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Nobody Has My Condition But Me The New Yorker

WEBBy Beverly Gage. January 23, 2023. Illustration by Hokyoung Kim. In early 2021, Dr. Michael Ombrello, an investigator at the National Institutes of …

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Peter Attia’s Quest to Live Long and Prosper The New Yorker

WEBIn a series of slick videos, Attia—in the hybrid persona of doctor, teacher, and coach—sits in a leather chair and talks about anticipating and averting diseases. Soft …

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The Truth Behind the Slouching Epidemic The New Yorker

WEBBefore long, there was a societal investment in the betterment of health through the improvement of posture. Among the most significant popularizers of posture …

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Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness

WEBSince leaving the N.I.M.H., in 2015, Insel has worked at a string of digital-mental-health companies. The treatment of mental …

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New York’s Shadow Transit The New Yorker

WEBNew York’s Shadow Transit. Text and map by Aaron Reiss Videos by Nate Lavey and Aaron Reiss. New York’s unofficial shuttles, called “dollar vans” in some …

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Reinventing the E.R. for America’s Mental-Health Crisis

WEBIn May, I travelled to a suburb of Minneapolis in search of a different approach to mental-health crises. Around 8 A.M., Mitlyng, who has shoulder-length …

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Is Health Care a Right

WEBIn his analysis, basic rights include physical security, water, shelter, and health care. Meeting these basics is, he maintained, among government’s highest …

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Will a Full-Body MRI Scan Help You or Hurt You

WEBDavenport guesses that the average person would benefit from a full-body MRI less than 0.1 per cent of the time—whereas “you have something happen to you …

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How Medicare Was Made The New Yorker

WEBStill, many Democrats remained convinced that the health-care system left too many Americans without access to affordable care. In 1957, Congressman Aime …

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The Death of Hahnemann Hospital The New Yorker

WEBMay 31, 2021. “Hahnemann took care of the people that no one else wanted,” a doctor said. Illustration by Katherine Lam. Lia Logio arrived at Hahnemann University Hospital, in …

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An Account of Electricity and the Body, Reviewed The New Yorker

WEBThe amperage needed to kill a person is surprisingly small. A current of as little as 0.01 amps can disrupt the electrical signals flowing from our nerves to the …

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Exercise Is Good for You. The Exercise Industry May Not Be

WEBOn this much we should agree at the outset: exercise is good for you. Virtually all medical professionals would sign off on that proposition, and so would most …

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A Year That Changed How Athletes Think About Mental Health

WEBLouisa Thomas writes about how mental health was prioritized in sports this year, after athletes such as Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, Calvin Ridley, Lane Johnson, …

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A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight

WEBPresident Obama in the Oval Office as a vote on the Affordable Care Act approached. Proposals for some sort of universal health care in the U.S. stretched back …

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Pandemics and the Shape of Human History The New Yorker

WEBCholera is caused by a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, and for most of human history it was restricted to the Ganges Delta. Then, in the eighteen …

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Costa Ricans Live Longer Than We Do. What’s the Secret

WEBFor people between fifteen and sixty years of age, the mortality rate in Costa Rica is 8.7 per cent, versus 11.2 per cent in the U.S.—a thirty-per-cent difference. But …

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Trump’s Illness and the History of Presidential Health

WEBPhotograph by Oliver Contreras / Bloomberg / Getty. On Monday evening, President Trump left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was being …

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The Therapeutic Power of Gardening The New Yorker

WEBBy Rebecca Mead. August 17, 2020. In bleak times, a garden’s cyclical replenishment promises some kind of future. Photo illustration by Alma Haser for The New Yorker. In …

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The Defiance of Salman Rushdie The New Yorker

WEBWhen Salman Rushdie turned seventy-five, last summer, he had every reason to believe that he had outlasted the threat of assassination. A long time ago, on …

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Will This Year’s Census Be the Last

WEBThe 1940 census was the last U.S. census to ask about the citizenship of “everyone foreign born.”. Most of the people on Ross’s street who had been born in …

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Science Has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs

WEBThis week, a team of researchers at Harvard published the largest and most definitive study of the subject to date, and the findings are compelling. “Men who wore …

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America’s Last Ban on Sunday Shopping The New Yorker

WEBBlue laws forbidding Sunday work have been on the books in the U.S. since 1650, and in New Jersey since 1693. At their peak in the early nineteen-sixties, general …

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The Dumbphone Boom Is Real The New Yorker

WEBApril 10, 2024. Photograph by Scott Rossi. Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if …

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The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher The New Yorker

WEB“The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark,” James Salter wrote in his 1975 novel, “Light Years.” An encounter with a single “slender” …

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The Food Issue, a Special Digital Edition The New Yorker

WEBThe Food Issue A Special Digital Edition New articles, cartoons, photography, and more will publish each day between April 22nd and 28th.

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Biden Is the Most Pro-Labor President Since F.D.R. Will It Matter in

WEBBiden appointed Abruzzo in 2021, after firing Peter Robb, a Trump official who earned the wrath of many unions for seeming to favor employers over workers. Robb …

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Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial

WEBOn the Political Scene podcast: A back-room deal between the former President, his then lawyer, and the C.E.O. of American Media plays a central role in the …

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Trump on Trial: The Defense Rests The New Yorker

WEBIn 2020, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The Daily Cartoon, Shouts, and other funny stuff from our Dept. of Hoopla. Barry Blitt pokes fun at the …

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The Supreme Court Asks What Enron Has to Do with January …

WEBApril 17, 2024. Supporters of January 6th defendants stand and sing outside of the Supreme Court, on April 16th, in Washington, D.C. Photograph by Kent Nishimura / …

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