Articles Tagged with #health
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Our Culture War
The Messenger
From “Truth Trucks” to viral videos, Operation Rescue head Troy Newman’s word is his sword.
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Video
After the Singularity, Health Care Only Gets Worse
Plastic people acting like real people is a favorite of ours. As we can see here, Elon Musk has every reason to be worried about the future.
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Personal Essays
Life Before Death
If you had to choose between the life of a loved one or the survival of a dozen other people, would you be capable of a rational decision?
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Humans in New York
Honeymoon Sandy
A Manhattan wedding, a cancer scan, and the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
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The Medicine Cabinet
The Loss
To understand everything wrong about health care in America today, look to a horrifying trend in amputation.
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Video
The Rehabilitation of Sleep
The next time you have insomnia, remember it could be worse. You could be a time-lapsed painting version of yourself.
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Dimensions in Medicine
Anything but Nothing
After a lifetime of mental illness, one woman opts to try electroconvulsive therapy. She discusses her decision with her sister.
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At the Movies
This Was No Accident
Forty years after Jaws, why the very first blockbuster should be considered art—and how it helped one man to survive.
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Law & Order
Hit Job
An unusual DEA raid on one of LA’s most reputable medical marijuana dispensaries reveals the bewildering conflict between state and federal drug laws.
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Dispatches
My Time of Not Dying
Call it Kreider’s Law: You can’t be grateful to be alive your entire life. Especially when there’s an arms race going on inside your head.
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New York, New York
New York Fashion Week at My House
A visit to the New York studio/living room of a family’s style director who has a week’s worth of laundry ahead of her.
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Breaking the News Cycle
Kiss From a Mall Cop
Your party-conversation brief on the most important stories that no one’s talking about anymore—the plight of the Segway, internet child exchanges, Ebola, the current fortunes of Seal, and more.