“I'm just concerned because … there's a ton of seniors out here,” Anne Weirich of Brewster said. The change to a customs rule could impede mail-order prescriptions from international pharmacies, including those in Canada.
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
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Experts estimate food-related deaths and illness cost the economy about one and a half trillion dollars a year. That's like a second defense budget, and then some.
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How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.
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A Crested Caracara spent a month at Wellfleet’s Duck Harbor, drawing birders from all over, then vanished. Then one flapped across the windshield on the way to Red River Beach in Harwich.
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The famous crested caracara has been seen in Wellfleet in recent days. What could the future hold for this lost bird?
The Point
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
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How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.
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The famous crested caracara has been seen in Wellfleet in recent days. What could the future hold for this lost bird?
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A review of this week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists.
NPR Stories
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Nneka Ogwumike's legacy was never in question winning a championship and league MVP within four years. Negotiating the largest collective bargaining agreement in pro sports for the WNBA ensures it.
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Men and women across India are being paid to record themselves doing domestic jobs as developers train AI robots to do household chores.
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NPR's science podcast Short Wave brings us stories about the hunting habits of ancient sea monsters, the microbiome of long COVID patients, and how elephant carcasses replenish the savannah.
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President Trump announced that the Fort Hood attacker's execution will not be livestreamed. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with New Yorker journalist Dexter Filkins, who witnessed a public execution.
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More than a year into a declared ceasefire in Gaza — and three years into the war — Israel still hasn't allowed foreign media independent access to Gaza.