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Charlotte Huff, mosaic.com

Excruciating pain, extensive burns and PTSD: What happens when you’re struck by lightning

If you’re hit by lightning, there’s a nine in ten chance you’ll survive. But what are the lasting effects of being exposed to hundreds of millions of volts?

Charlotte Huff, mosaic.com
· May 28, 2017 · 02:30 pm
Hitting pause on cancer treatment: Choosing the wait-and-watch route

Is it okay to choose surveillance over surgery? Wondering whether it is time to worry takes its own toll for watchful waiters.

Charlotte Huff, mosaic.com
· Aug 28, 2016 · 02:30 pm
Decisions on a knife-edge: the dilemma about surgery to ward off ovarian cancer

Surgery could help avert the risk of ovarian cancer, but with it comes early menopause. To avoid this, some doctors propose delaying part of the procedure. But is this safe?

Charlotte Huff, mosaic.com
· Mar 15, 2015 · 10:30 am