The Atlantic: Health
- It's Time to Rethink the Calorie
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 12:36 PMMario Anzuoni / Reuters “For me, a calorie is a unit of measurement that’s a real pain in the rear.” Bo Nash is 38. He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he’s a technology director for a textbook publisher.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Countries Where People Are the Most Emotionally Complex
Monday - 01/25/2016 - 10:47 AMSteve Christo Photography / Corbis Think of the last piece of big news you got. How did you feel about it? Happy? Sad? Angry? Worried? Excited? Grateful? A little bit of all of the above?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Doctor Who Kills Doctors
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 03:27 PMMarc Parenteau
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Some People Take Breakups Harder Than Others
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 12:38 PMEric Thayer / Reuters It’s a question that often plagues people after a painful break-up: What went wrong? As they work to figure out the answer, people typically create new relationship stories, analyzing the events leading up to the breakup and using them to build a cohesive narrative.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Patient Who Diagnosed Her Own Genetic Mutation—and an Olympic Athlete's
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 09:02 AMJill Viles / ProPublica Two years ago, I wrote a book called The Sports Gene that examines the intersection of genetics and athleticism. I expected my mother to buy a dozen copies and invite me to her book club and that would be the end of it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'My Little Girl Was Sick'
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 12:48 PMAnother reader contributes a deeply personal and heartbreaking story to our series: I’ve read the different women’s reasons for abortion, and mine is a bit different, so I think it’s important to hear another side: a wanted and planned little girl.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Mysterious Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 10:47 AMRex Lewis-Clack, who is on the autism spectrum, has exceptional musical abilities. Patrick Fallon / Spectrum News “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” Rex Lewis-Clack croons, his head joyfully bobbing in time with the Duke Ellington standard.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Civilian Career for Military Medics
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 01:46 PMAmerican and Afghan soldiers carry an injured U.S. soldier in Logar province, Afghanistan, in December 2011. Umit Bektas / Reuters The U.S. military veteran Dave Manning served two combat deployments in Iraq and was the sole medical provider for more than 100 people on a Navy ship.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Are All Abortions Created Equal?
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 06:47 PMA reader calls the story of the woman who had three abortions “incredibly moving”: She is amazingly resilient and should be commended for sharing with us; we need to hear tales like hers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Quest to Make a Better Mosquito Repellent
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 01:07 PMJames Gathany / Flickr Leslie Vosshall is stalking a mosquito. We’re in a small room that’s full of the little blood-suckers, which are being deliberately bred and raised. Most are safely trapped behind plastic and muslin but one plucky insect has escaped, and we’re stuck on this side of the room’s heavy door until we can find it.
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- The Countries Where People Are the Most Emotionally Complex
Monday - 01/25/2016 - 08:07 AMSteve Christo Photography / Corbis Think of the last piece of big news you got. How did you feel about it? Happy? Sad? Angry? Worried? Excited? Grateful? A little bit of all of the above?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- My Experience With Lymphoma
Saturday - 01/23/2016 - 10:11 AMhxdbzxy / Shutterstock Until the end of 2014 I thought that I was a healthy 66-year-old: normal blood pressure, not overweight, no prescription medications. I worked out at the gym regularly, and had missed hardly a day of work in over 35 years of teaching at Harvard.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Sound That Comes From Nowhere
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 07:37 AMRobert Essel NYC / Corbis / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Melanie West, 63, has had a ringing in her ears as long as she can remember. When she was a kid in the ‘50s and ‘60s, it was a high-pitched sound in both ears that her doctors did not believe existed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Some People Take Breakups Harder Than Others
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 02:47 PMEric Thayer / Reuters It’s a question that often plagues people after a painful break-up: What went wrong? As they work to figure out the answer, people typically create new relationship stories, analyzing the events leading up to the breakup and using them to build a cohesive narrative.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to Know About Zika Virus
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 11:13 AMTen-year-old Elison nurses his 2-month-old brother Jose Wesley, who was born with microcephaly, at their house in Poco Fundo, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dissolvable Brain Sensors Disintegrate Once Their Job is Done
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 07:37 AMJohn Rogers “I just took out a bullet from the back of a guy's head an hour ago,” says Rory Murphy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Low-Fiber Diets Cause Waves of Extinction in the Gut
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 01:15 PMFrancisco Bonilla / Reuters In the decades after World War II, a one-eyed Irish missionary-surgeon named Denis Burkitt moved to Uganda, where he noted that the villagers there ate far more fiber than Westerners did.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Low-Fiber Diets Cause Waves of Extinction in the Gut
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 02:47 PMFrancisco Bonilla / Reuters In the decades after World War II, a one-eyed Irish missionary-surgeon named Denis Burkitt moved to Uganda, where he noted that the villagers there ate far more fiber than Westerners did.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More Kids, Longer Life?
