What we can learn from the Harlem Children's Zone.

Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet.

In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the majority of Americans are opposed to President Obama's health-care reform plan—until they learn the details. Plus, a look at very unhappy mood of the electorate.

American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter.

Ray Gosling's admission was shocking but not unusual: for years, gay men with AIDS have struggled with the legality, ethics, and reality of assisted suicide.

What a difference culture makes.

Could medical information stored on wallet-size cards cure the country's health-care woes?

In 1951, doctors removed Henrietta Lacks's cells without her consent. More than half a century later, companies have made millions from her cell culture, while few of Lacks's descendants can even afford insurance.

Physicists create conditions not seen since the big bang.

The worst part of his deplorablePlayboyinterview? He's just saying what others are thinking.

Why racial disparities in health care persist.

How science is unraveling the differences between women and men.

New research sheds light on the motivations of people who kill their families and suggests their numbers may be on the rise.

Despite Vancouver's best efforts, the carbon footprint for the Winter Games could be massive.

A new study finds serious problems with stem cells produced from adult cells.

Unlike most spiritual memoirs, Stephanie Saldaña's is very readable. All the more surprising she hasn't yet hit 30.

Food fraud has been around almost as long as food itself. Finally, some experts are starting to get tough.

Paralyzing the "frown" muscles also inhibits the ability to understand anger and sadness.

Skip Gates talks about Black History Month--and what it means to be black today.

It's time society stopped reinforcing the bad behavior that leads to heart disease—and pursued policies to prevent it.

Could the proposed health-care bill have prevented some of America's biggest public health crises?

Thanks to a disease that lays dormant for up to 30 years, Baby Boomers well past their wild years are starting to suffer the consequences.

Years after my wild-child days, my past caught up with me in the form of a diagnosis of a chronic disease. I could have given up. Instead I chose to embrace the future.

The CDC's vaccination advice for the over-65 set has been misleading.

How to break the cycle of failed New Year's vows.

Does the Web change how we think?

How the media frenzy around a Belgian man misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state came to haunt the doctor who treated him.

Two men. Two different approaches to violence prevention. And one small pool of funding dollars.

And why he may come to regret it.

Considered one of the chefs most responsible for the mainstreaming of vegetarianism in the 1970s and '80s, and a vegetarian herself for 30 years, Katzen began eating meat again a few years ago. "Somehow it got ascribed to me that I don't want people to eat meat," Katzen said. "I've just wanted to supply possibilities that were low on the food chain."

My season's greetings to the biggest news—and newsmakers—of the past year.

In a label-crazy country, why are the ingredients in alcoholic beverages such a mystery?

Some spirit makers boast natural ingredients and nutritional additives in an effort to attract a health-conscious clientele. But can alcohol really be healthy?

Amid all the talk about filibusters, long-term affects, and 'bending cost curves' one thing has gotten obscured: how will you see your coverage change after health-care reform passes?

In the wake of a thwarted terrorist attack on a Northwest flight to Detroit, a renowned psychologist talks about what makes ordinary people do heroic things.

California cuts back cancer screening for low-income women.

Advice for women who pledge to start dating again in 2010.

They call themselves 'preppers.' They are regular people with homes and families. But like the survivalists that came before them, they're preparing for the worst.

A survival expert offers preparation tips for calamities—natural and manmade.

Tis the season ... for the media to go overboard with listicles.

A new study shows that married people aren't necessarily happier than their solo counterparts.

Even with a health-care overhaul, thousands of Americans may pay a fine rather than purchase insurance. Here's why.

One of the Midwest's most prolific sperm donors may hold the key to understanding how genes affect our health.

The case for having your genes sequenced.

And eight other holiday survival strategies.

She was a homecoming queen turned professional model. But after my sister, Suzy, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, people in our hometown of Peoria, Ill., crossed the street when they saw her coming. They thought she was contagious, unclean—a modern-day leper. Betty Ford and Shirley Temple had had much-publicized mastectomies a few years earlier, but a culture of fear and confusion still surrounded the disease. Families struggled to talk about it, and doctors struggled to treat it.

Why is everyone so surprised about Tiger Woods? When it comes down to it, monogamy doesn't always work.

OSU has halted a baboon study, infuriating scientists. Are animal-rights extremists finally getting their way?

Could creating two insurance pools solve the health-care impasse?

It's been nearly a decade since U2 frontman Bono turned the entire continent of Africa into a pet cause, drawing attention to the problems of -developing-world health like never before. By some accounts, that publicity has started to pay off: since 2000, malaria incidence is down 50 percent in some of the hardest-hit regions, and in the past five years, the number of people with access to life-saving HIV medications has increased 10-fold. But while First World philanthropists and rock-star do-gooders were out to conquer AIDS and malaria, they left a far more ancient killer to fester. Tuberculosis has been traced back as far as the Egyptian mummies. It still kills 5,000 people every day—more people than swine flu has killed in the past year. And right now, natural selection and human fallibility are conspiring to make the germ indestructible.