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When a physician’s ‘noble’ reassurance leads to a patient’s unsought treatment
When a doctor tells a patient that his or her symptoms are normal within some given context, the patient may ignore the contextualization and only hear “You’re normal.” As shown in a new study, the partially received message can be a problem.
What to know about perimenopause and menopause
Discussing the transition, symptoms and treatments available for people going through menopause or perimenopause.
5 Laptops More Powerful Than The Xbox Series X
Some of the laptops that outperform an Xbox Series X include the MSI Thin 15, Acer Nitro V 16, Lenovo LOQ 15, Maingear Super 16, and Maingear Ultima 18.
Health officials look for swine flu after pig dies at fair
Health officials are telling anyone who had contact with the pigs at the Kent County Youth Fair last week to watch out for symptoms of swine flu.
Experts Talk Postpartum Psychosis Symptoms and Diagnosis Amid Lindsay Clancy Trial
Whether Lindsay Clancy was suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children is central to her defense. Her Massachusetts murder trial is ongoing.
Beloved bald eagle Jackie dies after health battle and 'critical' illness
Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle of Big Bear Valley, has died after a weekslong health battle.
Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.
HRS: Epic Discount for tech and entertainment
Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina News, Weather, Traffic and Sports.
HRS: "ICE - A Story of Love, Crime and Politics"
Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina News, Weather, Traffic and Sports.
AbCellera women’s health data top ‘most aggressive upside scenario,’ putting Astellas and Bayer on notice
AbCellera has reported phase 2 results “beyond even the most aggressive upside scenario” that its CEO dared to consider, boosting the biotech’s chances of challenging Astellas and Bayer for a women’s health market. The phase 2 clinical trial compared ABCL635, an antibody targeting NK3R, to placebo in patients with hot flashes caused by menopause. Investigators enrolled 92 postmenopausal women experiencing a mean of about 10 moderate or severe hot flashes per day. By Week 4, the number of moderate or severe hot flashes had fallen by a mean of 8.8 on ABCL635 and by 3.5 on placebo. That statistically significant, placebo-adjusted reduction of 5.3 hit the trial’s primary endpoint. The level of efficacy also cleared the bar set by existing drugs. While cross-trial comparisons can be misleading, AbCellera CEO Carl Hansen, Ph.D., had seen enough to start hyping the program. “We now view ABCL635 as a potential best-in-class non-hormonal therapy with strong differentiation against approved NK3R competitors across all important dimensions, including efficacy, safety, dosing and convenience,” Hansen said on a Monday morning conference call with investors to discuss the data. “We believe ABCL635 is now a highly de-risked program.” Last week, Hansen used AbCellera’s earnings call to set expectations for readout, with the CEO defining success as a clean safety profile and efficacy comparable to the two approved small molecules. The data vaulted over that bar. Astellas linked (PDF) one of the small molecules, Veozah, to placebo-adjusted reductions in hot flash frequency of 2.1 and 2.6 at Week 4 of its two phase 3 trials. Bayer reported (PDF) placebo-adjusted reductions of 3.04 and 3.29 at Week 4 of pivotal studies for its small molecule, Lynkuet. At 5.3, the placebo-adjusted reduction in AbCellera’s trial comfortably cleared the standard set by the incumbents. Veozah and Lynkuet came to market based on evidence of their ability to reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes. AbCellera’s phase 2 study covered both endpoints, with the Canadian biotech reporting a mean reduction in severity of 1.4 points at Week 4 on ABCL635, compared to 0.3 points for placebo. Again, the placebo-adjusted result compares favorably to data on Veozah and Lynkuet. Analysts shared Hansen’s enthusiasm for the data. The phase 2 results “firmly validate ABCL635 as a potentially best-in-class treatment,” BMO Capital Markets analysts said in a note to investors Monday. ABCL635’s apparent efficacy edge “is likely attributable to the higher dosing/target engagement the asset is able to reach vs. the oral agents due to its wider therapeutic index,” the analysts added. The analysts, who model $2.3 billion in unadjusted peak sales for ABCL635, flagged the safety profile as another positive of the phase 2 readout. While Veozah carries a boxed warning for liver damage, nobody on ABCL635 in the phase 2 trial had elevated liver enzymes or bilirubin values. If replicated in phase 3, the lack of a liver signal could allow approval without the monitoring requirements imposed on Veozah. Investors appeared equally enthused, sending AbCellera's stock up 32% to $9.21 in premarket trading Monday from a Friday closing price of $6.93. Next, AbCellera will collect the Week 12 data and talk to its advisors about further development. The results open up “a wide variety of possibilities of how we might take this forward into phase 3 studies to truly maximize the value of the asset and make sure that ABCL635 is able to demonstrate its differentiation potential,” Sarah Noonberg, M.D., Ph.D., AbCellera’s chief medical officer, told investors.
