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Ten years ago, Barbara Cooper’s parents made what they thought was their final move to the Harborside Retirement Community in Port Washington, New York.”They had beautiful brunches every Sunday, intellectual activities that my mom loved. It was just a beautiful place,” Cooper told CBS News.Joyce and Norman Cooper had earned it, saving diligently. To get in, they paid $946,000.”It was a lot of money, but they’d have health care for the rest of their lives in the same building, in the same place and be together,” Barbara Cooper said.The Harborside offered independent living, assisted living, nursing and memory care, all…
By Dietrich KnauthDec 8, Reuters – West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager Optum fueled the state’s opioid crisis by oversupplying its communities with addictive painkillers.State Attorney General J.B. McCuskey said West Virginia was already struggling with an addiction crisis when Optum began trying to evade legal safeguards that were meant to limit opioid sales.“Optum saw a business opportunity,” McCuskey said in a statement. “And in its greed, Optum chose to make things worse.”United HealthGroup did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Pharmacy benefit managers handle prescription drug benefits…
2025-12-08T23:05:49.556Z 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. President Donald Trump announced his approval for Nvidia to sell H200 chips to China. Trump said the US would get a cut of the sales. Nvidia’s stock was up following the announcement. Nvidia just scored a win from President Donald Trump.In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump…
Despite previous excitement around a potential link between GLP-1 drugs and a reduced risk of cancer, new research suggests the popular medications “probably have little or no effect” on a person’s risk of developing one of the 13 obesity-related cancers.The findings, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, may seem counterintuitive, said co-author Dr. Cho-Han Chiang, who conducted the study earlier this year as an internal medicine resident at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.“GLP-1 can make people lose weight, and so, if obesity increases the risk of cancer, then, hypothetically speaking, losing…
Advanced Nvidia AI chips can head back to China after all. The Department of Commerce will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China, as originally reported by Semafor, to approved customers in the country. The U.S. will take a 25% cut of these sales, CNBC reported. H200 chips are much more advanced than the H20 chips Nvidia developed specifically for the Chinese market, but the company would only be able to send H200s that are roughly 18 months old, Semafor reported. “We applaud President Trump’s decision to allow America’s chip industry to compete to support high paying jobs and…
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans signing up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2026 is moderately higher than it was at a similar time last year, initial new federal data shows, even as subsidies set to expire at the end of 2025 will make the coverage more expensive for many.Seen at face value, the data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services seems to defy predictions that many Americans facing pricier plans would drop out of marketplace coverage altogether next year. But experts caution that the numbers are an incomplete snapshot of total enrollment, which…
Google announced on Monday that it’s introducing a shoppable discovery feed in Doppl, its experimental app that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you. The tech giant says the idea behind the new feed is to display recommendations so users can discover and virtually try on new items. Nearly everything in the feed is shoppable, with direct links to merchants. The discovery feed features AI-generated videos of real products and suggests outfits based on your personalized style. Google determines your style by analyzing the preferences you share with Doppl and the items you interact with. The…
When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” the risks to their babies’ health substantially increase, a new study found. These risks include the chance of low birth weight, preterm birth and infant mortality.Even more troubling, our team of economic researchers and hydrologists found that PFAS exposure increases the likelihood of extremely low-weight and extremely preterm births, which are strongly associated with lifelong health challenges.What wells showed us about PFAS risksPFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, have captured the attention of the public and regulators in recent years for…
Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, available Monday as a research preview, builds on Anthropic’s existing Slack integration by adding full workflow automation. The rollout signals that the next frontier in coding assistants isn’t the model; it’s the workflow. Previously, developers could only get lightweight coding help via Claude in Slack — like writing snippets, debugging, and explanations. Now they can tag @Claude to spin up a complete coding session using Slack context like bug reports or feature requests. Claude analyzes recent messages to determine the…
Concerns about the flu spreading in the U.S. are growing as the U.K. continues to see a spike in cases among children and young adults.The increased number of cases in the U.K., could be a predictor for the flu season in the U.S., according to ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula.”We know that England or other places can be a marker for what is going to happen here, because their flu season happens a few weeks earlier than ours,” Narula said on “Good Morning America” Monday, adding, “We have low numbers of cases so far but they are…