Every day, hundreds of thousands of people in the US have to make decisions about their health.

Treating diseases, managing pain. It can be scary and can be life changing.

But what happens if you're offered a supposed miracle cure

and you end up worse off than before? In Wundery's Dr Death, you heard about 33 patients in Texas who went in for surgery and had

their lives forever changed by an incompetent doctor.

Hosting reporter Laura Beal broke that story wide open and now she's reporting on another

important story stem cell therapy and a bad batch that gave a group of

patients disastrous results. Bad Batch will investigate the

multimillion dollar under-regulated industry of stem cell therapy, where

corporate greed and patient desperation collide. It's an industry that claims to treat pain,

autoimmune diseases, infections, and even autism.

It's a cautionary tale and an important listen.

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In the fall of 2015, John Koesel Sharon's mother called him with some worrying news.

Well, you know, my mom calls me with, you know, she texts me with these things like,

you know, this is what happened to me today I'm not feeling well and so she

sent me pictures of her hand and she said you know I burnt today I burnt my hand

and it's really bad. His mom Lois said she'd been helping a stepdad weld a gate on their farm in Wisconsin.

And she was holding that gate and he dropped a glove.

The glove fell into a pile of leaves.

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