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The FDA has approved an RSV drug for babies and toddlers.

Policymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for those with mental illness, especially for Black Americans, who are 2.9 times as likely as white people to be killed by police.

While most pancreatic cancer strikes people in their 70s, one doctor says, "Sometimes patients are in their 40s, 30s and even 20s." In women, a pronounced increase in numbers has been observed, although the numbers are still very small.

After Akeem Simms spent 11 months and his 30th birthday in a Pennsylvania correctional facility for a felony conviction for drug possession with the intent to deliver, the Philadelphia resident said voting was the last thing he was concerned about upon his 2007 release.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Latino artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira ruled the pop charts. But who was that so-called "Latin Explosion" actually for, and what were the business considerations behind it? In the third part of our series exploring crossover in pop music, we examine how this supposed boom turned out to be more of a marketing creation, which evaporated when digital streaming entered the picture. You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.