They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily quantified.

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A catheter carrying the drug may not have delivered the doses to Ms. Pike’s bloodstream, experts said. The drug itself may have been degraded.

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The founder of the blood-testing start-up Theranos was sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and had been serving time at a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.

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Berlin's LUTHER: the proggy post-hardcore of Five Of Cups; the Korn-ish nu metal of Giving The People What They Want; and their debut, Next time send a killer.

Please hold on to your butt, and don't stick it or anything else out the window, thank you. Enjoy. Blue Medusa - Crocodile, Alissa White-Gluz's post-Arch Enemy band, in their first full-band performance video. Never Obey Again - Play Pretend, Italian electro-metalcore with a grudge. Defiance - Choice, two minutes of Stuttgart hardcore about bodily autonomy. Blood Command - The Plague On Both Your Houses, Norwegian death pop. STMLT - SiLENT KiLLER, death growls and rap. NEMOPHILA - Anatadare, a nine-and-a-half minute '80s slasher movie. Slow Pulse - Comatose ft. False Reality, Austin metallic hardcore fronted by Brooke Hampton, teaming up with UK hardcore band False Reality. Her blood - cut/here (with Stirling), dark, witch-house-y electronics. The Rat Utopia Experiment - Lobotomize Me, circus rock from Tacoma. Electrify - Fake, grungy alt rock from Querétaro, Mexico. Saint Agnes - Good Boy, London industrial goth. Valentyne - In Your Head, Manchester alt rock. Sally - IMPLICATION, instrumental shred from the Lipstick/mellows guitarist, played live with a Japanese supergroup: AYUMI (BRIDEAR), Azu (Cyntia) and MARI (Mary's Blood). Temperance - The Tower: Lean Into Fear, Italian symphonic power metal. Anna Fiori - Dejar Ir, cinematic Aztec metal. Sangham - Reclaim, eco-feminist prog/djent from Marseille. Perrish 9 - Red Thread, cinematic modern metal from Atlanta. Speed of Light - Inch by Inch, fuzzy garage rock from the Santa Monica sibling trio. MADAM - BULLSHIT, a garage rock trio from Toulouse calling out a fake friend. Na na na na na. Softcult - I Held You Like Glass, dreamy shoegaze. Parallyx - Gimme A Fkn Break, Paris metalcore in English, Arabic and Darija. LOVEBITES - Reaper's Lullaby, not a lullaby Fervence - Ascension, a short, fast fever dream of prog metalcore. And the pièce de résistance, Tina Guo - Red Cathedral, electric cello, EDM and industrial metal.

Scientists are developing imaging techniques and blood tests that one day may enable doctors to identify the disease definitively in living patients.

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