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NEW YORK (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer each drove in a run, and eight Toronto pitchers shut down the New York Yankees in a 5-2 victory Wednesday night that sent the Blue Jays to the American League Championship Series for the first time in nine years.“Kind of fitting that it took everyone to win today,” said manager John Schneider, soaked in bubbly from the clubhouse celebration inside Yankee Stadium.Nathan Lukes provided a two-run single and Addison Barger had three of Toronto’s 12 hits as the pesky Blue Jays, fouling off tough pitches and consistently putting the ball…
After two years of war and dire food shortages, more than 54,600 children younger than 5 in Gaza may be acutely malnourished, with more than 12,800 severely affected, according to a new study by a U.N. agency.By early August, roughly 16% of children ages 6 months to just under 5 years in Gaza were suffering from a life-threatening type of malnutrition known as acute wasting, including nearly 4% with severe wasting, according to the analysis by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the primary health care provider to Palestinian refugees in the region.Wasting…
By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -Last year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.Vaccinated veterans who developed COVID after receiving the 2024-2025 boosters from Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech were also less likely to visit the emergency room for complications, compared with unvaccinated COVID patients, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.The researchers tracked 164,132 veterans who simultaneously received a 2024-2025 COVID booster and a flu shot, and 131,839 who received only the flu vaccine.The vast majority of participants were at least 45 years…
Google told employees who want health benefits that they must allow a third-party AI healthcare tool to access their data, a move that has rankled some staff members.If they decline it, they will not receive health coverage.The company announced this month that US-based employees who wish to sign up for health benefits through its parent company Alphabet in the coming enrollment period must grant access to AI-powered tools provided by Nayya, which offers personalized benefits recommendations, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider.A staffer will not be eligible for any health benefits if they decline to opt into Nayya’s…
Covid vaccines continue to protect against serious illness and death, especially for people ages 65 and older, although the benefits for younger adults are not as clear, according to a large new study of veterans.Researchers from the VA St. Louis Healthcare System analyzed data from nearly 300,000 veterans and found that last season’s Covid vaccine reduced the risk of emergency room visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39% and deaths by 64% for all ages.When the researchers combined the three outcomes, overall effectiveness was 28%, making the Covid vaccine similar to the yearly flu shot, which ranges from 30% to 60%…
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ immunotherapy, Libtayo, as an add-on treatment for skin cancer patients at high risk of their disease returning after surgery and radiation, the drugmaker said.Libtayo is already approved in the U.S. for advanced skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, advanced non-small cell lung cancer and cervical cancer.Regeneron said its approved application did not include contract drugmaker Catalent’s Indiana facility as a fill-finish site for the drug. The FDA in August had declined to approve Regeneron’s blood cancer therapy, odronextamab, citing its inspection of the facility.The Bloomington, Indiana site handles the…
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a tiebreaking two-run single and the Chicago Cubs avoided a sweep by holding off the Milwaukee Brewers for a 4-3 victory in Game 3 of their NL Division Series on Wednesday.Crow-Armstrong’s two-out swing was part of a four-run first inning for Chicago — continuing a wild trend. Michael Busch kicked off the rally by becoming the first player in major league history with multiple leadoff homers in a single postseason series.The matchup of NL Central rivals is the first postseason series in which both teams scored in the first in each of the first…
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media.Wednesday’s 327-page complaint in Manhattan federal court seeks damages from Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, Google and YouTube owner Alphabet, Snapchat owner Snap and TikTok owner ByteDance. It accuses the defendants of gross negligence and causing a public nuisance.The city joined other governments, school districts and individuals pursuing approximately 2,050 similar lawsuits, in nationwide litigation in the Oakland, California, federal court.New York City is among…
When Nick Turley joined OpenAI in 2022 as the head of ChatGPT, he was tasked with commercializing the company’s research. He has made great strides toward that goal, growing the product to 800 million weekly active users. Now Turley wants to take an even bigger swing: transforming ChatGPT into a new type of operating system full of third-party apps. I sat down with Turley this week on the outskirts of San Francisco’s Fort Mason, a former U.S. military post where OpenAI held its third annual developer conference, to discuss how he’s thinking about ChatGPT’s future. You can find a transcript…
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit.Terri Lesley was fired as the library system director in northeastern Wyoming’s Campbell County in 2023, two years into the book dispute at the library in Gillette. Lesley sued last spring over her termination and reached the settlement with county officials Wednesday.“I do feel vindicated. It’s been a rough road, but I will…