“Every moment of every day is about survival,” says Melodie, who’s in her early 60s, unemployed,…

We have either been there or will be at some point—dependent on a lifesaving medicine…

In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin theorized that music was a kind of protolanguage,…

Many of us spend hours of the day, perhaps all day, inside homes, offices, or…

Cancer. The word is so ghastly that obituary writers invented code for it: “a long…

Author note: The names of the interviewed subjects have been changed to protect their identities.…

For years, patients have pursued cosmetic surgery to look better in selfies and social media…

An increasing number of medical schools across the country are using simulation programs to teach…

For many, the term “eugenics” invokes Nazi Germany. This is sensible, given the expansive sterilization…