The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store
Game store Aptoide is now available through Google’s own Android storefront in the US.
Google is finally letting a rival app store onto the Play Store
Aptoide Games is coming to Google Play in the US, giving Android users an easier way to try an alternative gaming app store.
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Malicious Solidity Pro VS Code extensions steal crypto wallets, API keys, SSH keys, and developer tokens, then exfiltrate the data via Telegram.
Bronchiectasis: How To Manage Your Mental Health and Stay Connected
If daily symptoms and flares take their toll on your mental health, you’re not alone. A pulmonologist shares how to cope and manage.
Kawhi Leonard's Latest Announcement Sparks Debate During Investigation
The superstar is the topic of discussion for one of the biggest scandals in NBA history, but that wasn't stopping his offseason plans.
Jackie's care team shares health update on beloved bald eagle
Jackie, the bald eagle followed by thousands online, remains critically ill and \
Jackie the eagle’s health extremely serious despite small improvement
Jackie the bald eagle from Big Bear Lake remains in critical condition at the Ojai Raptor Center despite minor bloodwork improvements.
West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in West Haven, officials say
Most people with West Nile virus do not have symptoms, health officials said.
Health expert sounds alarm over rising outbreaks
NYU Langone gastroenterologist Dr. David Bernstein analyzes the Cyclospora and Salmonella outbreaks linked to contaminated produce. He details key symptoms, infection sources and essential food safety tips.
Businesses evacuated during gas leak in Virginia Beach
Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina News, Weather, Traffic and Sports.
New 140W Touchscreen Travel Adapter For Smart Tech On The Move
The Epicka Pulse Duo Smart Travel Charger can repace a pile of power bricks. One charger and power adapter to replace all those separate ones for your laptop and phone.
Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible. While dinosaurs kept mammals from becoming large, small mammals may have returned the favor by occupying ecological niches that could otherwise have supported mouse-sized dinosaurs.
Hong Kong’s elderly risk ‘hidden malnutrition’. Expert tips on staying healthy
Many elderly people suffer from severe, unseen nutrient deficiencies. Experts describe the reasons, the signs and how to address it.
Editorial: Trump admits his funding decisions driven by politics, revenge
Governing in such a manner is contemptible and contradictory to the founding principles that Americans celebrated on Independence Day this year.
FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows representation of cryptocurrencies
FILE PHOTO: Representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration taken September 10, 2025.
Fintech That Soared on Trump Sells Core Business for $12 Million
A virtually unknown fintech that catapulted into the headlines and cracked a $1 billion market value after signing a deal with the Trump family’s crypto platform last year has sold its core business for about $12 million.
East Hampton residents cite health worries amid battery plant fire investigation
The town supervisor called on the battery plant operator to adopt safety upgrades or risk a shutdown.
Health officials warn of new measles exposure site at Kaiser Mt. Scott in Clackamas
Oregon and Clackamas County officials flag a new measles exposure site at Kaiser Permanente Mt. Scott in Clackamas. Visitors there Aug. 6 from 1:35 to 3:44 p.m. should check vaccines and monitor symptoms.
One of these Googlebook leaks is not like the other
New images of two upcoming Googlebook models have surfaced — but some of them don't look quite right to us.
