This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things. (Image credit: Matthew Coughlin for NPR)
This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things. (Image credit: Matthew Coughlin for NPR)
The remarks contrast with Border Czar Tom Homan's softer messaging earlier this year, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officials in Minneapolis. (Image credit: Brendan Smialowski)
The remarks contrast with Border Czar Tom Homan's softer messaging earlier this year, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officials in Minneapolis. (Image credit: Brendan Smialowski)
The vast majority of Americans — 8 in 10 — say there should be age caps for members of Congress, as well as term limits, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll. (Image credit: Allison Robbert)
The vast majority of Americans — 8 in 10 — say there should be age caps for members of Congress, as well as term limits, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll. (Image credit: Allison Robbert)
Across six locations in Indonesia, NPR spoke with locals about how nickel mining is changing the land and daily life. It's brought jobs, but also concerns about environmental damage and public health. (Image credit: Claire Harbage)
Across six locations in Indonesia, NPR spoke with locals about how nickel mining is changing the land and daily life. It's brought jobs, but also concerns about environmental damage and public health. (Image credit: Claire Harbage)
Americans Will Foot The Bill For Germany's New Drug Price Controls Authored by Drew Johnson via PJMedia.com, Germany just found a new way to lower its own healthcare costs: make Americans pay more. In late April, German policymakers proposed changes that cap spending growth, restrict care, and force drugmakers to provide steep discounts. These changes are supposed to save Germany money. But drugma...
Americans Will Foot The Bill For Germany's New Drug Price Controls Authored by Drew Johnson via PJMedia.com, Germany just found a new way to lower its own healthcare costs: make Americans pay more. In late April, German policymakers proposed changes that cap spending growth, restrict care, and force drugmakers to provide steep discounts. These changes are supposed to save Germany money. But drugmakers still need to recoup the high costs of research and development. When a country like Germany suppresses the prices it pays for innovative medicines, those costs don't disappear — they simply shift elsewhere. And because many other wealthy countries use similar price controls, that cost burden is increasingly falling on the United States. The global imbalance is already stark. American patients generate roughly three-quarters of global pharmaceutical profits despite accounting for just a quarter of global GDP. In effect, the United States is underwriting much of the world's drug innovation while patients abroad pay far less for the same treatments. President Trump has spent months trying to end this freeloading by pressing other countries to pay fair value for new treatments — and he shouldn't let Germany get away with refusing to cooperate. Foreign mooching off American medical innovation is a real and longstanding problem. Wealthy governments around the world — and especially in Europe — set drug prices by decree, effectively refusing to pay manufacturers fair value for treatments they spend years, sometimes decades, developing. As a result, drugmakers disproportionately rely on revenue from the United States to sustain research and development. While patients abroad often pay cut-rate prices, Americans pay far more for the same meds. That imbalance is fundamentally unfair. Of course, America can't simply stop paying for innovation. If U.S. leaders copied other countries' price-control tactics — as Democrats have often suggested — companies would struggle to earn retu...
Retirement planning isn't just about saving money. You also need to know about how much you'll spend each year and create a safe withdrawal strategy to help your savings last the rest of your life. You can get a rough idea of your retirement costs by looking at your current expenses, but you also have to watch out for a few little-known rules that could trip you up. Ensure you understand the follo...
Retirement planning isn't just about saving money. You also need to know about how much you'll spend each year and create a safe withdrawal strategy to help your savings last the rest of your life. You can get a rough idea of your retirement costs by looking at your current expenses, but you also have to watch out for a few little-known rules that could trip you up. Ensure you understand the following three things before you leave the workforce, so you don't pay more in retirement than you have to. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Hong Kong authorities have urged the public to stop using a certain model of Zwilling electric kettle over concerns that the handle may detach, posing a risk of scalding. The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department on Thursday issued a safety recall for the kettle (model 53005). Consumers should contact the supplier, Cheong Hing (1917) Company Limited, at 2687 5879 to arrange a refund. The s...
Hong Kong authorities have urged the public to stop using a certain model of Zwilling electric kettle over concerns that the handle may detach, posing a risk of scalding. The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department on Thursday issued a safety recall for the kettle (model 53005). Consumers should contact the supplier, Cheong Hing (1917) Company Limited, at 2687 5879 to arrange a refund. The supplier warned that, in a small number of cases, the kettle’s handle may loosen or break,...
Hong Kong police are investigating an allegation that a four-year-old boy was indecently assaulted at an international school in Stanley, with the institution saying its security footage showed “no evidence of any wrongdoing” on the day of the suspected incident. A source said on Wednesday that the International Montessori School kindergarten pupil complained to his family that his buttocks were s...
Hong Kong police are investigating an allegation that a four-year-old boy was indecently assaulted at an international school in Stanley, with the institution saying its security footage showed “no evidence of any wrongdoing” on the day of the suspected incident. A source said on Wednesday that the International Montessori School kindergarten pupil complained to his family that his buttocks were sore on April 17 after his mother picked him up from school. His father, who suspected that the child...