The Checkup

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America?

This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was

This week I want to look at where we are with psychedelics, the mind-altering substances that have somehow made the

There’s a measles outbreak happening close to where I live. Since the start of this year, 34 cases have been

Americans have a new set of diet guidelines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken an old-fashioned food pyramid, turned it

This week I want to tell you about an experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies. Specifically, it’s helping

For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress of a group of individuals who believe death is

This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a

In today's interconnected world, learning a second language has become more important than ever. It is not only a valuable