Today The Atlantic is launching Being Human, a new section and newsletter at TheAtlantic.com as part of a major expansion of its writing and reporting on health. The name describes The Atlantic’s wide-ranging approach to health coverage, on what it means to live a life bound up in a body and conducted by a mysterious, fallible brain.

The Atlantic grew its health-reporting team significantly ahead of this launch, and Being Human will broaden the magazine’s existing coverage of the ideas and issues that readers encounter every day: wellness culture, human behavior, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg said of the expansion: “The Atlantic’s health team produces the smartest, most analytically acute, and best-written stories of any journalism outfit nationally, and with this new expansion, we’re going to be comprehensive in a way we haven’t been before. In an age of mass confusion––not just about health, of course––I think our team is perfectly positioned to bring clarity to this important coverage area.”

Being Human launches with new reporting on the BRCA gene needing a rebrand, by Kristen V. Brown; how the broad support for vaccines in America may be tested by the incoming Trump administration, by Daniel Engber; and the way people are thinking about deodorant all wrong, from Yasmin Tayag.

Find more stories at the Being Human section, and please reach out with questions or interest in interviewing our writers about their reporting.

Press Contact: Anna Bross | press@theatlantic.com