I built Canada’s largest crypto company. But the business climate here made selling to Robinhood inevitable
The CEO of WonderFi says that he sold because Canada's burdensome regulatory climate makes international expansion out of reach.
Kevin O’Leary, aka ‘Mr. Wonderful,’ on crypto, winning in AI and 3 things all business owners must know
What Kevin O’Leary learned from Steve Jobs: You only need to get three things done every day. Just three.
AI found a weakness in one of the world's most studied encryption systems — is your data under threat?
No, AI hasn't cracked the encryption protecting your bank account. But experts say Anthropic's latest research could change how tomorrow's cryptography is tested.
'Banks Make It Hard'—Wall Street's 36 Million Small Business Problem
Novo co-founder Michael Rangel on why big banks priced out 36 million US small businesses, and why his own fintech still cannot bank crypto companies.
New creative hub uptown draws hundreds of entrepreneurs, lands first office tenant (PHOTOS)
Sparkhouse Uptown, a 20,000-square-foot creative hub in Charlotte, has attracted hundreds of entrepreneurs since opening in June at 500 N. Tryon St.
Sanofi suspends chronic lung disease phase 2 study, tied to ‘strategic business reasons’
Sanofi halted a phase 2 trial testing a monoclonal antibody, SAR445399, in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, Fierce Biotech has learned. The trial, which began only back in April, was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to measure the reduction in mucus plug score following treatment with SAR445399 compared with placebo in adults aged 18 to 80 years with NCFB, a chronic lung disease. The trial was officially reported as halted on July 29, the day before Sanofi’s second-quarter earnings call. The decision to pause the trial was made “as part of a company-wide portfolio review for strategic business reasons,” and not due to safety concerns, a Sanofi spokesperson told Fierce. The move to pause the NCFB trial comes during a trying time for Sanofi following a year filled with a series of trial fails. In February, the French pharma ousted CEO Paul Hudson and appointed Merck KGaA leader Belén Garijo, M.D., Ph.D., to steer the ship. Since then, Garijo has been doing a deep dive on correcting the company’s strewn R&D and clinical strategies. On July 24, Sanofi scrapped amlitelimab for atopic dermatitis, despite its lore as being a potential $5 billion blockbuster. During its second-quarter report, the company abandoned two more assets, balinatunfib and itepekimab, following failed trial results in psoriasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respectively. SAR445399, only first revealed by Sanofi in 2023, is an anti-interleukin-1 receptor 3 monoclonal antibody developed to block the interleukin 1, 33, and 36 cytokine pathways. These pathways can be important in chronic immune-related dermatologic diseases, such as atopic dermatitis and hidradenitis suppurativa, as well as respiratory conditions, such as NCFB. Related Sanofi’s new CEO ‘looking deeply’ at late-stage pipeline as clinical clearout continues NCFB affects roughly half a million people in the U.S., with a global incidence of greater than one million cases. In August 2025, Insmed received FDA approval for Brinsupri, a DPP1 inhibitor targeting neutrophil activation, for treatment of NCFB in adults and kids ages 12 and older. The British biotech Infex Therapeutics showed promising NCFB phase 2a data using their monoclonal antibody, INFEX702, which acts by disabling Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacteria known to be a major pathogen of NCFB. Sanofi is currently running a separate phase 2 study testing SAR445399 as a potential treatment for the inflammatory skin condition hidradenitis suppurativa.
Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount
Save a bit of cash on a new laptop for the school year.
Huawei confirms MateBook Pro pricing, Kirin X90 Plus and Harmony OS laptop starts at $1,480
Huawei’s 970-gram MateBook Pro returns with the Kirin X90 Plus and higher prices. The base model costs around $1,480, while the top option exceeds $2,000.
THC medication made PTSD nightmares disappear for more than a third of patients
A prescription form of THC helped many people with PTSD escape recurring trauma-related nightmares, with more than one-third reporting that the nightmares disappeared completely after ten weeks. The results could point toward a long-awaited treatment for one of PTSD’s most distressing and stubborn symptoms.
