Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control
(AP) – Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in […]
Read MoreTeen arrested in fatal shooting of 16-year-old during Oklahoma high school football game
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old at an Oklahoma high school football game, the authorities said Wednesday. Deputies working with other law enforcement agencies took the boy into custody […]
Read MoreStates at the forefront of fights over wetlands protections after justices slash federal rules
(AP) A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government’s power to oversee wetlands, the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature handed state agencies an order: Don’t give the ecologically crucial waters any more protection than newly weakened federal […]
Read MoreHurricane Idalia unleashes fury on Florida and Georgia, swamping a wide stretch of coast
PERRY, Fla. (AP) – Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into rivers, unmooring small boats and downing […]
Read MoreVictim identified, suspect charged in fatal UNC-Chapel Hill shooting
Zijie Yan, an associate professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s department of applied physical sciences, was shot and killed on campus Monday. Photo: www.unc.edu NC Newsline UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Tailei Qi, 34, has been charged with first degree murder in Monday’s […]
Read MoreJacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – A white man wearing a mask and firing a weapon emblazoned with a swastika gunned down three Black people Saturday in a racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then […]
Read MoreMedicaid expansion won’t begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 because there’s still no final budget
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – With the state budget’s passage now two months late, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration announced Monday that it can’t start the implementation of Medicaid expansion to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults in the early […]
Read MoreTeva to pay $225M to settle cholesterol drug price-fixing charges
WASHINGTON (AP) – The generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Monday to pay $225 million to settle price-fixing charges related to sales of a major cholesterol-lowering drug. The U.S. Department of Justice said the agreement also requires Teva to divest […]
Read MoreJacksonville shootings refocus attention on the city’s racist past and the struggle to move on
By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the […]
Read MoreGender-affirming surgeries in the US nearly tripled before pandemic dip, study finds
BY CARLA K. JOHNSON (AP) The number of gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019 before dropping slightly in 2020, according to a study published Wednesday. The increase likely reflects expanded insurance coverage for transgender care after […]
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