“Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?”
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I Was Diagnosed with Incurable Cancer. This Futuristic Treatment Could Save Me.
“I’ve endured numerous rounds of radiation and taken thousands of pills—but CAR-T is the most effective therapy I’ve completed yet.”
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The Price of Remission
“When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.”
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We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
“What illness taught me about true friendship.”
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Course of Treatment
“After Stanford physician Bryant Lin was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, he invited students to follow along.”
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When Did I Start Getting Cancer?
“An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia.”
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Here Be Serpents
“A lifelong and morbid fear of snakes held me captive—until something much scarier raised its ugly head.”
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If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
“Perhaps part of Orli’s legacy is insisting on this conversation.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week features pieces from Sabrina Imbler, Natan Last, Lulu Miller and John Megahan, Casey Cep, and David Grimm.
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How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith
“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”