Medicine and Health

The storyThe Glitter Hands — Leo's teacher puts glitter on one hand. Soon the glitter is everywhere.

The storyThe Late Night Before the Game — Rosa stays up late. The next day, soccer feels very hard.

The storyMaya Hears Her Heart — Maya feels nervous at her checkup, until the nurse shares a special tool.

The storyBalloon Breathing — Before a spelling test, Jamal's tummy feels tight, and his teacher shows him a trick.

The storySlow Moves in the Park — Nai Nai shows Leo a calm way to start the day.

The storyRosa Leads the Way — A family practices getting out of the house, and the youngest shows the way.

The storyThe Last Lap — In the final lap of a race, Maya feels her whole body speed up at once.

The storyFive Lunches, One Table — A class learns that healthy lunches look very different around the world.

The storyThe Milkmaid's Clear Skin — An old country story helped a doctor find a way to stop one of the worst sicknesses in history.

The storyRosa Makes the Call — When her grandfather fell, a ten-year-old girl remembered what to do.

The storyThe Lady with the Lamp — In a crowded army hospital, one nurse walks the halls at night and starts counting.

The storyTwo Visits in One Week — A boy watches two very different healers and notices something they share.

The storyThe Worry Gets Lighter — Maya carried a worry for weeks. Then she told someone.

The storyMarks on the Door Frame — Every year, two friends stand against the same door and see how much they have grown.

The storyThe Scribe and the Broken Jaw — In ancient Egypt, a scribe copies careful steps for helping a patient with a broken jaw.

The storyPractice on a Melon — In ancient India, a young surgeon learns to cut on a melon before touching a patient.

The storyTwo Rashes, One Careful Doctor — In Baghdad, a doctor refuses to call two sicknesses the same thing just because they look alike.

The storyA Jawbone That Did Not Fit — A young teacher in Italy holds up a human jawbone and realizes a famous book got it wrong.

The storyThe Pump on Broad Street — A London doctor follows the deaths street by street and finds the water pump at the center.

The storyThe Moldy Dish — A scientist comes home from vacation and notices what is not growing.

The storyThe Knee That Turned Red — Maya scrapes her knee at recess, and by dinner it has a story to tell.

The storyThe Offer at the Party — At a friend's birthday party, Dev is handed a vape and has about three seconds to decide.

The storyTwelve Sailors, Six Pairs — In 1747 a navy surgeon tried something new: he compared treatments side by side.

The storyA Town Signs Up — In 1948 thousands of neighbors in one Massachusetts town agreed to let doctors study their hearts for life.

The storyA Recipe from the Fourth Century — A scientist in Beijing reads an old fever remedy and changes one step in her lab.

The storyThe Herbs in the Suitcase — A heart doctor in Chicago learns that the most important question is the one nobody asked.

The storyA Net Over the Crib — In western Kenya, a health worker shows a young mother how a simple net can guard her baby through the night.

The storyThe Island of Long Lives — On Okinawa, researchers met people past one hundred and asked what their lives had been like.

The storyOne Broken Arm, Four Cities — Four people fall and break the same bone on the same day, and each one meets a different way of paying.

The storyThe Grandmother in the Corner — A young doctor learns that the quietest person in the exam room may be the one who decides.

The storyThe Cells That Kept Growing — In 1951 a young mother's cells were taken without her knowledge, and they changed medicine.

The storyTwo Visits, 180 Years Apart — A student reads a report from the 1840s and then walks into a school clinic.

The storyOne Edit, One Life — In 2019 a woman from Mississippi became the first person in the United States treated for sickle cell disease with CRISPR-edited cells.

The storyGrandma's Honey and a Fair Test — A student sets out to prove her grandmother's cough remedy works, and learns to design a fair test instead.