Outlook issue: Summer 2016
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America’s growing problem
Averting the lifelong health risks and spiraling social costs of childhood obesity
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Rewiring the body
Severing the brain’s critical link to a peripheral nerve can render an arm useless. Pioneering surgeries reroute neural impulses and redefine hope for paralysis.
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Reconditioned … lungs?
They’re among the most difficult transplants. An innovative approach is increasing the options.