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☆ The Future of Health
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
These Drugs Are So Futuristic That Doctors Need New TrainingNext-generation treatments on the way for once-incurable diseases can be complicated to test and administer; "if we can’t get it to these patients, the science is lost." By Amy Dockser MarcusLyndon French for WSJ
☆ These Drugs Are So Futuristic That Doctors Need New Training
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Amy Dockser Marcus | Photographs Lyndon French For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A major obstacle looms for the drugs of the future. Not enough doctors know how to administer them. For just one rare neurodevelopmental disorder, known as Angelman syndrome, clinical trials are testing four cutting-edge therapies. Twenty more research programs are under way and could yield treatments ready to move into human testing in the next several years, according to Allyson Berent-Weisse, chief scientific officer of the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics, or FAST, and the mother of a child with the disorder.
☆ How to Forge Shells for Ukraine's Artillery
  + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( John Ismay | Natalie Keyssar | Lyndon French | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Every day for months, Ukrainian soldiers have fired thousands of American-made artillery shells at Russian troops, and all of that ammunition begins its journey to the battlefield at factories in northeastern Pennsylvania. The oldest of those plants, in Scranton, first began making steel shells in the early 1950s for the Korean War. The empty shells are sent to rural Iowa, where they are filled with molten explosives and packaged for delivery.
☆ She Was In the CIA. Now She Makes Pajamas for the Royals.
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Lane Florsheim | Photography Lyndon French For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nine years ago, Emily Hikade was flying to meet with an agent affiliated with a known terrorist group for her job as a case officer at the CIA. Suddenly, the single-prop plane hit a storm. The plane started spinning sideways, careening toward the water. “All I can see is the faces of my kids,” says Ms. Hikade, a 45-year-old mother of four sons. “My youngest wasn’t even a year old and I thought, they’re going to grow up without a mom.”
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