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Daniel Aguilar/Reuters The Power in 'Choosing to Be Gay'
It is a big leap from thinking that homosexuality is a deep part of one's sense of self to asserting that particular sexual formations and desires are biologically predetermined.
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Elixer Design Inc./The Atlantic How Americans Got Red Meat Wrong
Early diets in the country weren't as plant-based as you might think.
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David Hodgson/Flickr Making Aging Positive
Many of my older-adult patients wanted to make a difference in the world but, finding no role for themselves, were treated as socially useless. Having created a new stage of life, the next step is to make it meaningful.
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Ted S. Warren/AP Should Doctors Work for Hospitals?
Many physicians feel they are losing control of their profession.
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Mayr/flickr Trying to Rebuild Women's Bodies After Female 'Circumcision'
A small number of surgeons are performing clitoral reconstruction procedures in the United States for victims of female-genital mutilation, offering a chance at physical recovery.
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Shutterstock Having Kids Probably Won't Destroy the Planet
An overpopulated planet is not necessarily doomed. What matters most is how those billions of people choose to live.
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Beacon Press The Doctor Used to Know Best
Inside a physician's 50-year-old journals, from a time when doctors made decisions for patients, not with them
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ksayer/flickr Science Breaks Down Facebook Jokers
How and why people turn to medical issues to elicit electronic laughs
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters Should Paid 'Menstrual Leave' Be a Thing?
Some countries mandate a legal right to leave for women during their periods. Is that reverse sexism or the right thing to do?
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Brendan McDermid/Reuters All the Reasons Women Don't Go to the Doctor, Other Than Money
Low-income women in particular are likely to say that they couldn't get time off work or weren't able to find child care
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AP Stressful Relationships vs. Isolation: The Battle for Our Lives
If a fraught relationship might be significantly shortening your life, are you better off alone?
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NASA A Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate
John Oliver shows a fairer representation of both sides: 97 scientists versus three climate change deniers.
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Mick Tsikas / Reuters But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me?
Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people don't care.
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Stringer Brazil/Reuters As Earth Warms, West Nile Spreads
The virus took the U.S. by surprise. Thanks to climate change, it’s here to stay.
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Why Many Latinos Dread Going to the Doctor
How cultural barriers can be more important than income
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Shutterstock Can Wikipedia Ever Be a Definitive Medical Text?
How to create a credible, accessible, crowd-sourced resource for health information
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Guttmacher Institute Very Good News: Teen Pregnancy and Abortion Hit Record Lows
More 18- and 19-year-old women are having sex, but fewer are getting pregnant.
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Saylor Family/AP How Misunderstanding Disability Leads to Police Violence
Americans with disabilities are victims of violent crimes at nearly three times the rate of their peers.
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Keith Bedford/Reuters Save a Life, Get a New Bellybutton
Why we need more kidney donors, and how to get them
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AP World Health Organization: Polio Is an International Emergency
The spread of the vaccine-preventable poliovirus so far in 2014 has been "extraordinary," the agency warned today.