Wickliffe optometrist celebrates 50 years in business
Dr. Sid Savitt has now been in business in Wickliffe for 50 years as an optometrist at Savitt’s Optometry. Located at 29610 Euclid Ave., Savitt said his practice has been a “wonderful ride” since he started it in 1976. As his mom and dad…
Huawei launches MateBook Fold (2026) with 18-inch foldable OLED display and Kirin X90 Plus chip
Huawei has officially unveiled the second-generation MateBook Fold Ultimate Design. The premium foldable laptop features an 18-inch dual-layer OLED display, the new Kirin X90 Plus processor, HarmonyOS 6.1, and support for a new AI-powered M-Pencil stylus.
The Beauty Of Settled Science
Commenters convinced me I made a subtle mis-step in my framing of Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine. My framing emphasized that social priming studies had failed to replicate, but that many other subfields of psychology hadn’t. This naturally led commenters to point to failed replications in other subfields. Although none of these were as bad as social priming, few or none were entirely problem-free. Instead of emphasizing the difference between social priming and other subfields, I should have emphasized the difference between settled science and novel research. Here are some of my favorite psychology findings: The brain is sculpted by reinforcement learning, and a key driver of this learning is a prediction-error-based algorithm located in the nucleus accumbens and implemented through dopamine. Psychedelic drugs exert their effects through 5-HT2A receptors, pointing to a role for these receptors in some sort of construct like the balance between priors and new evidence. Certain cognitive functions are localized to certain brain areas (for example, impulse control to the frontal lobes; linguistic structure to Broca’s area, linguistic meaning to Wernicke’s area. But injure one of these areas, or render a certain function useless (eg a blind person having no more use for their visual cortex), and these mappings can gradually shift - suggesting that neurons are general-purpose compute whose specialization is a contingent fact about convenience and efficiency rather than a necessity. Most personality traits and general capabilities are about 50% genetic and 50% random, with little role for family environment or childhood history, with a few notable exceptions like partisan preference. Recent research complicates this story, but the further you go from this basic picture, the gnarlier the chains of indirect causation you require. Neurons fire together in “brain waves”, whose exact frequency corresponds with the character of consciousness; These divide neurons into natural subpopulations and linked graphs. The gamma rhythm corresponds surprisingly well to items in conscious awareness. GABA receptors seem to be involved in something like relaxation. By hitting different GABA receptors in different ways, you can modulate the exact type of relaxation you produce. Hitting GABA-A directly is too powerful and can cause dangerous levels of sedation, but allosteric modulation of GABA is an incredibly fruitful strategy that underlies drugs from benzos to barbituates to alcohol. If you know your GABA-A subunits, you can target specific subtypes of relaxation; for example, Ambien hits GABA-A1 and induces sleep. Memory divides somewhat fuzzily into bins of immediate-sensory, short-term, and long-term, with separate retrieval and storage functions, and separate systems for declarative vs. procedural learning. These can be harmed selectively, usually by hippocampal injury, so that some patients can remember their life stories but not form new long-term memories, or learn new skills like bike-riding but not new facts. The exact substrate of memory is unclear but seems to involve new synaptic connections between neurons in at least some way. The ability of modern psychology and psychiatry to treat mental illness is real but limited. SSRIs work for half or slightly fewer than half of patients; antipsychotics work with extreme side effects; benzodiazpines work but produce addiction and tolerance in many (not all) people. Most supplements are stuck in Poor Quality Study Replication Crisis Hell, but melatonin and l-theanine stand out as especially promising. Psychotherapy works with moderate effect size, but (with a few exceptions) seems to be more about the relationship with the provider than the details of the therapy itself. Mental hospitalization can sometimes defuse immediate crises but work less well than mental hospitals would like, with some studies showing overall negative effects. Schizophrenia is mostly genetic, but risk also increases with prenatal infection (especially rubella) and obstetric complications; there is suggestive evidence for roles of social stress and drug use (with psychedelics and marijuana making things worse, and nicotine if anything making things better). Bipolar and schizophrenia are so closely linked on a pathophysiological level that it seems like they might be the same disease; on the clinical level, they do seem to follow two separate courses/prognoses but can sometimes surprise clinicians by eg someone