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Of all the words in the dictionary, Sarah Franklin says “balance” is perhaps her favorite – especially when it comes to companies embracing AI. Franklin leads the Jack Altman-founded employee performance software company Lattice, which is now worth $3 billion. Both on stage at SXSW London and in conversation with TechCrunch, she spoke a lot about balance — the opportunities in finding it, and the risks of not having it during this AI revolution.  “We put people first,” Franklin told TechCrunch, referring to Lattice, which has started to adopt more AI and automation features.  Although some companies are touting AI…

OpenAI’s head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she’s stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer. In a post on LinkedIn, Rouch says that Gary Briggs, Meta’s former CMO, will serve as interim head of marketing during her leave. “Earlier this year — just weeks into my dream job — I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer,” wrote Rouch. “For the past five months, I’ve been undergoing chemo at UCSF while leading our marketing team. It’s been the hardest season of life — for me, my husband, and our two young…

Editor’s Note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. CNN  —  Billy Joel at one point wanted to “end it all,” according to the documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.” The new film, which premiered at Tribeca Festival in New York City this week, revisits the some of the singer’s struggles, including two suicide attempts following an affair…

Approximately 1.7 million air conditioners are being recalled due to the potential for mold exposure.According to a notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, water may pool in Midea’s U and U+ window air conditioners and “can fail to drain quickly enough, which can lead to mold growth.”Mold growth and exposure to mold can lead to health problems including respiratory issues like a cough, stuffy nose, sore throat, wheezing or itchy eyes and skin issues such as a rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with conditions like asthma or have a mold allergy may have…

Scientists have long been trying to discover whether the popular supplement taurine can slow aging.Evidence had suggested that levels of the nutrient found in meat and shellfish declined after midlife in people, meaning that taurine might be considered a marker for healthy aging. A 2023 international study confirmed that taurine decreased with age and then showed that taurine supplements could slow the aging process in several species of animals.Now, a new study published in Science on Thursday found that taurine levels did not decline with age but, rather, were unchanged throughout adult life or even increased in some older people.The…

This is a KFF Health News story.The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses is the latest blow to national defense, former health security officials said. They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic.”The administration’s actions are gutting our deterrence from biological threats,” said Beth Cameron, a senior adviser to the Brown University Pandemic Center and a former director at the White House National Security Council. “Canceling this investment is a signal that we are changing our posture on pandemic preparedness,”…

CNN  —  Patti LuPone may have apologized for some recent controversial remarks, but that doesn’t mean the curtain has dropped on the drama. The actress sparked a major backlash after disparaging comments she made about fellow Broadway stars Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald in a recent interview with the New Yorker. LuPone referred to Lewis as a “b**ch” and said McDonald was “not a friend.” Hundreds of performers from Broadway and other theater communities then wrote a letter in which they characterized LuPone’s comments as “degrading and misogynistic—it is a blatant act of racialized disrespect.” “It constitutes bullying. It constitutes…

A patient opened fire inside a busy hospital emergency room in a northern Chicago suburb the night of June 5, striking a security guard, police reported.The brazen shooting took place in the city of Evanston as the shooting suspect, who police identified as a 28-year-old local man, became agitated toward a hospital worker while being admitted, Evanston Police Department Comd. Scott Sophier said in a news release.The suspect, Sophier said, began shooting inside the ER of Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital .Evanston is in Cook County, just over 15 miles north of downtown Chicago.No other injuries were reported.”The security officer who…

LEOPOLD, Ind. (AP) — On the ceiling of Abbie Brockman’s middle school English classroom in Perry County, the fluorescent lights are covered with images of a bright blue sky, a few clouds floating by.Outside, the real sky isn’t always blue. Sometimes it’s hazy, with pollution drifting from coal-fired power plants in this part of southwest Indiana. Knowing exactly how much, and what it may be doing to the people who live there, is why Brockman got involved with a local environmental organization that’s installing air and water quality monitors in her community.“Industry and government is very, very, very powerful. It’s…

A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldn’t afford insulin without insurance, despite having a full-time job. I told her what I’ve come to believe: The U.S. health care system was deliberately built this way.People often hear that health care in America is dysfunctional – too expensive, too complex and too inequitable. But dysfunction implies failure. What if the real problem is that the system is functioning exactly as it was designed to? Understanding this legacy is key to explaining not only why reform has failed repeatedly, but why change…