Psychiatrist Robert Custer spent his life convincing doctors that compulsive gambling was not an impulse control problem. Today, his research is foundational for diagnosis and treatment.

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Doctors and researchers increasingly see a link between exposures to contaminated cabin air and fatal illnesses.

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