A surge in quartz countertop fabrication has triggered a growing epidemic of silicosis — an incurable lung disease — among ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

Your time is up, you little shit, I thought. I was going to kill this thing.

“[He] checked a box on his license to become an organ donor, and I'm alive today because of that,” one organ recipient said ...