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Zika in Brazil: One disease, two very different lives

By STAT staff

SOON SHIONG
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‘It will help us with our product’: Emails show how a billionaire’s philanthropy boosted his business

By Rebecca Robbins

Taylo Wilson
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Taylor Wilson’s parents fought for 41 days to get their daughter treatment. They couldn’t stop another overdose

By Max Blau

Alternative Medicine
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Medicine with a side of mysticism: Top hospitals promote unproven therapies

By Casey Ross, Max Blau, and Kate Sheridan

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How the world’s richest doctor gave away millions — then steered the cash back to his company

By Rebecca Robbins

Proove therapeutics illustration
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It’s easy money: Lab offers doctors up to $144,000 a year to push dubious genetic tests, employees say

By Charles Piller

Blaine Talbott
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Homeopathic remedies harmed hundreds of babies, families say, as FDA investigated for years

By Sheila Kaplan

SOON-SHIONG Moonshot
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He vowed to cure cancer. But this billionaire’s moonshot is falling far short of the hype

By Rebecca Robbins

Nelson Wood
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This dentist broke his own opioid habit. Can the dental profession do the same?

By David Armstrong

Havana nurse
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The Cuban hustle: Doctors drive cabs and work abroad to make up for meager pay

By Rob Waters

Constance Rodenbarger
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A dangerous wait: Colleges can’t meet soaring student needs for mental health care

By Megan Thielking

Asylum trauma
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Fleeing violence, asylum-seekers rely on psychologists to back up their story

By Eric Boodman

CIRM Stem cell illustration
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California voters were promised cures. But the state stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trials

By Charles Piller

STANFORD CENTER FOR BACK PAIN
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A ‘civil war’ over painkillers rips apart the medical community — and leaves patients in fear

By Bob Tedeschi

Pieter Cohen
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A supplement maker tried to silence this Harvard doctor — and put academic freedom on trial

By Rebecca Robbins

Faces
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52 weeks, 52 faces: Obituaries narrate lives lost to the opioid epidemic

By David Armstrong

ICE mental health
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Detention centers, bracing for flood of new arrivals, are ‘set up to fail’ immigrants with mental illness

By Max Siegelbaum

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The fight to save lives at the world’s deadliest race

By Dominic Smith

Lubbock - Apartment
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‘The Amazon of drug trafficking’

By David Armstrong

THE SWISS AGENT
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The ‘Swiss Agent’: Long-forgotten research unearths new mystery about Lyme disease

By Charles Piller

East Liverpool
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Behind the photo: How heroin took over an Ohio town

By Casey Ross

Moderna
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Ego, ambition, and turmoil: Inside one of biotech’s most secretive startups

By Damian Garde

Stanislaw Burzynski
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To help cancer patients, lawmakers pushed access to a controversial doctor

By Sheila Kaplan

Heroin Huntington WV
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26 overdoses in just hours: Inside a community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic

By Andrew Joseph

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Dope Sick: A harrowing story of best friends, addiction — and a stealth killer

By David Armstrong

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‘Game of Genomes’ Season 3: How I unearthed my ancestors through my DNA

By Carl Zimmer

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‘Game of Genomes’ Season 2: Adventuring deep into the mysterious wilderness of our DNA

By Carl Zimmer

Peter Piot
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History credits this man with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong

By Helen Branswell

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‘Game of Genomes’ Season 1: An epic quest to crack the mysteries of our DNA

By Carl Zimmer

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