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Longevity clinics promise personalized health advice and cutting-edge tests. Now major hospitals are entering the business, at costs reaching $45,000 a year. (Todd, 10/6)

The Amish family thought the chills and fever that had hammered their second oldest son was strep throat. Then a ringing came from the phone shack in the yard: A friend was calling to say the measles had been lurking at a horse auction in Lancaster, Pa. The 15-year-old boy and his father, an Amish horse breaker, had been there just a few days before. “We knew it was the measles,” Emma Miller, the boy’s mother, said. (Hartocollis, 10/4)

Amid accusations of rape at Cornell University, a growing body of research is challenging assumptions about how victims remember details of their assaults. (Wu and Eunjung Cha, 10/5)

“Don’t Google,” the pediatric geneticist warned us on a sunny October afternoon in 2020. She had just diagnosed our 11-year-old daughter, Maya, with Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome, a genetic condition so rare there were only 61 cases in the scientific literature. (Fernandes, 10/8)

Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched and listened as Christa Pike cried, whimpered and snored through Tennessee’s attempt to execute her. By the end of it, executioners had given her two doses of the state’s lethal injection drugs. Her arms were swollen and blistered, and one had turned purple, her attorneys said. And she was still alive, marking what legal experts say is the first time a prisoner in the U.S. has survived one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. Even if the outcome was unprecedented, what went wrong was not. (Blakinger, 10/6)

Charlotte Schwartz, 88, has been married to her husband for 63 years, and, up until recently, was his full-time caretaker. She had been caring for him for the past five years, mostly by herself. Her husband was diagnosed with dementia and mood disorders, so she helped him with his diabetic and pancreatic medication, and with daily tasks like eating, bathing, and going to the bathroom. (Richardson, 10/5)

More than 25 years ago, Lois Curtis called a lawyer with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society from a pay phone in a hospital hallway. She had an intellectual disability and wanted help to get out of the state hospitals where she had lived for most of her life. Instead of spending her days heavily sedated and shuffling between the day room and the place where she slept, she wanted to be in her own apartment, to make her own decisions about what to do with her days. (Luterman, 10/7)

Online gambling has surged in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed states to legalize sports betting in 2018, prompting public health concerns about gambling addiction and calls for stricter consumer protections. Online sportsbooks such as DraftKings and FanDuel have touted “responsible gaming” features as evidence that they are taking appropriate steps to protect consumers from spiraling out of control. Reporter Jake Pearson put these safeguards to the test. (Wilson, 10/5)