British Pop Starlet Charli XCX, the Particularly Grown-Up 21-Year-Old

British pop starlet Charli XCX, the particularly grown-up 21-year-old
"I don't know about where I fit in," Charli (birth name Charlotte Aitchison) tells the Scene via phone from London. … Aitchison's performance at Bonnaroo this summer was a treat: The young women in the audience cleaved from their boyfriends and … Read more on Nashville Scene

Doctors are told to get serious about obesity
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved two more obesity-fighting drugs. And this year, the AMA labeled obesity a disease, a measure intended to get doctors to pay more attention to the problem and prod more insurers to pay for treatments. Read more on Charlotte Observer

Pharma's windfall: The mining of rare diseases
The freedom from competition — coupled with the ability of drugmakers to price drugs however they want — has propelled the treating of rare diseases into the fastest-growing sector of America's prescription-drug system. This growth has accelerated in … Read more on Charlotte Observer