In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week's Reporter's Notebook. SCOTT ...

Fifty years ago, Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (October, 1974) Oxford University Press has republished the philosophical paper of that title in book form with an ...

The term rare disease is, in a sense, a misnomer. If all of the people with rare diseases worldwide inhabited their own country, it would be the third-largest by population, after China and India.

The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of addiction. “How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the ...

Weight loss with Ozempic has garnered enormous buzz on social media. Even though it’s a treatment for Type 2 diabetes, many people are using the medication off-label to shed pounds — a famous side ...

When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which ...

Recovery from rotator cuff surgery can take up to 6 months and involve physical therapy to help restore strength and range of motion in the shoulder. Rotator cuff surgery is an orthopedic procedure to ...

From Married at First Sight to Indian Matchmaking, arranged marriages have been reality TV fodder for years. But, as is true of many a reality TV relationship, arranged or not, what we see onscreen ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...