medical data

Three months into the joyous chaos of parenthood, Julián Isla’s world turned sharply when his infant son’s limbs started shaking and his body stiffened during a harmless bath—a moment familiar to many new parents, but one that would send Isla’s family down a medical rabbit hole no one should...

A few decades ago, the notion that a patient could show up to a doctor’s appointment with more data than the doctor—or at least with a formidable stack of web printouts—would have sounded like a scene from a farcical medical sit-com. Today, it’s almost unremarkable. In fact, if current trends...