The Boy with Half a Brain
To save William Buttars’s life, his parents had to risk it.
Medicine
The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion
Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.
Brave and Afraid and Heading Down the Longest Road
One man’s battle with mental illness.
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Brave and Afraid
“He was an ebullient boy, quick to laugh and easy to love. And then, at 17, the shadow fell. A devastating diagnosis of mental illness. Trouble, hospital, home, into the depths again. Now, sustained by his mother’s unimaginably patient love, he aims to make his way back.”
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Days of Crisis, Compassion
“There may be a more exhausting journey than that of the mentally ill, their families, and their caregivers. But for those locked in the cycle of hopes raised and dashed, it’s hard to imagine what it could be.”
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Desperately Guarding Hope
“No matter how he hates them, Michael Bourne has finally decided to stick with his meds. They may save his life, but at the price of not feeling fully alive. It is a cruel calculus, for him and for many.”
DIY Diagnosis
Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.
The Limits of Compassion
On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.
The New Face of Richard Norris
The postscript to a miracle.
Survivor No. 3
A day after swimming in an Arkansas water park, Kali Harding was diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba that kills 99% of the people infects. This is the story of how she survived.
One of a Kind
When a child has a condition that’s new to science.
Why Do We Have Blood Types?
More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.
Sex Without Fear
The debate surrounding Truvada, the first drug approved by the FDA to prevent HIV.
Nature’s Most Perfect Killing Machine
How the Ebola virus works.
Swamp Nurse
In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.
Behind the Yellow Door, a Man’s Mental Illness Worsens
A family struggles as a 42-year-old husband, father and son becomes increasingly isolated.
How an Organ Transplant Changed My Life
The story of a new pancreas.
A Doctor’s Quest to Save People by Injecting Them With Scorpion Venom
The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.
Mother's Mind
A series on maternal mental illness.
Life, After
Living without your left arm.
Partial Recall
Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?
Why Isn’t Delonte West in the NBA?
How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.
Arrested Development
Gabrielle Williams is nine years old. She weighs just 12 pounds. The mystery of “syndrome x” and the girls who never age.
The Devil's Bait
Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.
The Big Sleep
How medically induced hypothermia could save lives.
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
A cancer doctor on losing his wife to cancer.
Ecstatic States
Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?
What Michael Did
Twelve years ago, Michael Stewart killed his mother during a psychotic episode. How he and his family are coping today.
