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Health Care September 2, 2023

A Move to Cut Drug Prices Has Patients With Rare Diseases Worried

This article by Markian Hawryluk first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Markian Hawryluk August 30, 2023 For people with cystic fibrosis, like Sabrina Walker, Trikafta has been…

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Health Care February 23, 2023

A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk

This article by Sarah Jane Tribble first appeared in Kaiser Health News, republished with permission. Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News February 22, 2023 A prescription drug that helps Lore…

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Cobb County History December 26, 2024

The automobile comes to Cobb County, but on rough roads

[This is republication of an article originally published in the Courier in June of 2017 edited and slightly expanded] If the first owners of automobiles in Cobb County wanted to…

Smyrna December 26, 2024

A slideshow from Smyrna Memorial Cemetery

Smyrna Memorial Cemetery (photos by Larry Felton Johnson) We at the Courier have been reviving articles and photo albums that were published in the Courier at a time when our…

Cobb County December 26, 2024

North Cobb Regional Library features programs for kids and adults in the New Year

By Kelly Johnson With the New Year offering a modest schedule of events at North Cobb Regional Library (NCRL), its Kids Book Swap and Kids Create programs will provide kids…

Opinion December 26, 2024

What is the question we should be asking with AI?

How AI Could Replace Writers And Artists And When It Won’t By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College At the end of the science fiction thriller “I…

Pets and Pet Adoption December 26, 2024

“I’m Beau, and I’m interviewing for a new family. Would you like to apply?”

The Cobb County Courier’s Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male red/white American pit bull terrier. The following information on this potential…

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drug costs

A Move to Cut Drug Prices Has Patients With Rare Diseases Worried

A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk