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If a doctor's office is like Blockbuster, Hims feels more like Netflix. It's a way to skip the long waits and crowds and get generic Viagra, hair growth treatment and other medicine and vitamins with minimal interaction with a health care provider — for better and worse.

Perspective: Direct-To-Consumer Medicine Can Be Quick And Discreet, But What's Lost?

If you happily order your contact lenses online, why not get drugs for migraines or erectile dysfunction that way, too? Be careful, a medical student warns. Your "simple" self-diagnosis may be wrong.

A visitor to the Harvard School of Public Health's mock safe injection site checks out the items on the demonstration table set up underneath a tent on the quad near the medical school in Boston on April 30, 2018.

Justice Department Promises Crackdown On Supervised Injection Sites

A standoff is heating up between the Trump administration and local leaders who are trying to open facilities where people can use opioids under the eye of medical staff.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke at a campaign rally for Sen. Martha McSally in 2018. He and President Trump welcomed reports Thursday that they didn't talk on the phone ahead of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

Trumps Exult Following Reports Of No Phone Contact Ahead Of 2016 Russia Meeting

Donald Trump Jr. did not call his father from his cellphone as he was arranging a Trump Tower meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to new reports.

Asaati Nadi (left) and Hamida Ibrahim at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C., on June 15.

Favorite Visual Stories Of 2018

NPR's list of memorable visual stories includes coverage of the 2018 midterm election, migrant caravans, Puerto Rico's hurricane recovery and, of course, a musical insect invasion.

A poster at the entrance of the Laurel Highlands Council headquarters in Pittsburgh shows a young girl in a Cub Scouts uniform. The program for younger kids can include co-ed troops, but older kids will have single-sex troops.

Welcoming Girls, Boy Scouts Program Is Now Scouts BSA

Younger girls have been able to join Cub Scouts for nearly a year, and more than 77,000 joined. Now, older girls 11-17 have a path to earn the organization's highest rank.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen speak together as they walk across the South Lawn of the White House in August.

Trump Nominates Kirstjen Nielsen As Next Homeland Security Secretary

Kirstjen Nielsen currently serves as John Kelly's principal deputy chief of staff in the White House and was also Kelly's chief of staff when he recently led the Department of Homeland Security.

President Trump is announcing new tariffs against China on Thursday.

Trump Orders Stiff Tariffs On China, In Hopes Of Cutting Trade Gap By $50 Billion

Trump ordered stiff new tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports in response to what the White House calls China's unfair treatment of U.S. technology.

A scene from MIDSOMER MURDERS Season 12, featuring John Nettles as DCI Barnaby and Jason Hughes as DS Jones.

MIDSOMER MURDERS: Season 12 (Season Finale This Week!)

Airs Thursdays, Sept. 26 - Nov. 7, 2019 from 10-11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV (10:30 p.m. start only on Oct. 31)

This July 17, 2018 photo shows wrapped plastic straws at a bubble tea cafe in San Francisco.

California Seeks To Be First State To Limit Plastic Straws

If you want a straw with your drink, you soon may have to ask for it at California restaurants.

A screenshot of Liang Xiangyi, a financial news reporter, who was so disgusted by a fellow reporter's softball question to a government official at the National People's Congress that she was caught on live television rolling her eyes. The moment went viral.

10 Global Stories You Loved In 2018

Some of the most-read stories by NPR's international reporters looked at endangered rhinos, livid Canadians, Mexico's response to migrants and a show-stealing eye roll at a Chinese political event.

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