It’s hard being a patient. In 2006, I received a diagnosis that decimated my outlook on life. This was followed by a second opinion that revived it with an entirely different diagnosis and treatment ...

Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The Great Cleanup has begun. In advance of an MLB crackdown on ...

Too often as an oncologist, I have approached the gates of death with one of my patients. When a patient’s death is approaching, I can often see its coming shadow in a tint of the skin, a spike in ...

As Major League Baseball gears up to begin enforcing its ban on doctoring baseballs, New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole finds himself in the middle of controversy. Cole is among a plethora of pitchers ...

These are not good times to be a hitter in Major League Baseball. Through Wednesday, the league-wide batting average was .237, nearly tied for the lowest ever with 1968—the year hitters were so ...

There was lucre in lunacy in the Age of Reason. A new reliance on institutionalization made care for the insane a growth industry in Enlightenment England. But “mad-doctoring,” as it was known, came ...