Stories by Dina Fine Maron

Blacks and whites on the transplant list are finally getting the organs at equal rates, although fewer blacks may make it onto the lists to begin with

A Mediterranean-style diet may slow memory loss, even if adopted late in life

Synthetic marijuana is cheap, widespread, hard to track and highly toxic

MERS inoculation triggers response in monkeys and camels, raising hopes for future human use

Schools are grading children’s body masses, but the data on such programs is scant

Despite the implications of a new nonprofit funded by Coke, reams of evidence point to an unequivocal answer

New findings are informing how to care for Ebola survivors and their communities

Electronic health data, long touted as a way to inject new life into patient recruitment, will finally be put to the test with clinical trials

An expert weighs in on what the promising study results will mean for future outbreaks

The VA's four-year-old initiative includes thousands of DNA sequences along with a dose of privacy know-how

Pharma companies—and maybe, eventually, the Supreme Court—will ensure that it only becomes harder to execute people with drugs in America

Combating chemical poison aflatoxin hinges on boosting fungal growth on African crops

Researchers are trying to determine if chemicals used to knock out young children during surgery can have long-term repercussions on memory and development

In a 6–3 decision, the high court ruled in favor of the Obama administration and the status quo

By getting volunteers to live in a sleep lab for more than a month, researchers hope to unravel the effects of chronic sleep debt and circadian rhythm gone awry

Sending people home with meds for their bedmates gets results but raises questions about drug resistance

Statistics have suggested a sharp increase in the number of American women dying as a complication of pregnancy since the late 1980s, but a closer look at the data hints that all is not as it seems

The libido-enhancing drug approved by an FDA advisory panel acts slowly on the brain to increase desire—not quickly on the mechanics of the sexual act

If the administration loses, the elimination of federal subsidies to many states would boost health care costs for all

Genes, traits and disease are linked in complex and surprising ways

Infecting mosquitoes with a common bacterium might be the best tool available for fighting “breakbone fever”

Skull fragments dating back 430,000 years appear to be those of the world's first known murder victim, based on the damage observed. Dina Maron reports

Studies of sunshine-denied human buttocks help settle the matter

The skin of a California octopus species has a molecular light-sensing mechanism that allows it to change color to match its surroundings with no input from the creature's eyes or brain. Dina Fine Maron reports