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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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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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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. …

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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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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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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 neighborhoods, …

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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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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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Should the Government Impose a National Vaccination Mandate

WEBOn Monday, the F.D.A. did grant full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people sixteen and older, and a decision on the Moderna …

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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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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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Pandemics and the Shape of Human History The New Yorker

WEBOutbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations, prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps, Elizabeth Kolbert writes.

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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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Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young …

WEBIt’s not another moral panic, the social psychologist says: the evidence clearly implicates social-media apps for a decline in mental health. Plus, Judi Dench on …

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Dhruv Khullar Latest Articles The New Yorker

WEBDhruv Khullar is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He is also a practicing physician and an …

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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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Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone

WEBJonathan Haidt is a sixty-year-old social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat to mental well-being. His new book, “The Anxious …

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Finding Medicine’s Hot Spots The New Yorker

WEBThe Hot Spotters. In Camden, New Jersey, one per cent of patients account for a third of the city’s medical costs. Photograph by Phillip Toledano. If Camden, New …

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How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War

WEBFor more than two decades, Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei has worked at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, the largest mental-health organization in the …

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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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Science Has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs

WEBBy the nineteen-nineties, researchers began to fret about underwear. A study from 1990 followed two groups of men for several months: one group wore tight …

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The Defiance of Salman Rushdie The New Yorker

WEBPhotograph by Richard Burbridge for The New Yorker. When Salman Rushdie turned seventy-five, last summer, he had every reason to believe that he had …

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East Palestine, After the Crash The New Yorker

WEBIn late January, Jami Wallace and her husband, Chris, took a road trip to Washington, D.C., on business. These days, the couple has so little time alone that they …

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Joseph Stiglitz and the Meaning of Freedom The New Yorker

WEBDuring our sit-down interview, Stiglitz told me that, for a long time, he had cavilled at the negative conception of freedom used by conservative economists and …

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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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