who seemed condemned to permanent schizophrenia unexpectedly recovering. The brain’s native reinforcement learning algorithms cash out in the phenomena of classical and operant conditioning; different reinforcement schedules reinforce at different levels, which can be exploited by bad actors to make especially compelling products (eg slot machines). None of these are immune to doubt. A few are speculative; one or two are genuinely unorthodox. But they’re all a step above one p = 0.049 paper that might not replicate. If they get overturned, they’ll be overturned by the same sort of genuine scientific shift that replaced Ptolemy with Copernicus or Lamarck with Darwin, not some sort of sordid discovery about someone entering random numbers into a spreadsheet. In 2008, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote about The Beauty Of Settled Science: If you only care about scientific issues that are controversial, you will end up with a head stuffed full of garbage. The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science is worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like “General Relativity still governing planetary orbits” or “Phlogiston theory remains false”? So, by the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. “Newsworthy” science is often based on the thinnest of evidence and wrong half the time—if it were not on the uttermost fringes of the scientific frontier, it would not be breaking news. Scientific controversies are problems so difficult that even people who’ve spent years mastering the field can still fool themselves. That’s what makes for the heated arguments that attract all the media attention. Worse, if you aren’t in the field and part of the game, controversies aren’t even fun. Don’t be embarrassed to read elementary science textbooks, either. If you want to pretend to be sophisticated, go find a play to sneer at. If you just want to have fun, remember that simplicity is at the core of scientific beauty [...] A steady diet of science news is bad for you: You are what you eat, and if you eat only science reporting on fluid situations, without a solid textbook now and then, your brain will turn to liquid. Psychology isn’t centrally the new paper in Annals Of Recently-Breaking News saying that an n=5 study showing that large portion sizes increase support for terrorism. Psychology is centrally ideas like brain waves, GABA receptors, reinforcement learning, twin studies, and connectionism. People who think differently are worrying too much about BREAKING NEWS!!!, and should stop. The key distinction isn’t “recent research in social psychology” vs. “recent research in cognitive/bio/behavioral psychology”, as my essay last week unfortunately implied. It’s recent research in general vs. the deposit of settled science, battle-tested hypotheses, and carefully-earmarked speculation. And part of the reason social priming in particular was such a disaster was that it defied that heuristic, building itself up over hundreds of studies until it approached or even entered the pantheon of settled science - before collapsing (5-HTTLPR was also sort of like this). This isn’t a claim that settled science is always right - Freud was “settled science” for a long time - just that there’s an intuitive distinction between the level of credence you should have in the existence of power posing vs. the existence of Broca’s Area. (I compounded this error by calling the last post “Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine”, which suggested I was talking about the new research rather than the settled science. I actually meant to distinguish between research-psychology-the-field vs. clinical-psychology-aka-therapy, but this framing unintentionally pushed against the point I wanted to make) Some commenters on the previous article understood this point, but challenged its weight. It’s very cool, they said, to know how many neurons are in which brain lobe, but the main way that Psychology affected their lives was through bad clickbait studies used to buttress dumb policies; some p = 0.049 study says that exposure to microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel into raisins, and now their company has to implement punitive DEI or be sued for hazardous work conditions. I won’t dispute this as an accurate description of how the sausage gets made, but it’s worth examining the trains of thought that connect this observation to a campaign against psychology in general: The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad, and I don’t have good heuristics for distinguishing dumb woke psychology from other psychology, so I’m going to assume it’s all wrong and bad. The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad; it seems useful to punish/discredit psychology as a whole to assist my campaign against it, so for propaganda purposes I will try to discredit psychology as a whole. To people in the first camp, my response is: come on, your heuristics aren’t that bad. “Microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel up like raisins” is in the woke category; “the hippocampal theta rhythm seems to be associated with both memory and