A Texas pharmacist says his independent pharmacy gets paid $50 less for the same prescription than a pharmacy owned by a drug-pricing middleman. New federal transparency rules around pharmacy benefit managers promise to expose such arrangements, but will they mean cheaper prices for patients? WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports.
Hollywood has long cast AI as the villain. Now researchers are exploring whether stories can train it to be the hero instead. WORLD economics correspondent Lauren Smyth talks with an economist who envisions a future with greater prosperity instead of mass unemployment.
Josh Wood | Study shows that freezing embryos increases cancer risk, and we won’t know the full, long-term danger for years
Stephen Davis has spent decades collecting and pressing seaweed along the California coast, and his archive now lets scientists compare today’s specimens with samples from the 1970s as ocean temperatures change. WORLD’s Jenny Rough reports from Malibu, California.
