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CJ Peters

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The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

By Helen Branswell

Pregnancy & medicine part 1

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Pregnant women who need medications face a risky guessing game. A federal task force is now trying to help

By Megan Thielking

Amy Mason

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‘Every time it’s a battle’: In excruciating pain, sickle cell patients are shunted aside

By Sharon Begley

IVF Ethics

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A baby with a disease gene or no baby at all: Genetic testing of embryos creates an ethical morass

By Andrew Joseph

Matt Ganem opioid withdrawl

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‘Like you’re living in hell’: A survivor on what opioid withdrawal did to his body

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

By Dominic Smith

Minn. birth

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A pain in the night and a harrowing drive: A crisis in rural health care puts mothers-to-be on a risky road

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Drawing life at its start, cell by cell

By Hyacinth Empinado

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

Neurogastronomy Illustration

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Hog jowls and clementines: A bid to awaken cancer patients’ ruined sense of taste

By Eric Boodman