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Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model for all gene therapies being developed.

Building a social media brand has helped enrich players. But constant harassment — fueled in part by sports gambling — has come to outweigh potential income. Now, staying "regular" is the goal.

Recreational fishing for the species is tightly regulated.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

The Lions safety shared a social post, saying he's OK and thanking people for their support after he was taken off the field in an ambulance late in a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons.

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

A week of heavy rain and severe storms continues tonight in much of the Carolinas. Tropical Storm Chantal was the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, damaging much of central North Carolina and leaving many without clean drinking water.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

Spring brings lots to look at in the Adirondack Mountains and the concentration required for trail running means runners can't help but appreciate Spring's beauty.