A friend of mine is retiring after dreaming about it for years. Yet when he packed up his office, he burst into tears. “I have no idea why,” he told me. “I’ve wanted out forever.” We expect some life transitions to be difficult, like a serious illness or the endContinue Reading
Sarah Redzikowski tilted her head and leaned closer to her phone camera, examining the redness that spread from her cheekbones to her chin. She traced her fingers over her swollen skin and sobbed, placing her face in her hands. “I hate that I do this to myself,” she said softly.Continue Reading
Two new studies suggest that stem-cell treatments may be getting closer to becoming widely available for Parkinson’s patients. pocketlight/iStockphoto/Getty Images pocketlight/iStockphoto/Getty Images Patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease may soon benefit from a powerful treatment option: stem-cell transplants. In a pair of small studies designed primarily to test safety, two teamsContinue Reading
For the past two decades, Kevin Hall, a nutrition and metabolism scientist at the National Institutes of Health, has devoted his career to studying how people’s diets affect their health. He has led some of the world’s most important research on ultraprocessed foods, including one study that demonstrated, for theContinue Reading
With frequent and severe disasters repeatedly underscoring the dangers of climate change, scientists across the country have been working to understand the consequences for our hearts, lungs, brains and more — and how to best mitigate them. The work has relied largely on hundreds of millions of dollars in grantsContinue Reading
Imagine a nail jabbing at a shiny blue balloon. Pop! That’s what rejection can feel like for someone with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, one TikTok creator told his audience: an explosion of emotions. The clip, which has nearly 300,000 likes, is one of thousands of posts about “rejection sensitive dysphoria,”Continue Reading
After three years of contentious negotiations, the member nations of the World Health Organization have agreed on a draft of a “pandemic treaty” designed to help the global community better prevent and respond to health crises. The agreement is aimed at averting the fractious, faltering response to the Covid-19 pandemic,Continue Reading
A two-day meeting of vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went smoothly. Tami Chappell/Getty Images/AFP Tami Chappell/Getty Images/AFP Despite concerns that the administration might meddle with a committee of vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, their first public meeting since President Trump’sContinue Reading
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference autism rates on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Jose Luis Magana/AP Jose Luis Magana/AP Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday declared that autism is a rapidly growing “epidemic” in the U.S. and vowedContinue Reading
I’m not a big weight room guy. In high school, I got called “Bird Legs,” and in college, I picked up the nickname “Stretch.” I tried to bulk up, but every time I tried, say, bench press, it just felt like too much work and not much fun. But asContinue Reading
