Illnesses

A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new light on the inner workings of the brain.

Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention.

The human body is a remarkably effective cooling machine—but it has a limit.

COVID’s winter surge holds a deeper lesson about the perils of interpreting data without a full appreciation of the context.

Amid the emergence from COVID-19, it seems that everyone—following the tradition of Frank Sinatra, E.T., and, presumably, Sneezy—has caught the cold.

The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.

It is painful to reflect on the tens of thousands of lives that might have been saved if a less reality-challenged President had occupied the White House.

The best security system and the most solicitous medical officers in the world could not protect Donald Trump from a danger that he insisted on belittling and ignoring.

Around the world, people who accidentally spread the coronavirus must face both a dangerous illness and an onslaught of online condemnation.

Hervé Guibert wrote about the ravaging of AIDS in controversial, self-exposing, always defiant fiction. A revival of his work places it within the canonical literature of illness.

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.

In the garden, one performs the act of possessing.

The physical effects of the outbreak lie in the future, but the psychic toll is already huge—and wide-ranging.

When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.

I did not want to die, only felt that I would, or should, or must, and I had my pain and my reasons.

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.