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If you’ve ever had a PET scan, you know it’s an ordeal. The scans help doctors detect cancer and track its spread, but the process itself is a logistical nightmare for patients.  It starts with fasting for four to six hours before coming into the hospital — and good luck to you if you live rurally and your local hospital doesn’t have a PET scanner. When you get to the hospital, you’re injected with radioactive material, after which you must wait an hour while it washes through your body. Next, you enter the PET scanner and have to attempt to…

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the hospital four times a week to have her blood filtered by a machine since her own kidneys could no longer function independently. Two years later, Maxim’s mother received a kidney transplant. Although the surgery was successful and allowed her to lead a relatively normal life, it wasn’t the end of his family’s struggle with kidney disease. It turned out that Maxim had inherited the disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), from her. About one in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Hampshire man is resuming dialysis after living with a gene-edited pig kidney for a record 271 days, doctors said Monday. His experience is helping researchers in their quest for animal-to-human transplants.Tim Andrews, 67, had the organ removed on Oct. 23 because its function was declining, according to Mass General Brigham. In a statement, his transplant team called Andrews “a selfless medical pioneer and an inspiration” to patients with kidney failure.Andrews’ experience illustrates lessons researchers have learned with each experiment involving what’s called xenotransplantation. The first attempts using pig organs gene-edited to be more humanlike –…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lynkuet, a new daily pill from Bayer that provides a non-hormonal option for treating hot flashes, common during menopause. The drug, known generically as elinzanetant, is the second medication to directly target the brain pathways involved in body temperature control.Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop producing estrogen, usually in a woman’s late 40s or early 50s. Treating its symptoms has long been difficult because the transition affects multiple systems — temperature regulation, sleep, mood, bones, and sexuality — and the hormonal shifts vary widely among individuals. No single therapy can address all…

More than 2.2 million pounds of a ready-to-eat Korean barbecue pork jerky have been recalled due to possible pieces of metal, according to federal health officials.The jerky was shipped to Costco and Sam’s Club retail locations nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Friday. It was recalled by LSI, Inc., a South Dakota company.The recalled products include 14.5-oz. and 16-oz. plastic pouches containing “GOLDEN ISLAND fire-grilled PORK JERKY Korean BARBECUE recipe” with an establishment number “M279A” inside the USDA mark of inspection and “best by” dates ranging from Oct. 23, 2025, through Sept. 23, 2026.The…

As companies race to deploy AI, Vercel says it has found a way to get ahead: They are training AI agents on how their best employees work.The $9.3 billion company, founded by coder Guillermo Rauch in 2015, is a cloud-based platform for developers to build and deploy websites and applications.It’s now using AI agents to automate the rote work of many of its entry-level roles, allowing it to reduce a once 10-person team down to just one person and a bot.Agents are commonly defined as virtual assistants that can complete tasks autonomously. They break down problems, outline plans, and take…

2025-10-27T16:09:33Z 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. Trump said he believes he has a “good” relationship with Elon Musk. He also said he’s spoken “a little bit” with Musk since they met at Charlie Kirk’s memorial. “He had a bad moment,” Trump said. “It was a stupid moment in his life, very stupid.” The feud between…

Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, has raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Felicis Ventures, which led the company’s previous $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, is also leading this round. Existing investors Benchmark and General Catalyst, and new investor Robinhood Ventures also participated. TechCrunch reported in September that Mercor was in talks with investors to raise a Series C at a valuation of $10 billion, up from its target of $8 billion a few months prior. The company at the time…

Pinterest announced on Monday new AI-powered upgrades to its boards to make them more personalized for users. These features include an AI-driven collage, “Styled for you,” that helps users create outfits from saved fashion Pins, and “Boards made for you,” personalized boards curated with AI.  “Styled for you” collages allow users to combine different clothing and accessories to create new outfits tailored to their individual style preferences. By tapping an item in the collage, users can swipe through AI-recommended saved pins for mixing and matching. Pinterest is also testing “Boards made for you,” personalized boards curated from a blend of…

Fall is in full swing, and that means daylight saving time will soon draw to a close.This year, the time change occurs on Sunday, Nov. 1.Daylight saving time was first established in the U.S. by Congress after the Calder Act, or the Standard Time Act of 1918, was passed more than 100 years ago and was more recently amended with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.In the U.S., daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March at 2 a.m., when clocks “spring forward” one hour, and ends the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m., when clocks “fall…