The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper - Bloomberg

Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.

How SoulCycle lost its soul

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

The Secret to Ultimate Fitness? Thru-Hiking.

The secret to ultimate fitness isn't all that complicated—just spend a month outside, hiking eight hours per day. Kyle Boelte breaks down how his body evolved into an efficient, fat-burning, testosterone-fueled machine over 29 days on the Colorado Trail.

The Planks You Should Be Doing (But Probably Aren't)

As one-minute planks gave way to three-minute planks, and three-minute planks evolved into ten-minute planks, marathon plank-holding has become a calling card of sorts. " Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"…

The Minimalist’s Strength Workout

Five exercises that will guarantee you have the strength to adventure all weekend, well into your eighties.

Freestanding Handstand Push-Up Tutorial - YouTube

Hey guys, after working for 3 months on this I can finally release it! I tried to make this tutorial as detailed as possible and keep it entertaining at the same time! I hope I've succeeded at doing this and wish everyone a lot of luck with their journey. Please thumbs up…

Chisel Your Core With This Glute And Hamstring Workout

If you want shredded abs, you can't overlook your hips and glutes

Incorporate Strength Exercises

You don't need a gym membership to be ready for race season

Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator | KFF

The Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator, updated with 2024 premium data, provides estimates of health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own in health insurance exchanges (or “Marketplaces”) created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

A curated list of open source healthcare software, tools and resources

Curated list of awesome open source healthcare software, libraries, tools and resources. - kakoni/awesome-healthcare

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Types of Knee Replacement Options

Learn about the different surgical options for knee replacement, approaches, and recovery periods to help you make an informed decision.

‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach

Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.

Get Ripped with This No-Equipment 6-Move Workout

Use tempo and isometrics to improve your bodyweight routine

How viruses evolve

Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like Covid-19?

A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads

Adam Kucharski wrote The Rules of Contagion before Covid-19. He talks about misinformation, bank failures, and coming up with hypotheses during a crisis.

What we can learn from 'untranslatable' illnesses

From an enigmatic rage disorder to a sickness of overthinking, there are some mental illnesses you only get in certain cultures. Why? And what can they teach us?

How Treadmill Running Differs from Running Outside

Yes, the physiology and biomechanics of treadmill running are a little different. But how you feel about it is probably more important.

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From Depression to Dementia, Inflammation Is Medicine’s New Frontier

The barrier between mind and body appears to be crumbling. Clinical practice and public perception need to catch up.

The Amish Health Care System

I. Amish people spend only a fifth as much as you do on health care, and their health is fine. What can we learn from them? A reminder: the Amish are a German religious sect who immigrated to colon…

How to Quit Using a Barbell Pad for Squats

At most gyms, there’s a cylindrical pad on the floor somewhere near the squat rack. (If it’s not there, check the Smith machine.) When I first started squatting, I needed that pad on the bar—or thought I did. How else would I protect my bony neck? But the truth is, you don’t…

How I completely transformed my body in one year.

And if I can do it, you definitely can.

How To Deadlift: The Complete Guide to Perfect Form

The deadlift is the most satisfying of barbell lifts. Here's your complete, easy to understand guide to how to deadlift perfectly. Everytime.

How to Jump Rope Like a Boxer

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in January 2019. When you think about boxers’ workouts —…

Biomedical Data Science Textbook Available

By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science, to help healthcare professionals understand the topic and to work … Continue reading →

Singular science

“N of 1” studies aim to answer medical questions one person at a time

How to Get a Stronger Support Grip for Deadlifts and Hangs

When you first start doing deadlifts, you’re probably thinking about how hard they are for your back, your butt, your legs. But once the motion is sec

The Activation Drill You Need to Try Before Upper Body Workouts

You won't be able to use much weight at all, but you'll still feel like Superman.

This Split Squat Hellset Blasts Every Single Leg Muscle In Minutes

Blend three kinds of Bulgarian split squats into one monstrous set for glute, quad, and hamstring gains.

On Creating A Health Care Website Used In 190 Countries

Hi! My name is Gerald Diaz. I’m a physician and co-founder of GrepMed.com. GrepMed is an image-based medical reference platform that leverages images as an alternative to traditional text-based medical resources. We’re trying to make it easier for doctors and other clinicians to…

The Polio Dilemma

In 1988 there were 350,000 cases of polio worldwide. Polio is a virus that attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis. Effective vaccines had already significantly reduced polio cases in developed nations, but it was still a scourge in poor countries. The World Health…

One Brain, Two Bionic Arms

This man is learning to move two prosthetic arms directly, by thought alone

10 Morning Exercises You Should Do When You Wake Up - Men's Journal

You don't need to bang out a whole morning workout, but morning exercises can increase blood flow and give you the boost you need to start the day.

The Invisible Boy Who Became Mr. Invincible

One man's unlikely journey from servant and prisoner of war to bodybuilding champion—with an epic, trans-continental love story along the way.

A Doctor’s Diary: The Overnight Shift in the E.R. (Published 2019)

In the typical emergency room, demand far outpaces the care that workers can provide. Can the E.R. be fixed?

Imaging technique spots colorectal tumors with 100% accuracy

A new method that provides accurate, real-time, computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer identified tumors with 100% accuracy in a new pilot study.

The Startling Secret of an Invincible Virus

A phage that resists all forms of the antiviral defense known as CRISPR has an unusual means of survival.

The Zen of Weight Lifting

Chop wood, carry water and other lessons that apply far beyond the gym.

The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America - The Washi

If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is increasingly to have a doctor on screen or no doctor at all. These physicians…

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness.

Measuring surgical quality

Not all surgeons are equally skilled with a scalpel. Doctors are developing new ways to test — and improve — operating room performance.

»I have no desire to open up this man’s skull. I do it because I have to«

Forensic scientists, the police and crime scene investigators master horror with a steady hand. This article gives a rare insight into the post-mortem examination of a homicide.

Shackleton’s Medical Kit

‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’

A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart.

Three decades ago, a young man murdered his girlfriend and killed himself. What happened next to his heart was extraordinary.

A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation | The MIT Press Reader

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

Paul Clarke Wants to Live

When a promising student left a neighborhood full of heroin for the University of Pennsylvania, it should have been a moving story. But what does an at-risk student actually need to thrive — or even just to survive?

Column One: 'Blink once if you can hear me’ — a brain-injured man's remarkable awakening

Omar Salgado defied the odds in Room 20. But his is not a story about a miracle — it’s a story about medicine’s inability to accurately diagnose consciousness.

How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World

A massive collection of dog tumor samples is revealing the secrets of a contagious, parasite-like cancer that could help explain human cancers too.

He'd been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?

Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.