Nancy Updike follows up on a Haaretz newspaper story about a sting operation against a medical marijuana supplier in Israel—a case where being giving was not the best idea.

Tim Reeves runs a hospital in rural Pennsylvania, and he’s trying to do something that is so hard to do and that he knows is completely up to him.

What if a new Palestinian leader came on the scene who was neither part of the corrupt autocracy of the Palestinian Authority, nor part of fundamentalist, suicide-bombing Hamas? Nancy Updike follows around possible future Palestinian political candidate Mustafa Barghouti, a doctor who's well known for setting up clinics.

Producers Nancy Updike and Robyn Semien report on critters that can kill sleep: cockroaches and bedbugs.

Producer Nancy Updike with Ki Kim, who's not afraid of walking on coals. But maybe he should have been.

Producer Nancy Updike takes some personal questions about death and dying to a place where they're happening all the time.

No radio program about caregivers in a hospital would be complete without a few words about the caregiver that is the most omnipresent...in every room, in the waiting rooms, at the nurses' stations. It's television.

In this act, writer Michael Kinsley describes harnessing the power of his own mind to deal with his Parkinson's diagnosis. Michael Kinsley is a contributing columnist for Vanity Fair and the Washington Post.

Four years ago, Matt Frerking started having attacks where he simply couldn't move his body.

An endocrinologist wrote the show about a wave of parents coming to her to treat their short (but otherwise healthy) children with human growth hormone. Contributor Scott Brown investigates.

Host Ira Glass describes the thing that we all do at some point: Talk expertly about something we don't actually know anything about. It's so common, explains This American Life contributing editor Nancy Updike, that some friends of hers invented an imaginary magazine devoted to such blathering.

The story of a White House scandal from the year 1881. President James Garfield lay dying of a gunshot wound during that summer.

Dr. Amelia Huntsberger loves everything about her rural town in northern Idaho.

Julie throws up.

Nubar Alexanian was forced to give up one thing—and then gave up another thing by choice. This story was put together by Nubar and his daughter Abby, with help from Jay Allison, for Transom.org, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Editor Susan Burton reflects on the ramp-up to an era that comes for so many of us. (9 minutes)

Mike Paterniti talks about working on a teen ambulance corps, growing up in Connecticut.

Donald Trump has promised to get rid of Obamacare. Producer David Kestenbaum talks with someone who’d lose their insurance.

Germs were first understood at the turn of the 20th century and it turns out that the aesthetics of everyday life during this century—the way we dress, the way we groom ourselves, the way we make our homes—are all partly a response to this newfangled idea of germs.

Producer Tobin Low finds a group of people with a special relationship with the idea of catching up. (10 minutes)Visit KLS Foundation for more on Klein-Levine Syndrome.

A teenage girl gets bitten by a shark, rushed to the doctor's office, stitched up, and told she'll be totally fine. Crisis averted, right? Not so much.

When health care premiums went up in New York State, a bunch of people got mad and wrote letters to the state.

A woman's elderly father has several hired caretakers who help him throughout the day. When one of the caretakers accuses another one of stealing from father, it's up to his daughter to figure out the truth.

Dr. David Kalenberger is the head of a fertility clinic in Oklahoma City.