Modern Medicine
To Salvage or Sever: What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough?
Doctors have gotten so good at salvaging limbs that patients are left with a tougher choice between amputation and keeping a leg that doesn't work well.
Health Tech's 'Vitruvian Man'
Health and fitness apps have created a new physical ideal based on averages and aggregates.
Men Have Breasts Too: My Dad's Pink-Hued Fight with Breast Cancer
If we, as a society, are beginning to accept a more fluid definition of gender, then wouldn’t it be logical for modern medicine to follow suit?
Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions of Lives
The World Health Organization has called for the global use of single-use syringes by 2020.
Is DIY Brain Shocking the Future of Therapy?
I bought a brain-zapping device from a person on Reddit for a couple bucks. Would strapping batteries to my head hurt me?
HIV Under Castro
A look at the country’s highly successful and ethically complicated relationship with the virus.
Psychiatry's Most Promising New Treatment Is a Pacemaker For the Brain
And scientists have the lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy to thank.
Meet MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language That Predicted Big Data
In 1966 a pair of programmers saw the data future.