IN 2010 AN American woman referred to as Emily Whitehead developed a type of leukaemia that’s often terminal. She was 5 years previous. Two years later, she turned the primary paediatric affected person to be supplied a type of remedy referred to as CAR–T, during which the physique’s immune system is reprogrammed to assault cancerous cells. The remedy labored. A documentary movie about her journey, launched in 2022, was referred to as “Of Drugs and Miracles”.