12 episodes
Bad Batch Wondery
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4.4 • 224 Ratings
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Patients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with slick marketing and a charismatic CEO. And to a multibillion dollar stem cell industry where greed and desperation collide. Laura Beil, the award-winning host and reporter of “Dr Death,” returns for this six-part investigative series from Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John” and “The Shrink Next Door.”
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Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
When ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to film a new show, No Going Back. But soon they all discover that paradise has its secrets. The locals claim the island belongs to them, and it’s been sold illegally. Jayne’s not leaving without a fight. A fight that will soon turn deadly.
Hosted by Alice Levine.
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The Cure to Everything
We’ll try anything to help our loved ones who are experiencing pain. John and Elaine both turn to a new medical treatment to help their mothers. But for one of them, it will go horribly wrong.
For accurate information on stem cell treatments, visit www.isscr.org/about-stem-cells, a site maintained by the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
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Pure
More patients are getting sick. As people across the country start asking questions, John K scrambles to figure out what went wrong and to save his company.
For accurate information on stem cell treatments, visit the International Society for Stem Cell Research website.
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The Entrepreneur
Who is John K? Before he founded Liveyon he had quite a remarkable career.
For accurate information on stem cell treatments, visit the International Society for Stem Cell Research website.
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The Sell
John K. builds his company, and focuses on what he does best. A fleet of salesmen and doctors are selling a miracle, and they’re not necessarily sharing the whole story of the bad batch.
For accurate information on stem cell treatments, visit the International Society for Stem Cell Research website.
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Three Vials
Vials of stem cells are shipped around the country, but some of them are ticking time bombs.
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Customer Reviews
Scary
It sums up everything that’s wrong with the US healthcare system. Doctors and clinics shouldn’t be a money making enterprise. Adverts for treatments? Scripts for doctors? 5K for an injection? This isn’t freedom this is money corrupting what should be an ethical choice - to dedicate your life to curing people.
Mmmmm …. Not sure about this !!
I was keen to get into this series after binging the Three Dr Death series.
I have mixed feelings about this one …
I felt that the story they really wanted to tell didn’t turn out to be a clear cut hero and villains tail of good and evil , so the makers had to resort to the ethics and regulation of the stem cell therapy industry. A bit puffy.
I am still no clearer whether the root cause of the infections in the first episode was a “bad batch” from the lab that supplied the distributer or the clinic administering the injections?
Or whether patients that have the treatment are generally satisfied.
Either way…. The distributer did the right thing and voluntarily recalled the stock. Where’s the story?
Saying that ….. it’s worth a few hours of anyones time.
♥️wondery
Compelling podcast! Great narration too.