Katherine Ellen Foley

For patients paralyzed by a spinal cord injury, there’s one impossible roadblock to full recovery.

Elizabeth Holmes got her own unwelcome Election Day surprise.

Marine iguana vs. racer snake. It’s an animal kingdom matchup reminiscent of the 1985 Marvel Universe feud between Captain America and the Serpent Society. And it’s the perfect inspiration for anyone trying to get through the final stretch of a harrowing journey.

The 2016 US presidential election has dragged on for an almost sickeningly long time. The toxicity between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has gotten to the point where no one wants to know anything more about either of them.

Even if you remove yourself from the scene of the crime, you can’t always take the crime scene out of you.

It’s not uncommon for Andrew Epstein to spend sleepless nights replaying scenes from his day and wondering what more he could have done for his patients. Often, the answer is nothing—but that still doesn’t help his insomnia.

Although air pollution is bad for everyone, children who breathe in toxic air are at particular risk to suffer lifelong health consequences likes like heart disease, asthma, and lung cancer as a result.

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It takes two to tango, but the burden of birth control falls largely on women.

Jamie Hiscock of East Sussex, England has a knack for spotting incredibly preserved remnants of life.

“I’ve got gay cancer. I’m gonna die, and so are you.”

The death of the pop superstar Prince, attributed to an overdose of a painkiller 50 times stronger than the street drug heroin, brought the opioid epidemic in America into the spotlight. Unfortunately, it’s not a new phenomenon: The number of Americans dying from opioid overdoses—either by abusing prescription painkillers or heroin—has increased dramatically in recent years.

The path to humanity as we know it was long.

The reason for the US opioid epidemic in the US, most public health experts believe, has everything to do with the nature of the drugs themselves.

Facing the facts is not always comfortable. Which is why sometimes, we choose to ignore them for as long as possible. When presented with enough evidence to the contrary, though, most of us own up to our denial.

Another case for condom use.

The pain can cause you to vomit or temporarily lose your vision, and usually there’s not much you can do except wait it out.

Rape culture is in the spotlight after a video surfaced showing US presidential candidate Donald Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women in 2005. He dismissed it as harmless “locker room talk,” but many have argued that such talk is harmful, not just to women, but also to men. (Several women have also come forward saying that he has actually assaulted them.)

This year’s US presidential election is exceptional in many ways, including, apparently, the anxiety it’s causing American voters.

Pregnancy can be a stressful time for many women, but particularly for women that have to manage their own illnesses while caring for their unborn baby. Things that are relatively safe for a prospective mother may have huge consequences for their fetuses, like alcohol, Tylenol, and even certain viral infections.

If you’re following major league baseball this season, you’re watching a game that has gotten more powerful recently.

It’s one of the most basic rituals of hygiene.

I start each morning with a workout to energize myself for the day. Today was no different. With my blood pumping, I played Beyoncé’s “Formation” and thought to myself, women are just really the best. 

Globally, dams dominate the world’s clean energy production and divert water essential for irrigation. By some estimates, there are over 3,700 dams (paywall) currently in construction that will likely alter the flow of over 20% of the world’s rivers. And the projects are expensive: estimates from the World Commission on Dams suggest that building each large dam costs anywhere from $6 billion (pdf, p. 39) to $37 billion—the price tag of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China.