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Health & Safety

Efforts are underway to reduce the high costs of prescription drugs for U.S. patients

8:08am August 08, 2022

In an effort to reduce the high price of prescription drugs, some states and companies are taking their own measures. A not-for-profit company says it aims to introduce low-cost insulin by 2024.

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News brief: Senate passes major bill, Blinken in South Africa, health poll

6:52am August 08, 2022

Senate Democrats pass a climate, health care and tax bill after months of negotiations. Secretary of State Blinken holds high-level talks in South Africa. A poll delves into some racial disparities.

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Lauv longs for the happiness of childhood on 'All 4 Nothing'

5:07am August 08, 2022

One of pop music's main advocates of normalizing mental health issues, Lauv released a new album on Friday; it's called All 4 Nothing.

An image from an electron microscope of the monkeypox virus (orange) on infected cells (green).

COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

5:01am August 08, 2022

by Mark Kreidler

Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for COVID-19 outbreaks. U.S. researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monkeypox, and maybe other viruses.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee arrives for a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.

Hong Kong cuts COVID hotel quarantine to 3 days for arrivals

12:56am August 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Hong Kong's COVID lockdown measures have devastated the city's tourism industry and disrupted business travel in a city known for being an international financial center and a business hub.

'Scream for Me, Africa!': How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music

1:07pm August 07, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in Botswana known as "Vulture."

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Amazon may own your doctor's office next

8:03am August 07, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

NPR's Alina Selyukh speaks with Christina Farr, a principal at OMERS Ventures and former technology and health reporter, about Amazon's potential acquisition of One Medical.

Demonstrators outside PhRMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., protest lobbying by pharmaceutical companies to keep Medicare from negotiating lower prescription drug prices.

Congress is about to act on drug price reform. Here's what you need to know

10:13pm August 06, 2022

A deal on the table in Congress would help deliver on a long-time promise: to make prescription drugs more affordable. It includes a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare patients.

Abortion-rights protesters fill Indiana Statehouse corridors and cheer outside legislative chambers on Friday as lawmakers vote to concur on a near-total abortion ban, in Indianapolis.

Large employers express opposition after Indiana approves abortion ban

6:07pm August 06, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Indiana became the first state in the U.S. to pass a new abortion law after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Eli Lilly, which employs thousands in Indiana, said it would look elsewhere to expand.

Former White House COVID adviser on how the pandemic might play out next

5:24pm August 06, 2022

Despite vaccines and other precautions, COVID-19 is still here. NPR's Daniel Estrin asks former White House COVID adviser Andy Slavitt what he thinks could change the pandemic's trajectory.

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