Colorado pioneered legal marijuana without sparking 'reefer madness,' but challenges lie ahead

A decade after legalizing marijuana for recreational use, Colorado is still grappling with several major public health, business, and equity questions that could determine whether the state's efforts are a lesson in innovative public policy or in one state's hubris to think it could single-handedly unwind the consequences of the decades-long war on drugs. Read more.

By Nicholas Florko

Kristoffer Tripplaar/SIPA via AP

After Sarepta trial failure, families and doctors brace for another debate on Duchenne therapy

To hear Sarepta CEO Doug Ingram tell it, the results Monday afternoon from a large trial of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy marked a clear medical breakthrough. And yet the rest of the Duchenne community was more cautious in its enthusiasm. Read more.

By Jason Mast and Adam Feuerstein

Courtesy The Glia Project

In Gaza, the Glia Project 3D prints tourniquets and stethoscopes

The tiny group, which was founded in 2016 and prints open-source medical equipment for low-resource areas, is pioneering a bold new vision for democratizing medical devices, starting in war-torn areas where they're most needed. Read more.

By Lizzy Lawrence

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