
Julia Belluz
Freelance contributor
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People with diabetes badly need better technology and cheaper insulin to manage their condition.

Science journalist Ed Yong explains how we went from war to a love affair with bacteria and other microbes.


Trump’s shameful reference to a “400-pound hacker” was the closest we got to an obesity mention.


The benefits of mass breast-cancer screening programs have been overstated.


Symptoms checkers only get it right 51 percent of the time.

Some people pick their hair and eat it. That can lead to dangerous hairballs in rare cases.


Brokaw says his battle with multiple myeloma has “redeeming qualities.”


Autophagy comes from the Greek word for “self-eating.”

I was skeptical of the first lady’s work on childhood obesity — until I looked at her track record.


In a first, researchers measure the agency’s “revolving door.”