Editors' picks

Canine clues help MacArthur 'genius' sniff out medically important genes

How teaching hospitals could lead medicine's metamorphosis

Interest grows in using natural openings for surgery

Putting the physical back in the physical exam

Mass transit for lab samples

New hospitals blend healing and conservation

The nation's health information technology leader on the future of patient data

Using lists to avoid medical mistakes

A report from one of Haiti's few working hospitals

A deadly disease, a problematic health-care system, a happy ending