“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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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.
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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Actor and author Nick Offerman reflects on a place that shaped him.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jennifer Tiexiera and Mfaz Mohamed Ali, filmmaker and original oratory competitor, about their documentary, Speak, and the importance of speech clubs in schools.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jason Horowitz about his memoir, The Italian Job, and his years spent learning the ropes in Rome and reporting on Italy's biggest stories.
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In this first episode of Your Turn with Allison Aubrey, we explore the science of the flow state with violinist Diane Allen, who lost her flow and then tried to find it again, and also from Dr. Richard Huskey, who studies the flow state and how each of us can find it.