The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us
You carry literal pieces of your mom—and maybe your grandma, and your siblings, and your aunts and uncles.
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Pack Your Memories Into Your Disaster Bag
Survivors of disasters can benefit from preserving meaningful parts of their life.
Pediatricians See an Alarming Number of Noodle-Soup Burns
Kids can get burned by any hot liquid. But one kind stands above the rest.
Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly
Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects.
A Big Misconception About the World’s Greatest Infectious Killer
The dogma that tuberculosis is lying dormant in the bodies of 2 billion people might be wrong.
Are You Sure You Want an Ozempic Pill?
Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create obesity drugs you can swallow. They might not be as great as they sound.
I Spent $85 to Eat Breakfast With Santa
The best way to meet the big man
Nobody Told Me About ‘Mom Feet’
Pregnancy can change your shoe size forever.
We’re Living the Reality of the Pandemic’s Simplest Math
Sick season will be worse from now on.
BMI Won’t Die
The outdated, much-maligned health measure now determines who gets obesity drugs—and who doesn’t.