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 01:07 PMJenny Elia Pfeiffer / Corbis Growing a human being inside you for nine months, and then expelling it with a force that can fracture your pelvis can take its toll on the body.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Reclaiming LSD for Psychotherapy
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 12:36 PMA visitor explores the psychedelic Serpentine Summer Pavilion in London. Jim Stephenson / VIEW / Corbis At 6.30 a.m. on Thursday, October 29, 2009, Friederike Meckel Fischer’s doorbell rang. There were 10 policemen outside.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Psychedelics as Therapy
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 09:15 AMWe had a piece last week from Sam Wong about therapists who want to revive the use of psychotropic drugs—LSD, psilocybin, MDMA—for the treatment of mental-health issues. The piece resonated with a lot of readers:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - My Experience With Lymphoma
Saturday - 01/23/2016 - 12:47 PMhxdbzxy / Shutterstock Until the end of 2014 I thought that I was a healthy 66-year-old: normal blood pressure, not overweight, no prescription medications. I worked out at the gym regularly, and had missed hardly a day of work in over 35 years of teaching at Harvard.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- When the Only Ambulance is a Helicopter
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 08:01 AMTimBurgess / Shutterstock Butte is an old mining town tucked in the southwest corner of Montana with a population of about 34,000. Locals enjoy many things you can’t find elsewhere—campgrounds a quick drive from downtown and gorgeous mountain ranges nearby.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Suicide Among the Ceasefire Babies
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 11:36 AMA bonfire burns in the Bogside area of Londonerry, Northern Ireland, in 1989. Dave Caulkin / AP I grew up just off Belfast’s Murder Mile, a stretch so called because of the number of casualties there during the Troubles, the decades-long conflict over the status of Northern Ireland.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'My Little Girl Was Sick'
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 09:56 AMAnother reader contributes a deeply personal and heartbreaking story to our series: I’ve read the different women’s reasons for abortion, and mine is a bit different, so I think it’s important to hear another side: a wanted and planned little girl.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Mysterious Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 10:26 AMRex Lewis-Clack, who is on the autism spectrum, has exceptional musical abilities. Patrick Fallon / Spectrum News “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” Rex Lewis-Clack croons, his head joyfully bobbing in time with the Duke Ellington standard.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Another Ebola Case in Sierra Leone
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 08:38 AMAurelie Marrier d'Unienville / AP Officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, a day after the WHO declared West Africa free of the virus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Are All Abortions Created Equal?
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 04:58 PMA reader calls the story of the woman who had three abortions “incredibly moving”: She is amazingly resilient and should be commended for sharing with us; we need to hear tales like hers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Urban Planning Can Influence Obesity Rates
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 02:55 PMBrian Snyder / Reuters There are so many causes of obesity—poverty, social and emotional factors, lack of sle
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Quest to Make a Better Mosquito Repellent
Tuesday - 01/12/2016 - 12:47 PMJames Gathany / Flickr Leslie Vosshall is stalking a mosquito. We’re in a small room that’s full of the little blood-suckers, which are being deliberately bred and raised. Most are safely trapped behind plastic and muslin but one plucky insect has escaped, and we’re stuck on this side of the room’s heavy door until we can find it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share