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Many older people are taking a lot of meds, and some drugs may not be doing them much good. When terminally ill people went off statins, they said they felt better. And it didn't increase their risk.

A majority of people in the U.S. have experienced extreme weather in the last five years, according to a new survey conducted by NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

In an interview with CBS News, the president also said, "I know people that like the Confederate flag, and they're not thinking about slavery."

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Petro Andrushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol's mayor, who says civilians in bomb shelters are running out of food.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates show that in Ohio, the number of people who list their race as white only are decreasing, while all other populations are increasing.

Lean people tend to have many more kinds of intestinal bacteria than obese people. Having too few species, regardless of your weight, appears to increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

A survey of LGBTQ Midwesterners and their families finds they are more likely to receive public assistance than non-LGBTQ people. Caitlin Rooney, a researcher for the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, spoke Tuesday to Cleveland health and nonprofit leaders about poverty in the LGBTQ community. The image of the upper middle class white male gay couple has been shaped by television and movies, said Rooney. The true picture is much different, she said.

One-third of people who have strokes when they're young struggle with disability and loss of independence nine years later, a study finds. About 10 percent of strokes hit people under 50.

The former YouTube star says he wanted his film, Eighth Grade, to take an "emotional inventory" of what today's adolescents are experiencing. Originally broadcast July 18, 2018.

Keret's memoir, The Seven Good Years, spans the time between the birth of his son and the death of his father, who was a Holocaust survivor. Originally broadcast June 16, 2015.