pathfinding, suggesting an unexpected yet surprisingly compelling relationship between the two” is in the not-woke category, don’t play dumb here. To people in the second camp, my response is: deliberately exaggerated propaganda campaigns are bad and this is a confession, not an excuse. Inability to view science through anything but a political lens was what got us into this problem; doubling down on it is a temporary solution but a recipe for permanent disaster. If you pronounce entire fields of science to be acceptable collateral damage in your campaign against bad political actors, you will alienate not just scientists but patients, clinicians, and general lovers of truth. Instead, you can say the thing you mean - that woke partisans shouldn’t try to occupy and exploit the otherwise-noble science of psychology for their own political gain - and wage the same campaign with a halo rather than a comic-book-villain goatee. From the font of oracular wisdom that is Weird Sun Twitter: [ Vessel Of Spirit@VesselOfSpirit i love you all conditionally but i love the good part of you unconditionally. even if it becomes a very small part 2:11 AM · Jan 22, 2015 1 Reply · 5 Reposts · 29 Likes ](https://x.com/VesselOfSpirit/status/558084551772471298) This is how I feel about psychology1, too, but with a touch more optimism. The good part of psychology is enormous, a hoard of endless treasures. You just have to look past the headlines! 1 To play devil’s advocate - should one always be so magnamious? Astrology? Phrenology? These seem different in that their entire orientation was flawed from the start; they didn’t simply fail to find the correct constellation-personality connections, the whole project of searching for connections between constellations and personality was doomed from the start. More difficult might be asking the same question about education research, which is notoriously bad. I don’t know enough about education research to know if there’s some settled science of correct and enlightening results lurking in the background beyond the day-to-day froth of poorly-conducted and politically-motivated studies. I think if it’s 90% bad, 10% good, it’s correct to call it bad as a compact way of communicating a useful truth; I think psychology is better than that, but admit it’s a tough judgment call.
Our first look at the ASUS Googlebook shows Google’s laptop plans taking shape
The ASUS Googlebook CX9406 has leaked, revealing another Aluminium OS laptop with Google’s signature Glowbar and dedicated keyboard controls.
FDA's Draft MDUFA VI Commitment Letter: What It Means for AI and Digital Health
On July 7, FDA posted its draft commitment letter for the sixth MDUFA reauthorization (MDUFA VI). The letter outlines how the FDA will fund and operate its device review program for fiscal years 2028 through 2032. Under MDUFA, industry actors pay user fees and, in return, FDA commits to measurable review performance goals, such as … Continued
Best Buy’s back-to-school sale takes up to 50% off laptops, ANC headphones and more
Best Buy has joined in on the back-to-school savings with one of its best sales of the year across laptops, headphones, printers and small home appliances.
Rabbit fever cases detected in US. How to check for symptoms
Cases of tularemia, or rabbit fever, have been detected in the United States. Here are symptoms and where the rare disease has been reported.
Scientists Reveal Hidden Structure of a Quantum Fluid
The advance establishes a new solid-state platform for studying high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates in semiconductor devices, and could one day advance quantum information science, quantum simulations, coherent optoelectronics, and future exciton-based devices.
Cardiovascular health spending has tripled, but death rates are rising in major Hampton Roads cities
By Yiqing Wang/WHRO Cardiovascular care has become more advanced over the past two decades, giving doctors new ways to prevent deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other conditions. But a new national study found those advances have come with rapidly rising costs while improvements in cardiovascular death rates have largely stalled. The analysis, published in the Journal […]
Quantum Computing: What IT and Business Leaders Need to Know
Discover how quantum computing is reshaping AI and security, why post-quantum cryptography can't wait, and how to build a quantum-ready workforce.
Scientists Reveal Hidden Structure of a Quantum Fluid
The advance establishes a new solid-state platform for studying high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates in semiconductor devices, and could one day advance quantum information science, quantum simulations, coherent optoelectronics, and future exciton-based devices.
Early TAVR for patients with asymptomatic severe AS may save money in the long run
Treating asymptomatic patients with TAVR may cost more at first, but it appears to be a wise financial decision as time goes on.
Former Raptor Chris Bosh Sends Encouraging Message To Victor Wembanyama
Bosh, who has dealt with blood clots, extended his advice to Wembanyama, who has also dealt with the diagnosis.
