Health & Medicine
The Goodness of Being Together
Why social interactions are as vital as food and water
by Erin O'Donnell
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
Hundreds of U.S. hospitals are owned by private equity firms—does monetizing medicine affect the quality of care?
by Colleen Walsh
Diversifying Diet
A little-known diet improves cardiovascular health through several distinct mechanisms.
by Nina Pasquini
Reparations as Public Health
A Harvard forum on the racial health gap
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.
by Jonathan Shaw
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Expert advice for daily life
by Jonathan Shaw
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
by Max J. Krupnick
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
by Veronique Greenwood
Vikram Patel
He wanted to be a chef, but instead became a leader in global health
by Jonathan Shaw