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NPR readers share the dishes they love most for the Lunar New Year.

Food holds special meaning on the Lunar New Year. Readers share their favorite dishes

8:00am February 10, 2024

by Suzanne Nuyen

Much like Thanksgiving, many dishes eaten during the Lunar New Year are special to the holiday. NPR readers shared their most cherished dishes.

Illustration for coronavirus FAQ on protection for the immunocompromised.

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Coronavirus FAQ: I'm immunocompromised. Will pills, gargles and sprays fend off COVID?

4:08pm February 09, 2024

by Jonathan Lambert

People who are immunocompromised continue to worry about COVID. A raft of products promise protection. Is there any evidence they can protect from infection or lessen severity of disease?

a person with a notepad talks to someone on couch

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New Child Behavioral Health dashboard compiles critical statewide data

3:30pm February 09, 2024

by Bethany Chafin

The online tool includes information on things like the percentage of children across the state diagnosed with depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, and substance use disorder. Metrics also include emergency department numbers.

The Supreme Court will hear the case against the abortion pill mifepristone on March 26. It's part of a two-drug regimen with misoprostol for abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted

5:01am February 09, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

A research paper that raises questions about the safety of abortion has been retracted. The research is cited in a federal judge's ruling about the abortion pill mifepristone.

A brother and sister enjoy an imaginative game in a domestic garden on a sunny day. Siblings can have a powerful effect on one another.

Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!

5:01am February 09, 2024

Siblings can have a profound effect on us in childhood and over the course of our lives. How have these bonds affected you? Share your story with us.

Salt Lake City sits in a bowl of a mountain valley where dirty air can get trapped for days during winter inversions.

Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards

5:01am February 09, 2024

by Kirk Siegler

The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, pressed executives from Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck and Johnson & Johnson about the prices they charge for drugs in the U.S.

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Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the U.S.

6:02pm February 08, 2024

by Sydney Lupkin

The Senate HELP committee questioned pharmaceutical CEOs about how much more Americans pay for the same drugs sold for less in Canada, Japan and Europe.

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It's no surprise there's a global measles outbreak. But the numbers are 'staggering'

11:35am February 08, 2024

by Fran Kritz

That's the adjective used by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Immunization Division. Can the world bring this outbreak under control?

Illustration for story on conflict-related sexual violence.

Sexual violence is an ancient and often unseen war crime. Is it inevitable?

11:32am February 08, 2024

by Jill Langlois

"Conflict-related sexual violence" is as old as the Bible and as topical as current wars around the world. We talk to three experts about why it persists, why it's underreported and how to stop it.

Barbara Green poses for a photo at her home on February 2, 2024 in Falls Church, Virginia. Green, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022, has been urging state lawmakers to legalize physician-assisted death.

Virginia lawmakers consider proposal to legalize physician-assisted death

9:34am February 08, 2024

by Ben Paviour

In ten states and Washington D.C., some patients with terminal illnesses can request medication from their doctor to end their lives.

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