Health
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about a lot of things in public health. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Raw milk is more dangerous than pasteurized milk. And cel...
On Christmas Eve of 2020, my father was admitted to the hospital with sudden weakness. My mother was not allowed to join him. She pleaded with the staff—my d...
Australia’s majority party has introduced a bill in Parliament that would ban children under 16 from social media. The legislation, which would put the onus ...
Couple goals can be amazing—working out together, cooking healthy meals, and cheering each other on sounds great, right? But for one woman, her husband’s ult...
Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.Robert F. Kennedy J...
Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.When I was teaching...
Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.When Mary-Claire Ki...
The last time I sweated through my shirt, I vowed that it would never happen again. Sweat shame had dogged me for too many years. No longer would armpit pudd...
When I was taking German in college in the early years of this millennium, I once stumbled upon a word that appeared foreign even when translated into Englis...
Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockImagine being questioned about complex technical knowledge in front of your peers, supervisors, and members of the public...
Philosophy no Dance’s Mariri Okutsu chatted with Billboard Japan for its Women in Music interview series fe...
A person who is “on the couch” is known to be in therapy, but most therapists these days don’t ask their clients to lie down. The first time mine did, I resi...
Just as a Formula 1 team wouldn’t use shoddy fuel for their cars, elite athletes shouldn’t eat poorly as they try to get the best out of themselves.
Nutri...
Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s improbable nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, actually such a crank? Short answer: yes. But two opi...
The housing crisis is pushing more and more people onto the streets. More than one in 10 Canadians report experiencing some form of homelessness in their lif...
The news came four years ago, at the end of a casual phone call. Bill’s family had always thought it was a freak coincidence that his father and grandfather ...
People who are incarcerated can't protect themselves when a hurricane or wildfire threatens. Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe United S...
A bad relationship can really affect your mental health, but a toxic ex can make it even worse by continuing to ruin your life. Some former partners just can...
The reelection of Donald Trump might seem like doomsday for America’s public-health agencies. The president-elect has vowed to dismantle the federal bureaucr...
Anxiety, depression, and stress have become common in everyday modern life, impacting relationships, families, communities, and even the workplace. In fact...
Jan Krava/ShutterstockNearly five years into the pandemic, COVID is feeling less central to our daily lives.
But the virus, SARS-CoV-2, is still around, ...
