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In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians called it “the Polish disease.” (Johnson, 12/18)

Medical science has a problem with sexism. Excluding female biology creates public health risks from incomplete data and biased methods. (Wheeler, 12/18)

Nothing prepared Chelsey Gomez to lose relationships with her best friend at work, and even the younger brother she'd doted on, after getting cancer at age 28. She shared her diagnosis with them, and —poof! — they disappeared. They stopped calling, stopped texting. They didn't check in. More than the excruciating bone marrow transplant to treat Hodgkin Lymphoma, or the chemotherapy that nearly killed her, Gomez says what hurt most was confronting the idea that – to these people she loved – she did not matter. (Noguchi, 12/18)

At the last minute, Zoë decided to call off her euthanasia. But how do you start over after you’ve said all of your goodbyes? (Bakker, 12/17)

It comes down to this: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is achingly, yet redemptively, a movie in which a man almost dies by suicide. (Piepenburg, 12/17)

As a small child, Pat Wells just thought she had a bad back. That was what the doctor said when her mother took her to the hospital. A bad back. Her mother would rub it with alcohol to help her go to sleep. They didn’t know that she carried a genetic blueprint for a misshapen molecule; that her hemoglobin proteins, which carried oxygen through her body, were catching on each other, forming unwieldy chains, warping the red blood cells they rode in, blocking her circulation. (Boodman, 12/19)

While they may give us a broad and varied view into expectations (or hopes and dreams), the vast majority of predictions about how healthcare will change in 2025 are likely to be wrong. Here are six things that experts view as unlikely to change in healthcare in 2025, followed by a dash of optimism. (Joseph, 12/17)

From mental health to social connections, the best public health books of 2024 tackle some of the field's most pressing challenges. (12/13)