Only Human

We have this idea of what therapy is supposed to look like. There’s a couch. An objective therapist sitting across the r... Read more

If you’ve ever worried about catching a cold from a co-worker who came into work when he (or she) should’ve taken a sick... Read more

When North Carolina passed HB2 last year — a controversial law also known as the "bathroom bill" — it seemed to many tha... Read more

A granddaughter sets out to find the roots of her grandmother’s obsession with Vicks Vaporub. The little blue jar ends u... Read more

Doctors listen to stories from patients all the time. This week, we give them the mic to hear about the patients who lef... Read more

Calories, the longstanding building blocks of a diet, can be sneaky. It turns out that measuring what we eat through the... Read more

When Rose was growing up, she knew something wasn't quite right about how she heard the world. But every time she got a ... Read more

We all know the cost of healthcare is staggering in this country — but is there anything you can do about it? Dr. Zeke E... Read more

The new “female Viagra” has been underwhelming. But researcher Nicole Prause is on a mission to find out what it takes f... Read more

Who knew counting a crowd would be so… political? If the election felt contentious, the inauguration seemed to make the ... Read more

Bishop Gwendolyn Phillips Coates is on a mission. She’s a preacher in a small church in South L.A., and she’s made it he... Read more

As a kid, Marvin Miller dreamed of starting an all sign language town. A place where deaf would be the norm and everyone... Read more

Earlier this year, North Carolina passed HB2, the so-called "bathroom bill." But the state is also home to one of the fe... Read more

Prenatal screening keeps getting more precise, more accessible, and less stressful -- at least in terms of the basic pro... Read more

Poet Max Ritvo is back on our show this week, for what he’s calling his “farewell tour".The 25-year-old has spent years ... Read more

Prodigy and Havoc begin laying down rhymes together in high school. When their first album flops, they come up with a ne... Read more

Does a more humane hospital equal a safer one? That’s a question Johns Hopkins is grappling with — and Dr. Peter Pronovo... Read more

In the early 1900s, an eccentric fitness guru named Bernarr Macfadden discovered what he believed was a treatment for ev... Read more

Peter Grinspoon spent years addicted to painkillers – as a successful physician who also prescribed them. He kept his ad... Read more

Ever since Susannah Ludwig was born without an esophagus, her life has been a series of medical experiments. In this epi... Read more