Jerome Groopman

Understanding Diabetes—and Paying for It

Advances in our knowledge of the causes of diabetes, and in our ability to treat the disease, have long been hampered by racial prejudice and exorbitant drug prices.

Insulin—the Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold

by Kersten T. Hall

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease

by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

October 6, 2022 issue

What Does the Microbiome Do?

In Gut Feelings, Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty remind us that despite exaggerated claims from marketers, few applications of microbiome manipulation have been proven effective by clinical studies.

Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health

by Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty

October 21, 2021 issue

An ACT UP activist being arrested during an AIDS demonstration outside the headquarters of the American Medical Association, Chicago, April 1990

Lessons from the Worst Years of AIDS

Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis

by Ross A. Slotten

September 24, 2020 issue

Medicine in the Gray Zone

May 9, 2019 issue

Killer T cells—part of the body’s immune system—surrounding a cancer cell

The Body Strikes Back

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

by Matt Richtel

The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health

by Daniel M. Davis

March 21, 2019 issue

A patient’s family feeling the beat of an artificial heart after surgery at Humana Hospital-Audubon, Louisville, Kentucky, 1984

The Elusive Artificial Heart

Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart

by Mimi Swartz

Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology

by Shelley McKellar

November 22, 2018 issue

Letter

Mimi Swartz

Medicine in the Gray Zone

May 9, 2019 issue

Penicillium chrysogenum (also known as Penicillium notatum), the mold that produces the antibiotic penicillin

The Bugs Are Winning

‘Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria’ by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill

Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria

by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill

June 28, 2018 issue

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Study for Thermaie Antoniniane, 1899

Lend Me Your Ear

On the value of cochlear implants

February 8, 2018 issue

The Abbé de l’Épée, who founded a school for the deaf in Paris in 1755 and was the first to recognize that they could be taught with sign language

The Sounds of Silence

The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices

by Gerald Shea

December 7, 2017 issue

Putting Profits Ahead of Patients

Health care in the US is enormously costly, often in ways that are baffling not only to patients but to doctors themselves.

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

by Geoffrey C. Kabat

July 13, 2017 issue

Sick But Not Sick

‘Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness’ by Suzanne O’Sullivan

Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness

by Suzanne O’Sullivan

February 9, 2017 issue

Cancer: A Time for Skeptics

‘The Death of Cancer’ by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

The Death of Cancer

by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

March 10, 2016 issue

Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975

A Doctor’s Body Language

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

by Gavin Francis

November 5, 2015 issue

The Victory of Oliver Sacks

His work inspires the next generation to think and create

On the Move: A Life

by Oliver Sacks

May 21, 2015 issue

Peter Paul Rubens: Achilles Dipped into the River Styx, circa 1630–1635

Vaccinate or Not?

The natural world of unopposed pathogens is full of danger

On Immunity: An Inoculation

by Eula Biss

Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

by Paul A. Offit, M.D.

March 5, 2015 issue

Terrence Holt, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2009

When Doctors Admit They Went Wrong

Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories

by Terrence Holt

November 6, 2014 issue

What Causes Alzheimer’s?: An Exchange

July 10, 2014 issue

Roy Lichtenstein: The Melody Haunts My Reverie, 1965

How Memory Speaks

When we reflect on the manifold manifestations of memory, the mundane becomes marvelous.

I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia

by Su Meck, with Daniel de Visé

Memory: From Mind to Molecules

by Larry R. Squire and Eric R. Kandel

Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions—A New Biological Principle of Disease

by Stanley B. Prusiner, MD

The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

by Margaret Lock

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

by David Stuart MacLean

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May 22, 2014 issue

Exchange

Margaret Lock

What Causes Alzheimer’s?: An Exchange

July 10, 2014 issue

Pot and the Myth of Shen Nung

March 20, 2014 issue

Medical marijuana patient Kevin Brown at the Apothecarium, a medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, December 2011

Marijuana: The High and the Low

A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition

by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian

February 20, 2014 issue

Letter

Erich Goode

Pot and the Myth of Shen Nung

March 20, 2014 issue