Health & Medicine
Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind
Harvard study finds link between loneliness and increased risk of stroke among older adults.
by Jack R. Trapanick
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Expert advice for daily life
by Jonathan Shaw
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
by Max J. Krupnick
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
by Veronique Greenwood
Vikram Patel
He wanted to be a chef, but instead became a leader in global health
by Jonathan Shaw
The Brain-Cancer Link
Growth-stimulating crosstalk between the brain and cancer tumors presents a new target for therapy.
by Daniel Oberhaus
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Post-COVID Learning Losses
Children face potentially permanent setbacks
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Rising Risks with COVID Reinfection
Emerging evidence on severe complications
by Jonathan Shaw