Table of Contents

July 15, 2024

Cover Story

The Health Issue

When 23andMe forecasts the worst, what mammograms hide, and the wildly good news in brain cancer.

On the Cover: Photo-illustration by Martin Schoeller; Source photographs: Seth Wenig/Pool (Trump), Mandel Ngan/AFP (Biden); Casting: Renée Torrière; Makeup: Elizabeth Yoon

features

Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever

Then an experimental treatment made his brain tumor shrink overnight. One man’s miracle ushers in a new era.

By Christopher Cox
In Denial

How to fight back against insurance.

By Kristen Mascia
When You Know You Might Forget Everything

What happens when you learn you carry the Alzheimer’s gene?

By Amelia Schnobek
Blindsided by Breast Cancer

Mammograms have long been the standard for early cancer detection. What if they’re wrong?

By Dyan Neary
How Billionaires Die

And what measures they will take to stay alive.

By Joe Kloc

Intelligencer:
This Old Man

Neighborhood News

It wasn’t just climate change that caused the Third Avenue Bridge to lock up.

Departments

Strategist

The Culture Pages

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