Hey everybody, Nate Hale here.

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

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

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

and you end up worse off than before?

In Wundere'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.

Hosten reporter Laura Beale broke that story open and now she is 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 multi-million 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, you know, she taxed me with these things like you know this 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 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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