When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to...

The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t...

A wild idea recently circulated about the future of aviation: If passengers lose weight via obesity drugs, airlines could potentially...

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On a recent visit to the supermarket, I found myself terribly disturbed by a carton of fruit. There, among the...

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One of my chronically depressed patients recently found a psychoactive drug that works for him after decades of searching. He...

Relatively speaking, 2023 has been the least dramatic year of COVID living to date. It kicked off with the mildest...

At the busy county hospital where I did my medical residency, we cared for patients with every imaginable problem. But...