The Checkup

Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it?

This week I’ve been thinking about babies. Healthy ones. Perfect ones. As you may have read last week, my colleague

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an

Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind the

It has started to get really wintry here in London over the last few days. The mornings are frosty, the

Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants

This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the season of the sniffles. As the weather turns, we’re all

How are you feeling? I’m genuinely interested in the well-being of all my treasured Checkup readers, of course. But this

This week we had some terrifying news from the World Health Organization: Antibiotics are failing us. A growing number of

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