health

How does cancer spread through the body?

The power of herd immunity

How butterflies self-medicate

Should you be able to patent a human gene?

How do scars form?

How a wound heals itself

Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

Why some people find exercise harder than others

Will healthcare embrace digital or will we die waiting?

How do germs spread (and why do they make us sick)?

The future of early cancer detection?

How do vitamins work?

A brief history of melancholy

Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge

How to achieve more quality hospital care (with less noise)

Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

One more reason to get a good night's sleep

The coming crisis in antibiotics

Owning the kitchen again

My father, locked in his body but soaring free

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

The simple power of hand-washing

Why do we pass gas?

What did dogs teach humans about diabetes?

What happens when you remove the hippocampus?

The past present and future of the bubonic plague

What causes antibiotic resistance?

What makes us get sick? Look upstream

What happens when you get heat stroke?

Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans

“Am I dying?” The honest answer.

How not to be ignorant about the world

How does your brain respond to pain?

How the heart actually pumps blood

The cancer gene we all have

The science of attraction