A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts…#google #amazon #yahoo #layoffsfyi #techlayoffs #mirandahalpern #flourish #discord #hackerone #dunzo
Source: Reuters: Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy
The World Health Organization says round 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Aug 2 2023 (IPS) Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity’s well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of the World Health Organization (WHO). “Climate change is unquestionably affecting our health every day,” says Vanessa Kerry– a renowned global health expert and medical doctor – who was appointed the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Climate Action Climate Change Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

How to Watch Tonight ’ s Supermoon —and Why It ’ s So Special
The sturgeon living in the Great Lakes don’t have a lot to do with the moon—or at least they didn’t until the Algonquin Native American tribe came along. The Algonquins discovered that sturgeon were most plentiful in the lakes in August, and so they paid a small tribute to that fact. When a full moon appeared in the sky in that month, they dubbed it a sturgeon moon. But it wasn’t just any full moon that would earn the honorific. It had to be a so-called supermoon—one of which will occur today, Aug. 1. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Supermoons are striking cosmic spectacles, a...
Source: TIME: Science - August 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

What is kombucha? Why should people with diabetes drink it?
Kombucha is a tea fermented with bacteria and yeasts and was consumed as early as 200 B.C. in China, but it did not become popular in the U.S. until the 1990s. It is said to be associated with improved immunity and energy, and reductions in food cravings and inflammation.
Source: The Economic Times - August 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet?
Lance Unger has been doing things a little differently lately on his farm near the Wabash River in southwestern Indiana. After last fall’s harvest, rather than leaving his fields fallow, he sowed some of them with cover crops of oats and sorghum that grew until the winter cold killed them off. And before planting corn and soybeans this spring, Unger drove a machine to shove aside yellowing stalks—last season’s “trash,” as he calls it—rather than tilling the soil and plowing the stalks under. For these efforts, a Boston-based company called Indigo paid Unger $26,232 in late 2021 and an even larger chunk lat...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Blue-light filtering spectacles probably make no difference to eye strain, eye health or sleep quality
Spectacles that are marketed to filter out blue light probably make no difference to eye strain caused by computer use or to sleep quality, according toa Cochrane review of 17 randomised controlled trials of the best available evidence so far.  Nor did the review, led by authors from the University of Melbourne and published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, find any evidence that blue-light filtering lenses protect against damage to the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.Blue-light filtering lenses, also known as blue-light blocking spectacles, have been increasingly prescribed or rec...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - July 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Roche enters partnership with Alnylam to co-develop and co-commercialise RNAi therapeutic zilebesiran to treat hypertension in patients with high cardiovascular risk
Partnership combines Roche ’s proven track record of successfully developing and launching innovative medicines worldwide withAlnylam ’s leadership in RNAi therapeuticsZilebesiran, a Phase 2 RNAi therapeutic, has best-in-disease potential for patients with hypertension at high risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, by robustly and durably lowering blood pressureHypertension, the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, affects more than 1.2 billion adults worldwide. While several therapies exist, a significant unmet need, especially for high risk patients, remains.1Basel, 24 July 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OT...
Source: Roche Media News - July 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Cost of Wasted Cancer Drugs May Exceed $4,000 Per Patient
(MedPage Today) -- The average cost of wastage associated with dose reductions or discontinuations of oral cancer drugs was found to be considerable, according to an economic evaluation of 22 medications. Looking at the best-selling oral anticancer...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - July 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on wildlife-aircraft collisions at US airports - Altringer L, McKee SC, Kougher JD, Begier MJ, Shwiff SA.
Exploiting unprecedented reductions in aircraft movements caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated the relationship between air traffic volume and the frequency of wildlife-aircraft collisions, or wildlife strikes, at the 50 largest airports in the...
Source: SafetyLit - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

'Exciting' siRNA Therapy for Hypertension Passes First Hurdle
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with hypertension successfully dialed down their angiotensinogen levels and had lasting reductions in blood pressure (BP) following one injection of an investigational small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy, according...
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - July 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Pioneering Mission Bay biotech company Fibrogen to cut more than 100 jobs
The company last month promised cost reductions after its drug pamrevlumab failed two late-stage clinical trials, in the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 19, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news

Oil and gas methane reductions less expensive than paying carbon tax, study finds
New research using the latest figures for Canada’s methane emissions concludes it would be much cheaper for the energy industry to meet reduction targets for the potent greenhouse gas than it would be to pay carbon taxes on it. “The federal government’s target for 75 per cent reduction is…#krischapman #dunskyenergy #montreal #environmentaldefence #chapman #ottawa #dunsky #pembinainstitute #alberta #aripottens
Source: Reuters: Health - July 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pharmacy-Level Stewardship Can Save on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
TUESDAY, July 11, 2023 -- Adoption of pharmacy-level stewardship strategies for immune checkpoint inhibitors could generate sizable reductions in spending for these drugs, according to a study published in the July issue of Health Affairs. Alex K....
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 11, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Mackenzie Investments cuts jobs, including senior management, in shakeup by new CEO
We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Mackenzie Investments cuts jobs, including senior management, in shakeup by new CEO The reductions at one of Canada’s largest mutual fund managers came in two rounds,…#mackenzieinvestments #michaelschnitman #michaelcooke #adamrivers #claytonbittner #mackenzie #igmfinancialinc #igm #ryandickey #quebec
Source: Reuters: Health - July 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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