EditorialScott Matsuda and his wife, Jennifer Matsuda. The trial drug that eases his rare chronic leukemia cost $6,000 monthly. “Six thousand dollars a month would ruin us,” he says. (Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times)
EditorialPaxton Bowers, 5, a leukemia patient at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, received a COVID-19 vaccine shot on Nov. 3, 2021. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialBettina Plevan in her office at the law firm Proskauer Rose in New York on March 9, 2006. She worked there for nearly 50 years and was the first woman partner in the firm’s litigation department. Plevan, a top litigator who made her name defending employers in sexual harassment and gender discrimination cases, and who helped pave the way for women to advance in the legal profession after shattering glass ceilings herself, died on Oct. 29, 2021, at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 75. The cause was acute myeloma leukemia, her law firm, Proskauer Rose, said in an announcement. (Nicole Bengiveno/ New York Times)
EditorialMike Watters, who lives near the Fayetteville plant, and has a rare form of leukemia outside his home in Hope Mills, N.C. on July 13, 2021. (Ed Kashi/The New York Times)
EditorialPalestinians take part in a protest against the death of the freed prisoner, Hussein Masalma, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 23 Sep 2021