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Patients switching to generic medicines and hard bargaining with drugmakers helped moderate spending on prescription drugs in 2015, according to Express Scripts, a manager of drug benefits.

The Internal Revenue Service will evenly divvy up the amount divorced or legally separated spouses owe if they have to repay an insurance tax credit — unless they agree to a different arrangement.

For decades, the southeast Atlantic coast has been off-limits to oil and gas drilling. But the Obama administration is considering opening up the southeastern seaboard, and the oil industry is ready to start exploring. Environmental groups are dismayed, and so are lots of conservative politicians and business groups, who weigh future oil royalties against the threat to coastal business and tourism, and find oil coming up short.

Key primary states on Tuesday include Florida and Ohio. David B. Cohen of the University of Akron and Adam Goodman of the Republican strategy firm the Victory Group weigh in on the races.

The insurance industry has a lot of open positions, and it's scrambling to fill them. It's targeting millennials, but many simply don't consider insurance as a potential career — or think it's boring.

Bernie Sanders is hoping to change the story of the Democratic race by winning in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. Steve Inskeep talks to Bob Buckhorn, the mayor of Tampa.

Girshman was a leader at many news and professional organizations, including NPR, NBC News, the National Association of Science Writers and Kaiser Health News, which she co-founded.

Hospitals have pushed staff to wash their hands in an effort to curb the spread of dangerous microbes. But patients' hands are infected, too, a study finds, and can spread bugs to other facilities.

Quitting abruptly is more effective, a study finds, even for people who'd rather phase it out gradually.

A revival of the 1963 musical She Loves Me opens Thursday on Broadway. Director Scott Ellis and lyricist Sheldon Harnick (whose Fiddler on the Roof is also back on Broadway) join Fresh Air.