A Law That Isn ’t Red or Blue
Since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, Washington hypocrisy has been on display, with both sides politicizing the bill to gain a partisan advantage. On the far left, the administration has touted the bill as a transformational piece of green-energy legislation. On the…#republicans
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

What are 87,000 New IRS Agents Needed For?
One of the most controversial pieces of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was its commitment to spend $80 billion to strengthen the IRS, including the hiring of 87,000 additional agents over the next decade. This marked a major reversal of IRS divestment. The IRS enforcement budget…#treasury #janetyellen #cbo #jct
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Benjamin Netanyahu fears AI could ‘cannibalize’ more jobs than it creates. ‘This is like having nuclear technology in the Stone Age’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, MIT professor Max Tegmark, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Sunday for a round-table discussion about artificial intelligence safety. It got interesting. Their conversation touched on potential goldilocks AI…#israeli #benjaminnetanyahu #tesla #elonmusk #mit #maxtegmark #openai #gregbrockman #israel #echoingnetanyahus
Source: Reuters: Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced they ' re building a computing system to help eliminate human disease by 2100, but costs may be hefty
None Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to eradicate human disease by 2100. • None Their project plans to use 1,000 GPUs to build a massive database of healthy and diseased cells. • None One researcher's excited by the potential, but said it'll likely take lots of time and…#markzuckerberg #noneone #priscillachan #annecarpenter #mit #llc #register #czi #alphafold #chrisbahl
Source: Reuters: Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A Law That Isn ’t Red or Blue
Since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, Washington hypocrisy has been on display, with both sides politicizing the bill to gain a partisan advantage. On the far left, the administration has touted the bill as a transformational piece of green-energy legislation. On the…#republicans
Source: Reuters: Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines: ‘It’s too many steps’
Appearing in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg testified Thursday that it was hard for his small search engine company to compete with Google because the powerhouse has deals with phone companies and equipment manufacturers to make its product…#gabrielweinberg #google #apple #verizon #mit #pennsylvania #creepy #edwardsnowden #facebooks #cambridgeanalytica
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Are Paxlovid and Lagevrio Equals?
(MedPage Today) -- Both nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) and molnupiravir (Lagevrio) were associated with a reduction in death during the COVID-19 Omicron era, a large retrospective study of electronic health records from the Cleveland Clinic...
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - September 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

How Wastewater Testing Can Help Tackle America ’ s Opioid Crisis
Among the many lasting legacies of COVID-19 may be a newfound appreciation for the value of what we flush down the toilet and wash down the drain. Wastewater can be a rich source of information about infectious diseases, like COVID-19, as well as flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), mpox and polio, since pathogens like viruses are shed in feces, urine and saliva, all of which is drained into sewage treatment plants. Sampling that water is a good way to screen for certain viruses, and, as more people bypass the medical system and labs in favor of testing themselves at home for things like COVID-19, health agencies lik...
Source: TIME: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Yoga and meditation recommended to reduce blood pressure
Healthcare professionals should consider stress reduction and mindfulness therapies for patients with high blood pressure, researchers say. Based on the latest clinical and scientific evidence, an international panel of experts from 18 countries have made a series of recommendations on effective lifestyle changes that can help manage and prevent high blood pressure. Making time for... Read moreThe post Yoga and meditation recommended to reduce blood pressure appeared first on Nursing in Practice.
Source: Nursing in Practice - September 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Carolyn Scott Tags: Cardiology blood pressure Exercise hypertension Source Type: news

Innovative Health Brings EP Labs' Carbon Emissions into Focus with New Sustainability Calculator
Advanced medical device reprocessor launches free tool to help hospitals quantify the reduction in carbon emissions possible with a proper EP reprocessing program. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Innovative Health, Inc. today launched a new educational initiative...
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - September 21, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PDT Source Type: news

Column: What a utopian experiment in government by computer can teach us about building a humane future
Resembling the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, the Project Cybersyn ops room was designed to look and feel cutting-edge. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called “other 9/11” — , led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, that ended in the death of the democratically elected president,…#starshipenterprise #augustopinochet #salvadorallende #chile #projectcybersyn #guibonsiepe #edenmedina #mit #santiago #evgenymorozov
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Our Vocabulary Is Adapting to a Hotter Planet
Discussions of climate change began even before Broecker’s paper, without any of the white-hot rhetoric that has characterized much of our approach to the issue since. In 1973, a team of environmental scientists published a paper in MIT Press under the title “Study of Man’s Impact on Climate.” They labeled that impact “inadvertent climate modification.” The phrasing, while accurate enough, never caught on. NexisLexis counts just 11 uses of the term from 1968 to 2023, with the earliest occurring on Feb. 9, 1988, on a PBS program about math and science education. “The first test w...
Source: TIME: Science - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Flexible retirement options for NHS staff – information for branches
This article explores the options available to NHS Pension Scheme members. UNISON branches should ask their employer/s to discuss flexible working policies and seek to negotiate fair and equitable processes for applications. Members who retire must notify UNISON to update their membership to ensure they remain members. What is changing? From 1 April 2022, all active pension scheme members in the NHS are in the 2015 Section of the NHS Pension Scheme. Many NHS staff will have accrued pension benefits in either or both of the two legacy sections(1995 section and 2008 section ). New flexibilities coming in from 1 October 2023 ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Hassan Govia Tags: Article Source Type: news

With blistering public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator and investors, Y Combinator appears curiously on the defensive lately
Y Combinator has been on the defense as of late. This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) in their reaction to a comment made by the CEO of another accelerator at an event. Ali Partovi, who founded Neo in 2017, was the keynote speaker at…#ycombinator #alipartovi #partovi #garrytan #mit #yc #billgates #reidhoffman #sherylsandberg #satyanadella
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How much stuff does it take to not be poor? About 6 tons per year
How much stuff do people need to lead a decent life? It’s a hard, and subjective, question. But researchers have now estimated for the first time what it takes, quantitatively speaking, to keep one person out of abject poverty : about 6 tons per year of food, fuel, clothing, and other supplies, researchers report this month in Environmental Science & Technology . The first-of-its-kind estimate is “a remarkable step forward,” says Stefan Bringezu, an expert in sustainable resource management at the University of Kassel who was not involved with the research. “They shed light on the physical basi...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

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