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From surfing to farming: award-winning shorebreak wave photographer Clark Little and his family just launched farm tours at their plumeria farm on Oahus North Shore.

A new drug runs into red tape from insurers, a long history of bias against sickle-cell patients, and debate over data.

And other stories from the stranger side of life

Women with sickle cell disease have high-risk pregnancies with significant potential for health crises and death; physicians are concerned that tighter restrictions on abortions may compromise their care.

Nearly 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with Long COVID. They test negative for the virus but report brain fog, exhaustion, depression and other symptoms. No one knows what causes this condition, and there’s no FDA-approved treatment, but one study suggests pure oxygen could be useful. Sandy Hausman has that story.

United Furniture Industries is laying off nearly 300 employees from its High Point and Winston-Salem facilities.

True West Magazine The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time girls.  Bob Drury and Tom Clavin make an excellent writing team and have found success in recent years with their creative collaboration, including their best seller The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (2013). Most recently they have tackled together the American Revolution with Valley...

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