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The life and political legacy of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Nov. 4, 2025, at the age of 84, has been well documented. But his decades-long battle with heart disease may be less appreciated.Cheney benefited from almost every major advance made in cardiovascular medicine. These breakthroughs enabled him to sustain an active political career and gave him additional years of an enjoyable life after he moved away from the political spotlight.As a cardiologist who specializes in both sports medicine and heart disease, as well as advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, I frequently provide care for patients…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -The worldwide prevalence of high blood pressure in children and adolescents nearly doubled between 2000 and 2020, new research shows, with obesity potentially driving the increase.In 2000, about 3.2% of children had hypertension. By 2020, the prevalence had increased to more than 6.2% of children and adolescents under age 19, affecting 114 million young people around the world, according to a report in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.The study also found that an additional 8.2% of children and…
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — For more than two decades, residents in this tiny tourist town in the shadow of the White Mountains knew they could just drive a few minutes down the road to their community health center for a physical, a Vitamin B-12 shot or to get checked out for a case of the sniffles or high blood pressure.But that changed last month, when this site of the Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in Franconia closed.The nearly 1,400 patients, who are often older and with more health problems than others in New Hampshire, will have to drive farther for their…
Swedish vibe coding unicorn Lovable has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $200 million in just four months, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika said on stage at the 2025 Slush technology conference in Helsinki, Finland. The milestone comes just four months after the year-old company surpassed $100 million in ARR in July. Osika credited the AI-assisted coding software maker’s decision not to move to Silicon Valley as the main reason for its success thus far. Osika said Lovable decided to stay in Europe despite getting a lot of early advice that the company would only be successful if it…
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — The closing of a health center in rural New Hampshire has raised concerns that the projected cuts in Medicaid are already taking a toll.Last month, a site of the Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in Franconia, a town of around 1,000 people, closed for good.Ammonoosuc officials and a Democratic senator have blamed Medicaid cuts for the closure of the facility that served 1,400 patients from Franconia, Easton, Lincoln and Sugar Hill. These are all tiny communities around the White Mountains, whose patients typically are older and sicker than in other parts of the state.Threats to rural health…
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — For more than two decades, Susan Bushby, a 70-year-old housekeeper from a rural ski town in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, took comfort in knowing she only had a short drive to reach the community health center.The lodgelike medical building, which sits on a hill overlooking town, was like a second home for Bushby and many other patients. The front desk staff knew their names and never missed a chance to celebrate a birthday or anniversary. Staff photos of the wilderness that makes this place such a draw hung on the walls, and bumping into a neighbor…
Michelle Carnahan spent four years as the president of VC-backed healthcare startup Thirty Madison, and before that, had a two-decade-long career at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. Now, she’s launching her own startup without a drop of VC funding.Arbiter, Carnahan’s latest venture, has raised $52 million in seed funding at a $400 million valuation, Business Insider has learned exclusively.Instead of turning to VCs, Carnahan raised the round from multiple family offices, which are essentially private investment firms that manage all aspects of a wealthy family’s finances. TriEdge Investments and MFO Ventures co-led the round, joined by private equity firm WindRose Health…
Satya Nadella isn’t a fan of letting memes define Microsoft.The Microsoft CEO discussed the impact of a 2011 cartoon that depicted tension between the company’s various divisions during a Tuesday episode of Stripe’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast.”That cartoon is a great example of someone else defining what became the cultural narrative more so than reality,” Nadella told Stripe cofounder John Collison. The Microsoft org chart cartoon was a part of a larger series of illustrations depicting Big Tech organizations. Manu Cornet The drawing was part of a larger set of drawings by cartoonist Manu Cornet that poked fun at the Big…
AI has already disrupted coding. Finance could be next, according to Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez.”Finance will come,” Gomez told Kleiner Perkins partner Joubin Mirzadegan on a recent episode of the firm’s “Grit” podcast.Cohere, a Toronto-based AI startup focused on enterprise applications, is already doing some work in the financial sector through partnerships with RBC and TD Bank. Both partnerships are built on Cohere’s LLM models. After it closed its latest round of funding in September, Cohere was valued at roughly $7 billion.Gomez, who co-authored the famous 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” while he was an intern at Google…
This summer, the PR agency Bospar was preparing a major announcement for its client, the AI computer vision company RealSense, when it discovered an awkward problem.When Bospar asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot for information about RealSense, each one provided a version of the same answer: RealSense was no longer in business.In reality, the company was on the verge of announcing a spin-out from its parent, Intel, and a $50 million funding round. How could RealSense get top-tier press coverage if the leading AI tools had already written its obituary?”There’s no 1-800 number for ChatGPT if there’s an error,” said…