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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

Science

2011 Pulitzer Prize: Explanatory Reporting: One in a Billion: A Boy's Life, a Medical Mystery

Nicholas Volker is a little boy with a rare, devastating disease. In a desperate bid to save his life, Wisconsin doctors must decide: Is it time to push medicine’s frontier?

  1. Part 1: A Baffling Illness

  2. Part 2: Sifting Through the DNA Haystack

  3. Part 3: Gene Insights Lead to a Risky Treatment

Alison Sherwood, Gary Porter, Kathleen Gallagher, Lou Saldivar, Mark Johnson The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal Dec 2010 45min Permalink