Category: The Checkup

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 […]

Earlier this week, MIT Technology Review published its annual list of Ten Breakthrough Technologies. As always, it features technologies that […]

The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday, […]

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be bidding farewell to 2025. And what a year it has been! Artificial […]

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