Science

Explainer: How does CAR-T cancer treatment work?

December 13, 2025

Here’s news I know many readers have been anxiously awaiting: The CAR-T was a success! It’s time for a CAR-T “explainer.”

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Is Israeli emigration harming medical services?

November 16, 2025

I was at the hospital, prepared to be called into surgery for a procedure. I wasn’t taken for 7 hours. Is emigration harming Israel’s medical system?

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What a way to end it all

September 28, 2025

What would I do if the CAR-T didn’t work or didn’t give me the long remission I’m so hoping for? Or a secondary cancer? Would I choose more treatment?

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This is your brain on mushrooms

June 29, 2025

“Drink it down slowly,” instructs Shawn, my guide for what will be one of the most unusual therapy sessions I’ve embarked upon, unusual because the chunks in my beverage is not chocolate.

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Could consciousness last forever?

June 15, 2025

Is consciousness fundamental? And if it does exist separate from our minds and bodies, would we actually want that?

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To pee or not to pee

May 3, 2025

My worst medical nightmare was averted but in its place I now have a nephrostomy: a bag on my back to collect my urine.

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Flying through hospitalization

April 6, 2025

Throughout my cancer journey, one of my biggest fears has been needing to be hospitalized. That day finally arrived recently.

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How not to save a kidney

March 23, 2025

He introduced himself as “Yuval the smiley guy,” which was not far off for a doctor who works in the hospital department dealing with genitalia.

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My first fentanyl

March 9, 2025

I don’t remember when I fell asleep or when I woke up, but I was in another room. That’s what a little fentanyl will do for you.

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Cancer is not a “battle”

January 11, 2025

zIn 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “war on cancer.” The battle cliche as stuck ever since. But is it appropriate?

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