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Health Aug 15

How Napoleon’s death in exile became a controversial mystery

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World Jul 30

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CIA still investigating cause of ‘Havana Syndrome’ ailments affecting U.S. diplomats

Judy Woodruff and Nick Schifrin discuss the debilitating medical ailments affecting U.S. diplomatic and intelligence officers in Cuba — which have become known as Havana Syndrome. Six months in, what steps has the Biden administration taken to aid those affected?…

Health Jan 25

The infectious disease that sprung Al Capone from Alcatraz

after he was finally imprisoned for his life of crime, it was neither case law nor strong-armed tactics that set him free. It was, in fact, a tiny microbe called Treponema pallidum.

By Dr. Howard Markel

Health Dec 05

A symphony of second opinions on Mozart’s final illness

On Dec. 5, 225 years ago, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drew his last breath, at age 35. Ever since, generations of doctors have been obsessed with figuring out what caused his premature death.

By Dr. Howard Markel

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