Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
Timing is everything. For early risers and late-nighters alike, listening to your internal clock may be the key to success. From the classroom to the courtroom and beyond, people perform best on challenging tasks at a time of day that aligns with their circadian rhythm.Circadian rhythms are powerful internal timekeepers that drive a person’s physiological and intellectual functioning throughout the day. Peaks in these circadian rhythms vary across individuals. Some people, known as larks or morning chronotypes, peak early and feel at their best in the morning. Others, known as owls or evening chronotypes, peak later in the day and…
Justin Bieber has a design note for Apple.Bieber vented his frustrations about the dictation button available on Apple iPhones in social media posts on X and Instagram on Friday. The dictation button is a text-to-speech feature that users often accidentally hit.”If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold,” Bieber wrote. “Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing The send button should not have multiple functions in the…
A cornerstone of philosophy is the ability to communicate ideas clearly and precisely.That’s also the key to getting the most out of an AI model, according to Anthropic’s own resident philosopher.Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic’s technical team and a trained philosopher, says that effective prompting requires striking the right balance between several considerations.On Anthropic’s “Ask Me Anything” podcast, Askell, who studied philosophy at Oxford and New York University, according to her LinkedIn, explained her thought process.”It is really hard to distill what is going on because one thing is just like a willingness to interact with the models a…
This undated photo provided by California Department of Health shows a Death Cap Mushroom. (California Department of Health via AP)California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children.The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday. The toxic wild mushrooms are often mistaken for edible ones because of their appearance and taste.“Death cap mushrooms contain potentially deadly toxins that can lead to liver failure,” Erica Pan,…
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease cases linked to a Florida gym has brought cases to a 10-year-high in the state.The Orange County “gym exposure” outbreak includes 14 cases of the disease, the Florida Department of Health said.Legionnaires’ disease is a serious type of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria, according to the health department. The lung infection can be mild for healthy people but serious and sometimes deadly for certain at-risk groups.”The most common way for someone to get sick is by breathing in mist containing Legionella,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The gym outbreak brings the total…
Thousands of bottles of a commonly used prescription drug to treat hypertension has been recalled for possible contamination with another drug.Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., which has U.S. headquarters in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, has recalled multiple lots of bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide tablets (brand name Ziac), because the tablets may have been cross contaminated with other products, according to a recall report published online by the Food and Drug Administration.The global drug maker, which is headquartered in Mumbai, India, said testing of reserve samples showed presence of traces of ezetimibe, a cholesterol drug the company also produces, according to the recall,…
As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely than white Americans to develop kidney failure.While Black people constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, they account for 35% of those with kidney failure. The reason is due in part to the prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure – the two largest contributors to kidney disease – in the Black community.Almost 100,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting kidney transplantation. Though Black Americans are more…
Dec 6 (Reuters) – Regeneron said on Saturday its experimental cancer combination therapy was effective and showed disappearance of the disease in previously untreated patients with a type of blood cancer in the first part of a late-stage trial.The trial, which enrolled 22 patients, studied safety and preliminary efficacy of the company’s therapy, odronextamab, in combination with chemotherapy in patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma or DLBCL.Odronextamab belongs to a class of treatments called bispecific antibodies that are designed to attach to a cancer cell and an immune cell, bringing them together so that the body’s immune system can kill…
Nardiz Cooke was alarmed when she felt a lump in her right breast in late 2018. Her OB-GYN wasn’t: Cooke was 38 and had no family history of cancer. Cooke’s doctor diagnosed her with fibrosis, a common condition that causes tissue to feel lumpy. Cooke was reassured, but almost two years later, new symptoms began. She had splitting headaches. She said she was “vomiting out of the blue.” Her ears rang. She had double vision and sometimes lost her sight. Once, it took 40 minutes for her vision to return.But no matter how many doctors Cooke saw, everything came back…
Dec 6 (Reuters) – Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Saturday its gene therapy helped children aged between 5 and 11 years with sickle cell disease to be free of painful events and allowed those with another blood disorder that requires frequent blood transfusions to be transfusion-free for at least 12 consecutive months.This supports the potential for the therapy to treat the blood disorders in a younger patient population and will help Vertex expand the use of Casgevy, which is currently approved for patients 12 years and older with sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).”These results — the first clinical…