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Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior – to look for pneumonia or another infection.The scan ruled that out, but it also showed something unexpected: calcium buildup in the walls of the coronary arteries. That finding had nothing to do with the cough, but it pointed toward a much more serious problem. After weighing other risk factors, the patient and their doctor decided to start medication to reduce the risk of a…
LONDON (AP) — A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school, prompting public health officials to quickly roll out medical interventions.The outbreak in the county of Kent was described Wednesday as unprecedented by U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting, owing to the high number of cases appearing in such a short space of time. The first case was confirmed on Friday, and they had risen to 20 by Wednesday.Most of them were linked to the University of Kent in the historic cathedral city of Canterbury. Students, many…
LinkedIn wants a bigger chunk of the streaming TV ad business. Loading audio narration… The professional networking site exclusively told Business Insider that it has signed up adtech company The Trade Desk as its first demand-side platform partner for connected-TV ads. DSPs are software that allow advertisers to automate their ad buys and target audiences across a range of websites, apps, and platforms like TV.Advertisers and agencies accustomed to using The Trade Desk for their digital ad buying can now layer in LinkedIn data to reach its audience of more than 1 billion professionals as they relax in front of…
Uber used software to change how people catch a ride. Now it’s using AI to change how it creates software.Praveen Neppalli Naga, the CTO of Uber, said in a LinkedIn post this week that 95% of its engineers now use AI every month, describing it as a “real reset moment for engineering.”He said that over the last few months the company has “leaned in hard” to AI coding, and that the “results have been phenomenal.”The biggest shift, Naga said, comes from agentic AI, which is when software completes tasks autonomously with little or no supervision.At Uber, that means engineers are…
March 18 (Reuters) – A new blood test for the painful uterine disorder endometriosis detected cases missed by ultrasound and MRI, according to results of a study to be presented at a medical meeting this week.Endometriosis, in which cells similar to the lining of the uterus grow outside the uterus, affects about 1 in 10 women of reproductive age, causing pelvic pain, menstrual irregularities, dyspareunia, or pain associated with sexual intercourse, and gastrointestinal discomfort.Diagnosis can take years, largely because imaging tests don’t detect it accurately, and the current gold standard diagnostic method involves laparoscopic surgery.Studying 298 reproductive-age women who had…
For the last five years, Gabby Masseran has loved working as a bartender in Denver, Colorado — even if it means the occasional sticky floor or messy table. Lately, that professional joy has been tested by a tiny piece of trash now found everywhere from underneath tables to empty drink glasses: used nicotine pouches.“I just started noticing them the past year, people just spit them all over the ground, in the urinal, in anywhere they could possibly spit it except for the trash,” Masseran, 23, told NBC News. “It used to be gum under the tables, now it’s just Zyns.”It’s…
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — When a male bullfinch smashed into Marcin Jarzębski’s apartment window, he took it in but realized it needed expert treatment. So the next morning he brought it to Warsaw’s new emergency room for wild birds.He placed the tiny, plump bird with a black head, gray back and reddish chest feathers into a shoebox and took it as one of the first patients to the new drop-off center for sick and injured birds at the entrance of the Warsaw Zoo.“The bird stayed with us overnight, but unfortunately it probably has a broken wing so we brought it…
LONDON (AP) — A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school, prompting public health officials to quickly roll out medical interventions.The outbreak in the county of Kent was described Wednesday as unprecedented by U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting, owing to the high number of cases appearing in such a short space of time. The first case was only confirmed on Friday.The number of meningitis cases rose by a further five on Tuesday to 20. Thousands of students at the University of Kent in the city of…
Americans are furious about drug prices. The Trump administration’s answer? A new website.But more than a month after its launch, the site, TrumpRx.gov, remains small — offering discounts on just 54 prescription drugs. Many of those drugs already have cheaper generic versions or savings programs available elsewhere, and the discounts can’t be used with insurance or count toward a deductible. Awareness of the site remains limited.Whether TrumpRx actually lowers drug prices matters in ways that go beyond the success of the website itself. For President Donald Trump, it’s tied to a broader push on health care costs as the midterms…
Stock-based compensation, long a defining feature of the software industry, faces renewed scrutiny as investors reassess the sector amid slowing growth and the disruptive impact of AI.The issue came into focus during a recent conversation I had with the CEO of a major public software company, who warned that the industry could be headed for a “painful financial reset.”Speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the topic, the executive said stock-based compensation, or SBC, has grown too large relative to future growth prospects for many software-as-a-service companies.Recent data from analysts at Barclays and William Blair highlights how widespread the issue…