Outlook issue: Summer 2016

America’s growing problem
Averting the lifelong health risks and spiraling social costs of childhood obesity

Rewiring the body
Severing the brain’s critical link to a peripheral nerve can render an arm useless. Pioneering surgeries reroute neural impulses and redefine hope for paralysis.

Reconditioned … lungs?
They’re among the most difficult transplants. An innovative approach is increasing the options.