Cerebral palsy was long considered a children’s condition. People aging with it face a dearth of research and health insurance that can’t comprehend their disability.

Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables

A pandemic and rising demand expose the vulnerabilities of a system that runs on poverty wages.

As 18 million Baby Boomers brace for the financial insecurity of old age, Democrats are pushing to expand Social Security and other elderly benefits.

Ursula K. Le Guin is a giant of literature. Her new book, "No Time To Spare," shows her mind operating in a new medium.

A rare genetic disorder protects its carriers from disease and aging. What if a diet could replicate its effects?

You and everyone you know will be touched by the disease. How are we going to get through this?

Our culture’s cruel obsession with dirty old women

Solving an evolutionary mystery