Featured Writing

Coercive care: How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations – STAT

I Can Always Feel Like I’m Back Home in Montreal by Tapping My Feet – The New York Times Magazine

Making Sense of the Great Whip Spider Boom – Undark

Sterilization, mysterious pain, and dismissive doctors: Why women turn to reversal surgery — and sometimes to RFK Jr. – STAT

Accidental therapists: For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there – STAT

The Sims Creator’s Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Own Mind Into a Video Game – New York Magazine

Selling Certainty: In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he? – STAT

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic – STAT

Does Luck Exist? Lee John Whittington, a philosopher of luck, didn’t think “unluckiness” was a quality people had. Then he met his wife. – New York Magazine

How a conservative, gun-toting doctor defended abortion access in Appalachia – STAT

The St. John Valley is Maine’s Last French-Speaking Bastion, But For How Long? – DownEast

Legal at one clinic, illegal at another: How abortion bans make gestational age even less precise – STAT

Their baby died during his nap. Then medical bureaucrats deepened the parents’ anguish – STAT

In the dark of night, a hunt for a deadly bug in the name of science – STAT