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It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat.Then, a sneeze.Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.Viral upper respiratory tract infections – also known as the common cold – afflict everyone, typically three times per year, lasting, on average, nine days.Colds don’t respond to antibiotics, and most over-the-counter medications deliver modest results at best.In recent years, research has emerged demonstrating the effectiveness of the ancient practice of nasal saline irrigation in fighting the common cold in both adults and children.Not only does nasal saline irrigation decrease the duration of…
About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under 18. This food aid helps their families buy groceries and boosts their health in many ways – both during childhood and once they’re adults.I am a developmental psychologist who studies how stress and nutrition affect kids’ mental and physical health during childhood, and how those effects continue once they become adults.Researchers like me are worried that the SNAP benefits disruption caused by the 2025 government shutdown and the SNAP cuts included in the big tax-and-spending package President Donald Trump…
Brett Johnson spent over a decade breaking into systems, stealing identities, and selling stolen credit cards on the dark web. He stole millions of dollars, often making over $100,000 a month through tax-return identity theft.He’s worked with the Secret Service and private companies as a consultant to help stop the kinds of crimes he once perpetrated. He told Business Insider’s Carter Thallon in a recent interview that the crime world he helped invent is mutating into something harder to see — and almost impossible to stop.Cybercrime is becoming increasingly organized, and that’s a problem, he said. The next wave of…
2025-11-14T13:32:35.306Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. OpenAI updated ChatGPT to let users avoid em dashes in generated text — a hallmark of the chatbot. Sam Altman announced the change after users complained about ChatGPT’s writing style. The update is part of ongoing efforts to make ChatGPT more customizable for users. It’s about to become harder…
(Reuters) -The European Medicines Agency’s committee has recommended approval of French drugmaker Sanofi’s first-of-its-kind drug that delays onset of the insulin-dependent stage 3 of type 1 diabetes, it said on Friday.Teizeild, chemically known as teplizumab, was already approved in the U.S. in November 2022 for patients with stage 2 of the disease that typically show no symptoms.In March 2023, Sanofi had acquired U.S-based biotech Provention Bio for $2.9 billion, giving the French drugmaker full ownership of the teizeild.The drug slows the immune system’s attack on insulin-producing cells and is given as a daily infusion for 14 days.The EMA’s recommendation follows…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida’s new social studies teaching standards that other critics have warned rehabilitate shameful aspects of the McCarthy era.“The new Florida standards you write about are appalling,” Mitzi Trumbo said late Thursday in an email to The Associated Press. “History should never be rewritten to match the politics of the day, as history has valuable lessons to teach.”The standards approved Thursday for middle- and high-school students by the Florida Board of Education include instruction on the use of “‘McCarthyism’…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in the shooting of college football coach John Beam, who was featured in the Netflix series “Last Chance U” and remains in critical condition after being shot on campus, the Oakland Police Department said Friday.Few other details were available. It was the second shooting in two days at a school in Oakland. Mayor Barbara Lee described Beam as a “giant” and a mentor, educator and lifeline for young people. “For over 40 years, he has shaped leaders on and off the field, and our community is shaken alongside his family,” Lee…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) – Blood-thinning drugs that doctors often prescribe interchangeably after procedures to reopen narrowed heart arteries don’t work equally well in patients with diabetes, a study from India found.All 1,800 study participants had Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, and all had undergone minimally invasive interventions to clear a clogged coronary artery and prop it open using a drug-coated stent to help reduce the risk of reclogging.Afterward, they received aspirin plus either AstraZeneca’s Brilinta (ticagrelor) or Effient (prasugrel), sold by…
Legal AI might not sound like the sexiest category in Silicon Valley, but Harvey‘s CEO Winston Weinberg has captured the attention of virtually every top-tier investor in the Valley. The company’s cap table reads like a who’s who of venture capital: the OpenAI Startup Fund (its first institutional investor), Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil, Google Ventures, Coatue, and most recently, Andreessen Horowitz. The San Francisco-based company’s valuation skyrocketed from $3 billion in February 2025 to $5 billion in June to $8 billion in late October — a rise that reflects both the bonkers price tags awarded to AI companies,…
Anthropic says Chinese nation-state hackers hijacked its AI model Claude to carry out a cyberattack without “substantial” human involvement.In a Thursday blog post, the startup said Claude handled about “80-90%” of the cyberattack against about 30 global targets and that it had “high confidence” that a Chinese state-sponsored group was behind it.Targets included large tech firms, financial institutions, chemical-manufacturing companies, and government agencies, Anthropic said. Its efforts to infiltrate these firms and agencies were successful in a “small number of cases,” the company added.AI agents — programs that can perform tasks autonomously — are increasingly being embraced by companies to…