Ojai Raptor Center shares health setback for Jackie the Big Bear bald eagle
The veterinary team caring for Big Bear bald eagle Jackie after she was injured in a scrap with another eagle shared a health update Monday on her recovery. Bloodwork showed a drop in packed cell volume (PCV), indicating her anemia has worsened since the eagle’s last health update, according to the Ojai Raptor Center. Anemia is a serious medical condition…
Can Microsoft Really Make Windows 11 Suck Less on Weak PCs?
The RAM apocalypse could be a gift to cheap PCs, if you can consider any laptop today ‘cheap.’
Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months earlier than previously stated
Admission may undermine Farage’s account of circumstances surrounding £5m gift from crypto billionaire
Lenovo Googlebook leaks reveal a laptop and 2-in-1 tablet
Leaks show lighting bars and a new G key.
This Is How Much Fiber to Eat Daily to Prevent Constipation
In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a doctor reveals how much fiber to eat daily to prevent and treat constipation, and the best whole food sources.
Black voters, divided on progressives, are pivotal in Michigan Senate primary
A disruptor or a pragmatist? In Tuesday's contest between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, Democrats weigh whether to remake the political system or work within it.
Grants expand Hampton Roads apprenticeships
With a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the Hampton Roads Workforce Development Council is offering local employers up to $30,000 to
Could a change in diet improve mental health? Metabolic psychiatry, explained.
Patients rave about how the keto diet has helped ease mental health symptoms. The data are limited, but encouraging.
Business to permanently close following fatal Mathews County crash
Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina News, Weather, Traffic and Sports.
Razer Blade 18 Review: Biggest (but Not Heaviest), Baddest Gaming Laptop Money Can Buy
And it will take a lot of money to buy.
Laboratory exposure and poor diet linked to health symptoms in young scientists
A research team has found that frequent exposure to laboratory chemicals and low consumption of antioxidant-rich foods are jointly associated with a greater likelihood of self-reported health symptoms among young scientists. Survey participants who frequently handled chemicals and consumed few antioxidant-rich foods had nearly three times the odds of reporting fatigue, headaches, pallor, or easy bruising compared with their less-exposed, better-nourished peers. The study also showed that stronge
I tested 8 MacBook alternatives: Here’s what beat Apple
I replaced my MacBook with the top Windows laptops.
Valve releases Lepton Android layer on Steam as Steam Frame launch countdown begins
Valve has released Lepton and FEX publicly through Steam ahead of the Steam Frame launch. Lepton runs Android games in Linux containers.
Panama: Haemophilus influenzae meningitis case reported in Veraguas Health Region
The Veraguas Health Region, located in the central-western region of Panama, confirmed a case of meningitis caused by the Haemophilus influenzae bacteria in a 12-year-old student from La Primavera School, diagnosed on July 29. The patient remains hospitalized, is receiving appropriate treatment, and is in stable clinical condition. The regional health director of Veraguas, Xavier A. Torres Domínguez, reported that, once the diagnosis was confirmed, the Ministry of Health (Minsa), in coordination with the Social Security Fund (CSS), immediately activated the epidemiological investigation and health response protocols established for this type of event. Canada: Haemophilus influenzae type B outbreak in Calgary As part of the actions implemented, the Epidemiology teams carried out the identification and monitoring of the patient’s close contacts, applying the corresponding preventive measures to reduce the risk of transmission and safeguard the health of the educational community. Health authorities explained that meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterial disease that requires timely medical attention. In that regard, they urged the population to immediately seek medical attention if they experience symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiff neck, vomiting, drowsiness, or altered mental status. They also reiterated that vaccination is the main preventive measure against this disease, and therefore called on parents and guardians to verify that their children’s immunization schedules are complete, in accordance with the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Outbreak News Today is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
Hampton Roads Small Business Development Center, Portsmouth Partnership join forces to grow small businesses
Amber Kostka, an owner of The Stockpot restaurant, is joining the effort as a business adviser.
Minnesota's ban on crypto ATMs goes into effect after citizens report losing nearly $1 million in scams
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Chile declares health alert for hantavirus
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