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JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs.The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money, were for a program where drug users exchange dirty needles for clean ones, part of a strategy known as harm reduction. But under a July executive order from President Donald Trump, federal substance abuse grants can’t pay for supplies such as cookers and tourniquets that it says “only facilitate illegal drug…
If you want to build healthier habits in 2026, here’s my advice: Give yourself time. New routines don’t stick overnight. A classic study found that it takes on average 66 days of practicing a new dietary or physical behavior each day before it becomes a habit.You need to make it easy to make it last. So choose one habit and list every barrier that will keep you from hitting the mark. Then pre-solve each one. Is it too cold to go for a jog early in the morning? Find a 30-minute cardio routine on YouTube that you can do in…
Nadine was a top student at her high school in eastern Congo. Then, in April, she was gang-raped by four men as she was gathering firewood for her family.The 17-year-old set off on a frantic search for help – first to her local clinic, where there were no rape kits left, and then to the hospital, where she was told that none of the medication she needed was available. It took her several days to scrape together enough money to travel the few miles to neighboring Uganda for medical care.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and…
As AI displaces jobs, one of the “godfathers of AI” shared the career advice he’d give to his 4-year-old grandson to prepare him for the future.”Work on the beautiful human being that you can become. I think that that part of ourselves will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs,” research scientist Yoshua Bengio said on an episode of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett, posted on December 18.During the one-hour and forty-minute episode, Bengio said that with companies eager to integrate AI into their workflows, it’s only a matter of time before…
NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government data found that the percentage of Americans who read for pleasure during an average day has fallen to 16% in 2023 from 28% in 2004. That includes not just books but audiobooks, e-books and periodicals like magazines.Some people say they’re fatigued from years of assigned reading in school. Others don’t have the time…
A top sales executive at Dell has called employees back into the office five days a week … again.”Effective immediately, all onsite-classified sales team members are expected to be in the RR, NV, and OKC offices five days a week for at least eight hours per day,” Jackie Miller, Dell’s vice president of North American commercial sales, said in an email sent to enterprise sales staff on November 5, which Business Insider has seen.”RR, NV, and OKC” refer to Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, and its offices in Nashville and Oklahoma City, which are sites with a concentration of…
It’s been a hot year for healthcare deals — but some investors are predicting a shift in which startups will capture VC attention next year.2025 saw a welcome surge in healthcare venture funding as investors rushed to back top AI startups. Last December, VCs predicted huge funding rounds for AI scribe startups like Abridge and Ambience Healthcare; indeed, both Abridge and Ambience landed hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding this year.Investors also said in December 2024 that they anticipated a race for those startups to expand beyond AI health scribing into other product lines, like medical coding and…
When freelance writer Sam Hindman sits down to work for a few hours on Sundays, she knows it will be quiet. There will be no pings and requests from her clients, no rush to meet an EOD deadline, and no scrambling. While logging hours on the weekend is typically more associated with overwork than freedom, Hindman says that locking in on a Sunday feels like liberation.”I’m contributing to my future rest by allocating that time in a way that makes sense,” she tells me. By working Sundays, she can justify a mid-morning workout Tuesday class or a long Thursday lunch…
Dec 22 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Monday that a late‑stage trial testing Imfinzi in combination with ceralasertib failed to improve overall survival versus standard treatments in patients with previously treated advanced non‑small cell lung cancer.The trial, called the LATIFY Phase III trial, evaluated 594 patients from more than 20 countries whose disease lacked targetable mutations and had progressed after prior immunotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy.”While we are disappointed by this result, we remain committed to pioneering new medicines to address the urgent need to improve outcomes for patients with lung cancer through our industry-leading portfolio,” said Susan Galbraith, executive vice-president…
The artificial intelligence boom is real — but there’s more to the AI trade than chips alone, according to a credit investor.”This is a super-duper micro cycle that will outlast many investing careers,” said Scott Goodwin, the cofounder and managing partner of Diameter Capital Partners, a quote he attributed to his partner Jonathan Lewinsohn.AI represents what Diameter Capital sees as a long-running, disruptive cycle — but buying the most obvious winners isn’t the only way to play it, he said on the “Goldman Sachs Exchanges” podcast published on Friday.Diameter Capital, which manages approximately $25 billion in assets, has focused on…