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Baigal Byamba/Flickr Doctors With Borders: How the U.S. Shuts Out Foreign Physicians
MDs trained overseas must go through an often prohibitively difficult, time-consuming process.
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essygie/Flickr What Doctors Don't Know About LGBT Health
A look at new guidelines meant to improve how medical schools teach students about sexual orientation and gender identity
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401(K) 2012/Flickr Do You Know the Basics of Health Insurance?
A vocabulary quiz
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia
The town of Hogeway, outside Amsterdam, is a Truman Show-style nursing home.
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Kaiser Family Foundation Insurance, as Explained by Cartoons
More than 40 percent of uninsured Americans still don’t know basic terminology like "deductible." These little guys break it down.
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Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons How the Poor Get Blamed for Disease
In the 1960s, health authorities capitalized on middle-class fears of urban decay to promote vaccination, redefining measles and polio as illnesses linked to poverty.
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Whatever Happened to Pharmaceutical Swag?
Goodbye, Viagra tchotchkes, hello digital screens.
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fedewild/Flickr Where Age Equals Happiness
In the U.S., well-being tends to be highest in a person's earliest and latest years. But elsewhere, new research shows, quality of life follows a very different pattern.
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Andre Klopper/Shutterstock What Quarantine Feels Like
The experience of needing medical care while endangering the ones who give it
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ienjoysushi/Flickr The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About
Studies have shown that improved access to birth control can be a valuable tool in slowing global warming, but many politicians are afraid to broach the subject.
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Reuters Going Back to Liberia
While many Liberians are attempting to flee their Ebola-stricken home country, one—a doctor currently training in the U.S.—is preparing to head straight back into the outbreak's Ground Zero.
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Larysa Lay/Shutterstock/The Atlantic Africa's Top Health Challenge: Cardiovascular Disease
High blood pressure affects nearly one in two Africans over the age of 25.
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Lauren Giordano/Atlantic The New Heroin Epidemic
Ten years ago, prescription painkiller dependence swept rural America. As the government cracked down on doctors and drug companies, people went searching for a cheaper, more accessible high. Now, many areas are struggling with an unprecedented heroin crisis.
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Elizabeth Whitman Invincible Bacteria in the Middle East
Doctors in Jordan, the region's leading destination for medical tourism, say antibiotic-resistant infections are at an all-time high.
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Dan Grogan/Flickr Profiting From Ebola Fear
As the outbreak goes on, companies are capitalizing on public concern by peddling fraudulent treatments.
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Jim Bourg/Reuters Why Outbreaks Breed Hysteria
What a 2009 psychology study on the swine flu pandemic can teach us about today's Ebola-induced panic
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Jaren Jai Wicklund/Shutterstock The Mysterious Polio-Like Disease Affecting American Kids
Doctors are stumped about the condition's origins—and its treatment.
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Pete Birkinshaw/Flickr Watching Friends Recover From Addiction on Facebook
Social media can be a support system for people struggling to give up heroin—and a window into what the drug has cost them.
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Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr Even Before Ebola, Hospitals Struggled With Infection Control
Healthcare workers have been under increased scrutiny since the outbreak began, but CDC records from the past few years show that many hospitals were already behind where they needed to be.
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m.a.r.c./Flickr What If America Had Canada's Healthcare System?
It would not be a socialist paradise. At least, not entirely.
