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The United States isn’t out of a severe flu season yet as more children are getting infected.Cases across the country had appeared to decline before the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on Jan. 30 showed upticks in infections.“We are heading up a second peak of flu season,” said Caitlin Rivers, a Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist who writes the “Force of Infection” newsletter. The country saw its first peak right around the New Year, followed by a couple weeks of declines, she added.See stunning photos from the massive winter storm blanketing the US1 of 14Much of the…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Saturday that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.” Huang’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal published a story late Friday claiming that Nvidia was looking to scale back its investment in OpenAI. The two companies announced a plan in September in which Nvidia would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and also build 10 gigawatts of computing infrastructure for the AI company. However, the WSJ said Huang has begun emphasizing that the deal is nonbinding, and that he’s also privately criticized OpenAI’s business strategy and expressed concerns…
Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, sufferers had no remedy for leprosy’s debilitating symptoms or its social stigma.This young scientist, Alice Ball, laid fundamental groundwork for the first effective leprosy treatment globally. But her legacy still prompts conversations about the marginalization of women and people of color in science today.As a bioethicist and historian of medicine, I’ve studied Ball’s contributions to medicine, and I’m pleased to see her receive increasing recognition for her…
The U.S. departure from the World Health Organization became official in late January 2026, according to the Trump administration – a year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on inauguration day of his second term declaring that he was doing so. He first stated his intention to do so during his first term in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic.The U.S. severing its ties with the WHO will cause ripple effects that linger for years to come, with widespread implications for public health. The Conversation asked Jordan Miller, a public health professor at Arizona State University, to explain…
Detective Sergeant Chris Johnson always kept his health in mind. He knew he had a family history of high blood pressure, so he made sure to stay active and eat well. His job with the Bartlett, Illinois, police force kept him on his feet. When he wasn’t at his desk or spending time with his wife and two children, he was in the gym or playing basketball.One Sunday last March was a rare, slow day. He had spent it relaxing with his family and watching some TV before heading to bed early. Shortly after lying down, he began to feel…
It’s 2026, and I say it’s time to bring call just calling people. No calendar appointment, no text first. Just pick up the phone and call.We must do this to save the very fabric of our society. It’s time for us to take back what was promised to us. It’s time to reach and out touch someone. It’s time to raw dial.Right now, the beautiful art of the phone call is under attack. It’s being threatened with extinction. Those ancient skills that made us great — prank calling, having a clever outgoing answering machine message, knowing how to answer an…
Colorectal cancer was once viewed as being mostly diagnosed among middle-age and older adults, but that’s changing.Research shows more adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, with incidence increasing over the last three decades.Deaths are on the rise too, with a recent study finding colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men — and second in women, under age 50.Lifetime alcohol use linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer, new study finds”It’s definitely incredibly concerning that these rates continue to rise and that we really don’t know why this is…
Becoming parents has changed more than just the work schedules for Silicon Valley’s elite, according to the “father of the iPod.”Tony Fadell, the former Apple executive who invented the popular music player, said that founders he’s worked with think differently about privacy issues after going through the life-changing experience of having kids.”I remember a marked way difference in the way I thought about the world before I had kids and after I had kids,” Fadell told Eric Newcomer during a recent interview on the journalist’s podcast.Fadell said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
People use music to set moods, create a desired atmosphere and evoke memories of family and friends. The right song at the right time can have similar effects for some dogs.Pet owners, trainers and animal shelter workers sometimes use music as a training tool, a distraction from triggers and to create a relaxing environment for dogs kept in kennels or left alone at home. But researchers say music is context-dependent, meaning the effects vary based on dogs’ temperament, the setting, the type of tune and the volume at which it’s played.Social media videos of dogs howling to music, relaxing to…
From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no gleaming logo in fluorescent lights. Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made slightly less austere by a haphazard sprawl of long blonde-wood tables. Some are clearly meant for lunch, dotted with Girl Scout cookie boxes, jars of Vegemite (someone here is Australian), and small wire baskets stuffed with one too many condiments. The rest of…