Health & Safety

An estimated 1.6 million people in the U.S. are allergic to sesame seeds and flour.

Health & Safety

A sesame allergy law has made it harder to avoid the seed. Here's why

2:29pm August 30, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

Sesame is now the 9th official allergen. The FDA designation was supposed to protect people with sesame allergies. Instead, it's become harder to avoid, as more bakers add sesame to their products.

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The Biden administration unveils the first 10 medications up for price negotiation

7:23am August 30, 2023

NPR's A Martinez asks Johns Hopkins University's Mariana Socal about a pharmaceutical industry argument that Medicare price negotiations will cut profits and shortchange new drug research.

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Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

4:59am August 30, 2023

by Evan Erickson

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

Amid the heatwave, millions of students are returning to schools without decent A/C

6:28pm August 29, 2023

by Sequoia Carrillo

In the midst of this summer of record-breaking heat waves, kids around the country are returning to school — often in buildings without adequate air conditioning, if any.

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Neera Tanden talks about how the Biden administration's price drug cuts will work

4:52pm August 29, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Biden's domestic policy advisor, Neera Tanden, about the administration's plan to lower the price of certain prescription drugs under Medicare.

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President Biden hugs Steven Hadfield, a Medicare recipient who takes expensive drugs, at an event on prescription drug costs at the White House on Aug. 29.

Here are the first 10 drugs that Medicare will target for price cuts

4:32pm August 29, 2023

The government will negotiate new prices for the commonly prescribed drugs, but the cuts won't take effect until 2026. In the meantime, drugmakers are fighting the negotiations with lawsuits.

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Medicaid expansion won't begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 because there's still no final budget

9:46am August 29, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

With the state budget's passage now two months late, North Carolina Gov.

A woman walks in front of a house damaged by shelling in the city of Wukro, in Tigray, Ethiopia. A new report indicates that military forces have engaged in hundreds of sexual assaults on girls and women.

Whatever happened in Ethiopia: Did the cease-fire bring an end to civilian suffering?

9:39am August 29, 2023

by Ari Daniel

The civil war in northern Ethiopia officially ended in November. But a new report indicates that military forces have engaged in hundreds of sexual assaults on girls and women.

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Sen. Klobuchar was among those fighting to lower drug prices for Medicare recipients

8:24am August 29, 2023

NPR's A Martinez talks to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota about which medications are up first to have their prices negotiated, and when will the new prices kick in.

The Biden administration picks the first 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiation

8:13am August 29, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The Inflation Reduction Act gives the federal government power to negotiate the price of certain drugs for Medicare. It marks a change to prescription drug policy that's been decades in the making.