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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new push Thursday to get medical schools to teach more about nutrition.Kennedy has spent months pressing schools to increase nutrition education, threatening funding cuts for those that refuse and promising public recognition for those that comply. He has long argued that doctors are undertrained in nutrition, leading to a focus on treating chronic diseases with medication rather than preventing them with diet, an approach that some experts say is oversimplified.Fifty-two medical schools have voluntarily agreed to take part in the new initiative, senior Department of Health and Human Services officials told reporters…

Full-fat dairy is back on top. Whole milk now dominates the dairy aisle. (Illustration: Hunter French for Yahoo News)On the internet, you can find every kind of girlie: nap girlies, Pilates girlies, Bravo girlies, Prozac girlies, book girlies — to name a few.Chelsea Shackel thought she was an oat milk girlie.The 30-year-old aesthetician grew up drinking whole dairy milk. But when she moved to Los Angeles in 2018, not only did it seem trendy to order oat milk drinks, but “it seemed wrong to get whole milk all of a sudden. … I remember being fed information about whole milk,…

The prediction market Kalshi wants you to know that it definitely doesn’t run “death markets.”In a notice filed Monday, the company proposed standardizing the terms of all its markets that implicitly depend on a person surviving.If a person dies, according to the new rule, all bets related to them will be paid out at the odds that existed just before they died or their death was “reasonably anticipated by market participants.” The rule goes into effect March 17, according to the notice.The update comes after Kalshi paid $2.2 million to resolve complaints from users who were confused by the way…

In late 2022, when ChatGPT was first blowing everyone’s minds, Kenji didn’t really get it. Sure, it did some pretty cool things. But so had plenty of other generative AI models he’d tinkered with over the years. What so many outsiders thought was a world-changing breakthrough seemed to him, a machine learning engineer, much closer to an incremental improvement. All the fear that AI would swallow up everyone’s jobs felt overblown. He certainly didn’t think it could do his job anytime soon.About a year ago, though, he began to feel less sure. The AI tools he was using in his…

By Jennifer RigbyLONDON, March 5 (Reuters) – South Africa is asking local drugmakers to start a process to make Gilead Sciences’ long-acting HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, domestically, in a push to bring production ‌to the region where it is most needed.The government is working alongside international partners, including Unitaid ‌and the United States Pharmacopoeia, to identify which local company could make the twice-yearly injection safely, effectively and affordably, and provide any support ​needed. They will then recommend that company to Gilead.Gilead, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, granted six voluntary licences in 2024 to generic manufacturers across India, Egypt and Pakistan to…

THIKA, Kenya (AP) — When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. She did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the lives of thousands of breast cancer survivors.She now makes knitted prostheses for other breast cancer survivors in Kenya who who have had an entire breast removed, known as a mastectomy, without the reconstructive surgery common in higher-income countries.Women say the affordable prostheses are a relief in Kenya where, as in most countries, breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women. On average, 6,000 cases…

Picture this: It’s lunchtime in the 1960s, and you’re out with co-workers enjoying not one, not two, but three cocktails with your meal.While the three-martini lunch seems improbable today, workplaces still can be boozy places. After-work happy hours, corporate parties and client meetings at fancy bars are still expected in many areas of American corporate culture.Talking about sobriety with managers and colleagues therefore can be daunting for people in recovery from alcohol addiction. Professionals in some industries fear being judged for needing help or missing out on career advancement opportunities if social drinking is encouraged as part of a job.Treatment…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said Wednesday.Emmanuel Damas, 56, told medical personnel at the Florence Correctional Center that he had a toothache in mid-February, but he was not sent to a dentist, said Damas’ brother, Presly Nelson.Nelson believes the staff at the facility did not take his brother’s complaints seriously even though it was a treatable condition. Nelson said he would expect such a death in countries with less access to health care, but not…

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes. It could be that simple. While firms sometimes pile into companies until practically the eve of their public debut in search of more upside, Nvidia is minting money selling the chips that power both companies — it’s not like it needs to goose its returns by pouring even more…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In their mostly white school district, Black students routinely heard racial slurs. White classmates hurled insults like “slave,” “monkey” or worse. It often went unpunished.Parents made those claims in a 2024 complaint asking the U.S. Education Department to investigate racial bullying at the Pennridge School District in Pennsylvania. They thought their complaint had the power to make things better. Instead, it became one of thousands sitting in a federal office with little hope of gaining attention after layoffs by the Trump administration.Families say they’ve had nowhere else to turn.“There was an expectation that something was going to…