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A Doctor Puts Telemedicine to the Test During COVID-19

An advocate of virtual exams has a second opinion.

March 25, 2020

What Really Inflamed the Coronavirus Epidemic

Censorship didn’t worsen the deadly virus outbreak. Incompetence did.

February 19, 2020

Are We Flushing Our Resistance to Antibiotics Down the Drain?

Taking account of the drug-resistant germs turning up in rivers and soils.

October 30, 2019

Iron Is the New Cholesterol

Elevated iron is at the center of a web of disease stretching from cancer to diabetes.

December 19, 2018

The Rise of Cancer Immunotherapy

How Jim Allison saved a whole world.

October 24, 2018

A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.

September 12, 2018

Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find

A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance.

May 22, 2018

Does Aging Have a Reset Button?

A Stanford researcher’s new take on stem cells.

January 29, 2018

Ingenious: Jack Gilbert

The professor of surgery explains how health emerges from a healthy microbiome.

July 10, 2017

How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives

An interview with Eric Verdin, CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

June 22, 2017