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The state is at the forefront of changes to vaccination policy and public health. What does that frontier look like? (Schulson, 8/4)

Public health researcher Lisa McKenzie remembers her first aerial view of the landscape-altering impacts of fossil fuel production on the picturesque mesas that rim the western slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. “It was well pad, after well pad, after well pad,” said McKenzie, a recently retired associate professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. “I remember thinking to myself, that’s like 7,000 point sources of benzene.” (Oldham, 8/4)

A couple with ties to China say they wanted a big family. Surrogates who carried the children say they were deceived. (Long, Foldy and Randazzo, 8/5)

On a rainy evening in June 2001, abortion pirates sailed into Dublin harbor. Their converted fishing trawler had a portable clinic bolted to the deck, and the cargo included 20 doses of medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol), thousands of condoms, 120 IUDs, and 250 morning-after pills. The ship’s nearly all-female crew included a nurse and a gynecologist and was led by Rebecca Gomperts, a freckled and dark-haired Dutch doctor in her mid-thirties. (Kindig, 8/4)

Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying. (Nolen, 8/3)

Claims that natural mineral water brands are filtering their water have shocked the country. "This really is our Water-gate," says Stéphane Mandard, who has led investigations at Le Monde newspaper. "It's a combination of industrial fraud and state collusion." (Schofield, 8/8)