It started with a headache. When an aneurysm burst in Mike Langevin’s brain, doctors said he’d probably die. Against the odds, he survived and recovered. But at what cost? Beatrice Politi tells his extraordinary story.

How does a 12-year-old boy suddenly go from a normal, healthy kid to a house-bound recluse suffering from almost constant headaches and seizures? That’s the question Dylan Neilson’s parents were desperate to answer when an unexplained illness made their son too sick to leave the house. They turned to local doctors for help but say the health care system failed them. Reporter Heather Yourex follows their fight to save Dylan’s life.

From Dracula’s favourite disguise to Gotham City’s most famous hero, bats are pop culture fixtures. But a mysterious disease has been devastating bat populations across North America. Now the disease has reached Canada and, as Paul Johnson reports, it could reduce these familiar winged critters to fiction instead of fact.