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By Dhruv Khullar
In Innovation, Patient Care
Posted July 15, 2025

Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?

When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he could barely stand. Fajgenbaum, a former college [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy
Posted May 6, 2025

A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration

In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse in Boston, received a postcard asking whether she’d like to take part in a clinical trial aimed at preventing diabetes. Well, this is [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care
Posted June 13, 2024

Rise of the Nanomachines

Ana Santos, a microbiologist at Rice University, grew up in Cantanhede, a small city in Portugal that is known as a biotechnology hub and a source of good wine. When she was a child, her [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care
Posted May 5, 2024

Should We Be Worried About Bird Flu?

In December, 2021, a few weeks after the Omicron variant emerged to spark a new, punishing phase of the covid-19 pandemic, Jim Lester’s birds got sick. Lester, who owns an exhibition farm in [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care
Posted April 15, 2024

How to Die in Good Health

Some of my earliest memories are of summers with my grandparents, in New Delhi. I spent long, scorching months drinking lassi, playing cricket, and helping my grandparents find ripe mangoes at [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care
Posted February 18, 2024

How Joe Biden Could Address the Age Issue

In a report sure to find its place in the annals of politically damaging exonerations, Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care
Posted January 12, 2024

Will a Full-Body MRI Scan Help You or Hurt You?

Ryan Crownholm, a middle-aged Army veteran with luminous green eyes and a strong jawline, likes to describe himself as a health hacker. He has written on LinkedIn that, after founding and running [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Mental Health, Patient Care
Posted October 18, 2023

Why Are We So Bad at Getting Better?

Four and a half years ago, in the heat of an N.B.A. playoff game against the Houston Rockets, Kevin Durant, the superstar forward of the Golden State Warriors, dodged a defender, dribbled once, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Coronavirus, Patient Care
Posted May 1, 2020

The Essential Workers Filling New York’s Coronavirus Wards

As this wave of the coronavirus starts to slow, I can’t help but notice that many of the people still getting infected are those who don’t have the luxury of distance—those who, by necessity or [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Coronavirus, Patient Care
Posted April 23, 2020

The Challenges of Post-COVID-19 Care

Among the patients I care for at the hospital is a young woman recovering from covid-19. To keep her blood oxygenated, she needs a device called a non-rebreather mask. The mask is connected by a [...]

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Dhruv Khullar
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  • Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
    July 15, 2025
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    June 2, 2025
  • What to Make of Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
    May 28, 2025
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