Cover Story · Dentistry
The Quiet Revolution Inside Your Mouth
Digital scanners, biocompatible ceramics, and a slower kind of prevention are rewriting what a routine visit to the dentist can mean.
The Dispatch
Gastroenterology
The Gut Is Not a Metaphor
Beyond the microbiome hype, the surprisingly practical science of eating for a difficult stomach.
Cardiology
Listening to the Heart, Again
Wearables promised to democratize cardiology. The stethoscope, quietly, is still winning.
Dermatology
The Skin You Will Have at Sixty
Sunscreen, retinoids, and honest expectations: a dermatologist's field guide to aging on your own terms.
Vascular Medicine
The Long Afternoon of Varicose Veins
A century-old procedure, refined by ultrasound, and why patients keep coming back for it.
Dermatology
A Field Guide to the Suspicious Mole
The ABCDEs are only the beginning. When to worry, when to wait, and what a good screening actually looks like.
Essays
On Waiting Rooms
Notes from a year spent, mostly, in chairs — and what our waiting says about the medicine we ask for.