Why cancer screening should become more like heart disease prevention. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges. Click here to get ...

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The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

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I think aid is important, and while it works in so many places, it is horribly done in others,” Alsanosi Adam tells me. A delegate of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), his organisation presents ...

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For many people, life in and around Chicago means near-constant surveillance in the name of public safety. Meet the city residents engaging with this controversial space.