Worse Than Tuskegee
The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.
The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.
Sushma Subramanian Slate Feb 2017 25min Permalink
An NHL goalie on playing with mental illness.
Corey Hirsch The Players' Tribune Feb 2017 20min Permalink
A husband puts himself in his wife’s shoes—with help from a Japanese scientist.
Benjamin Percy GQ Feb 2013 15min Permalink
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.
Jessica Grose Lenny Feb 2017 10min Permalink
Reflections on two seasons of loss.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Feb 2016 30min Permalink
How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.
Jane Black Huffington Post Feb 2017 25min Permalink
How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.
Josh Roiland Longreads Feb 2017 15min Permalink
A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.
Brooke Jarvis GQ Feb 2017 15min Permalink
Suspecting he had CTE and that it would eventually kill him, a former high school football player kept a diary of what was has happening to his brain.
Reid Forgrave GQ Jan 2017 30min Permalink
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
Christopher Solomon Outside Jan 2017 25min Permalink
ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jan 2017 25min Permalink
Silicon Valley’s biohacking craze has turned its sights on small doses of LSD for the workplace.
A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 30min Permalink
On chemo.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Dec 2016 20min Permalink
As business declines amidst an opioid epidemic in America, Purdue Pharma’s owners the Sackler family are pursuing a new strategy: putting OxyContin in medicine cabinets around the world.
Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, Scott Glover LA Times Dec 2016 15min Permalink
Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Dec 2016 15min Permalink
An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.
Rosalind Adams Buzzfeed Dec 2016 40min Permalink
A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.
Alex Ronan New York Dec 2016 10min Permalink
When you quite literally have no health insurance options.
Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.
Patrick Strudwick Buzzfeed Dec 2016 20min Permalink
On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.
Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Dec 2016 Permalink
Will Lacey was just a baby when doctors diagnosed a rare form of cancer and told his family there was only one end. Nobody then could imagine the journey ahead, from hospital rooms to board rooms, research labs to government offices, a furious race between hope and death.
Billy Baker Boston Globe Dec 2016 50min Permalink
Flint residents mold their lives around a perpetual water crisis and endless unanswerable questions.
Steve Friess Undark Magazine Nov 2016 Permalink
A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.
Madeline Ostrander Seattle Met Nov 2016 15min Permalink
The doctor who worked on both Kennedy and Oswald tells his story.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2008 15min Permalink