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 | 03/31/10 Are You Buying Illegal Drugs
The answers lie in our haphazardly regulated pharmaceutical supply chain and the dangerous gray market that intersects it. As soon as medicines leave manufacturers’ loading docks, they enter a market teeming with middlemen, many legitimate but some not. The drugs may move through a dozen hands,... |
 | 05/21/09 "Bad Bargain," Self
Within a month, she had gained 15 pounds, couldn't sleep well, developed gastrointestinal problems and felt such extreme fatigue and lack of motivation that she thought about quitting her job. She cried and called in sick for days at a time. "I chalked it up to exhaustion after the whirlwind... |
 | 01/01/09 "Back to Life," Working Mother
Teresa Bagan had every reason to be elated. After four years of bruising fertility treatments, stress and disappointment, she was finally holding her beautiful son, whose piercing blue eyes and sweet smile made her feel that at last all was right with the world. “I thought, The most difficult... |
 | 03/01/08 "Your Hospital's Deadly Secret," Conde Nast Portfolio
As days turned to weeks, the Shinns became optimistic. Despite Alyssa's tiny size, she had none of the most worrying neonatal deficits—no bleeding in the brain or skin problems or blood vessels that wouldn't close. She was gaining weight. At three weeks, the doctors took out her breathing tube.... |
 | 07/17/07 "The War on Terror: Rorschach and Awe," VanityFair.com
A C.I.A. interrogation team was expected but hadn't yet arrived. But the F.B.I. agents who had been nursing his wounds and cleaning him after he'd soiled himself asked Zubaydah what he knew. The detainee said something about a plot against an ally, then began slipping into sepsis. He was probably... |
 | 01/01/01 The "Medical Mafia," Fortune
The accident, on June 12, 2002, might have been forgotten. But Johnson woke up the next day with back pain. She went to her regular doctor but was told that she'd have to pay all her treatment costs upfront, since a car accident could result in lawsuits and her health insurance might not cover... |