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What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?

Meet the mice that are changing the obesity conversation.

November 11, 2013

Blissed-Out Fish on Prozac

Why we can’t get our water supply free of drugs.

November 1, 2013

For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs

Is giving up your biological secrets too bitter a pill?

October 10, 2013

An Unlikely Cure Signals New Hope for Cancer

How “exceptional responders” are revolutionizing treatment for the deadly disease.

August 12, 2013

Their Giant Steps to a Cure

Battling a rare form of muscular dystrophy, a family finds an activist leader, and hope.

July 26, 2013

Mind-Control Helicopters and the Healing Power of Poop

Five unlikely breakthroughs in medical science today.

July 25, 2013

Pandemics Are the Dark Side of Global Mobility

How the 2009 swine flu raced around the world.

July 17, 2013

When Pigs Fly

It’s no fairy tale—factory farms and air travel form a viral expressway to pandemics.

July 17, 2013