A Caby With a Disease Gene or No Baby at All

Andrew Joseph looks at a moral quandary facing genetic scientists and fertility professionals: what to do about embryos with genetic anomalies? This STATnews piece offers a thorough look at the dilemmas faced by doctors and patients grappling with a field in which there are still a lot of unknowns, despite the huge progress being made regularly.

Source: STAT
Published: Oct 23, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,700 words)

Accidental Therapists: For Insect Detectives, the Trickiest Cases Involve the Bugs that Aren’t Really There

The psychiatric condition known as delusional parasitosis is poorly understood, haphazardly treated and on the rise. Public entomologists like Gale Ridge work on the front lines of treatment, where the limits of science and medicine meet.

Source: STAT
Published: Mar 22, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,484 words)

Not All There

Gable never knew her mother when she was well or was told that a lobotomy caused her behavior. She only knew the erratic, unpredictable person who drank and raged and had little impulse control. Now a mother herself, Gable tries to make sense of the surgery and accept the person her mother was versus the person she once had been.

Author: Mona Gable
Source: STAT
Published: Oct 27, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,988 words)