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Mark Kurlansky's The Food of a Younger Land presents a marvelous history of America's gastronomical oddities and antiques; a remembrance of tastes and customs past. Maureen Corrigan has a review.

The Supreme Court has ruled that people injured by drugs may file lawsuits against the manufacturers in state courts, even when the drugs involved had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The ruling came in the case of a guitarist who lost an arm because of a botched anti-nausea injection. She was awarded nearly $7 million in damages by a Vermont jury.

After nearly two dozen car related crashes on Long Island in the month of August, Good Samaritan University Hospital hosted a forum to look for strategies to keep pedestrians safe.

A bite-sized look at what we’re hearing: Joe Ganim won’t get his law license back. Andrew Cuomo can’t get access to sexual harassment records. A Connecticut woman got her hate crime charges dropped after she spat on a Black Lives Matter protestor. Famed forensic expert Henry Lee fabricated evidence. And an update to the Gilgo Beach murders.

Dozens of countries and institutions pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan rebuild from last summer's floods. But most of the pledges are for project loans still in the planning stages.

An analysis of Medicare data finds many cancer patients are getting aggressive care toward the end of life. The intensive approach might not be best for them and adds to the drain on Medicare's budget.

The drug industry's main trade group spent at least $101.2 million in 2009 on advocacy efforts during the contentious health care overhaul debate. A lot of the money went to lobbying and TV ads in favor of the law, but some went to its foes.

Environmental groups in New York are praising the newly passed state budget, saying it will help the environment and projects to support municipalities and increase diversity.

Now researchers in the U.K. are using maps to study variations in the way health services are delivered. The approach, pioneered at Dartmouth in the U.S., shows that the care provided can be quite different even when doctors are paid salaries.

The Earned Income Tax Credit has been embraced by every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama.