“Are celebrity surgeons boosting awareness or their own brand?”
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The Children Who Lost Limbs In Gaza
“More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?”
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The Long Haul
“Now I rarely let myself think of those Before Times. Describing what was once my life is like trying to recapture a sensation, a place that only ever existed in a dream.”
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Tales From an Attic
“Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives.”
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After the Miracle Drug
“Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early death—but a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?”
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A Medical Nightmare
An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back.
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The Pill Messiah
“Douglas Randall Smith would have you believe he’s on the verge of a medical breakthrough that could end the opioid epidemic and keep millions of people alive.”
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What If Psychedelics’ Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect?
“Some neuroscientists now believe that the drugs’ mental-health benefits don’t come from tripping.”
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The Great Psychedelic Experiment
“Researchers mined an old drug forum and fed the entries to an AI. The result could augur a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants.”
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They Followed Doctors’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.
“Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby.”