
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