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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As people awoke to headlines over the weekend about deadly U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and potential of widening conflict, alerts, social media and conversations at the dining room table were consumed by the news. While medical experts say it is normal for people to experience stress and anxiety — or feeling that the world descended into chaos overnight — it is important to find coping mechanisms and ways to responsibly take in the news in order to protect one’s mental health.“Fear, sadness, confusion… these are very normal reactions to very extreme circumstances,” Michael S. Ziffra,…
Breast cancer survival continues to improve in the United States and other high-income nations, while women in low-income countries face rising death rates and widening gaps in care.According to a major Lancet report covering 1990 to 2023, breast cancer death rates in the US fell by more than 40% while rates of new diagnoses dropped by nearly 30%.These findings parallel declining death rates in other high-income areas such as Western Europe, but sharply contrast with increasing death rates of more than 80% in low-income areas like Sub-Saharan Africa.What to know about calculating breast cancer risk after Olivia Munn’s diagnosis“These findings…
2026-03-03T00:39:45.571Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Amazon said three of its data centers in the Middle East were damaged by drone strikes due to the US-Iran conflict in the region.Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike “in close proximity,” the…
U.S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War. This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, represents a sizable increase compared with ChatGPT’s typical day-over-day uninstall rate of 9%, as measured over the past 30 days. Meanwhile, U.S. downloads for OpenAI competitor Anthropic’s Claude jumped up by 37% day-over-day on Friday, February 27, and 51% as of Saturday, February 28, after the company announced…
As Sam Altman discovered Saturday night, it’s a fraught time to do work for the U.S. government. Around 7 p.m., the OpenAI CEO announced he would be fielding questions publicly on X, as a way of demystifying his company’s decision to pick up the Pentagon contract that Anthropic had just walked away from. Most of the questions boiled down to OpenAI’s willingness to participate in mass surveillance and automated killing – the exact activities Anthropic had ruled out in its negotiations with the Pentagon. Altman typically punted to the public sector, saying it wasn’t his role to set national policy.…
March 2 (Reuters) – An April meeting of an international panel of experts scheduled to review the United States’ measles elimination status has been postponed until November, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.The department did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.A panel convened by the Pan American Health Organization had planned to meet in April to assess whether the ongoing spread of measles meant the U.S. should lose its elimination status.AdvertisementAdvertisementCountries receive that status when they have not had continuous measles transmission for more than…
Elon Musk’s X is promoting itself to potential advertisers with a new deck that underlines its commitment to brand safety, according to the leaked deck shared with Business Insider.It comes after the AI chatbot shared “deepfake” sexualized images of women and children — a practice it stopped in late January after a backlash. The company said it would no longer generate AI images of real people in sexualized clothing.The deck shows X is also promoting its use of “blocklists.” A blocklist is a list of sites or accounts that advertisers explicitly prevent their ads from appearing on. In the past, Musk’s…
A rise in rectal cancer rates is driving an increase in colorectal cancer diagnoses in people younger than 65, according to a report published Monday from the American Cancer Society.Colorectal cancer rates in people under 65 are surging, with nearly half (45%) of new diagnoses occurring in this age group, up from 27% in 1995. At the same time, colorectal cancer rates are falling in people 65 and older.Rectal cancers on their own, however, are rising in all adults, and now account for nearly one-third of all colorectal cancer diagnoses, up from 27% in the mid-2000s, the report found.Between 2018…
Amazon closed its fulfillment center operations in Abu Dhabi and suspended deliveries across the region, as the company responds to escalating instability that is rippling across its Middle East network.The e-commerce giant shared the updates in an internal memo this week, which was seen by Business Insider. As a result, customers in the region are experiencing delivery and return delays, the memo said.Amazon employees in Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been instructed to remain indoors, the memo added. Many Amazon employees across the region are transitioning to work from home this week, while business travel to Israel and Lebanon has…
March 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Jay Bhattacharya on Monday said the MMR vaccine remains the most reliable and effective way to prevent the spread of measles.”There is no cure for measles, which is why prevention is so critical,” Bhattacharya said in a video posted on X. “The MMR vaccine remains the most reliable and effective way to prevent it.”Bhattacharya said the CDC was surging resources to support prevention and response efforts, and was coordinating regularly with health officials across the country.”We stand ready to provide CDC technical staff, laboratory support, vaccines and…