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New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense.

The fatalities come amid declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.

"[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity."

A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.

Counting the creatures in the world around us is critical for a raft of conservation efforts. It helps scientists gauge biodiversity, track migration, and spot invasive species. That census-taking, though, often requires humans to tabulate what they see, trap, or otherwise sense—a potentially laborious, costly process that can still leave gaps. But developments over the…

5:00 PM. Laptop closed. Slack closed. Workday over. Except my brain didn't get the memo. I'm making...

There are currently 3 categories. Without reason, RFK Jr. is considering changes.

By the end of the day my eyes burn. The screen goes fuzzy for a second when I look up, focusing on something across the room takes longer than it should, and a dull headache creeps in around the temples. I used to write this off as "just tired." Turns out it has a name and a fairly simple mechanism behind it. What computer vision syndrome actually is Computer vision syndrome — digital eye strain, if you prefer the plainer name — isn't a diagnosis in the sense of "something broke." It's a cluster of symptoms that shows up after prolonged close-range screen work: dryness and burning, blurred focus when you shift your gaze to something far away, light sensitivity, headaches, and often neck and shoulder pain, because we unconsciously lean toward the screen and freeze in one position for hours. Two things happen at once. First, your eyes hold focus on a near object for a long stretch — the ciliary muscle, which controls how the lens changes shape for near vision, stays tensed the whole time instead of periodically relaxing the way it would if your gaze wandered farther away now and then. Second, you blink noticeably less often while concentrating, so the tear film that keeps your eyes moist doesn't get replenished as frequently — hence the dryness. Why a screen and not a book Reading a book for hours also holds your focus at close range, but it strains your eyes less, and there's a reason for that. A screen emits light rather than reflecting it the way paper does, which creates more contrast against the room's ambient lighting, especially if the room is dimmer than the display. Glare from windows and lamps forces you to squint and refocus. And a laptop or phone tends to sit closer to your face than a book or a printed document would, simply because the screen is smaller. There's also the nature of the work itself. Reading a book is a steady stream; working with software is a constant series of micro-refocuses between windows, tabs, and notifications. Your eyes keep re-ad

Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity.

Building a Scalable, HIPAA‑Compliant Healthcare Document Processing Pipeline in .NET & Azure Quick Answer A deep dive into architecting a production‑grade Healthcare Document Processing Pipeline—covering AI extraction, FHIR integration, vector search, and compliance at scale. In my experience, the biggest cost is not the AI model, but the orchestration that turns raw scans into audit‑ready FHIR resources. The right mix of services can reduce latency by 30‑50% while keeping the bill below 10% of the raw compute budget. Choose services that expose a BAA and native hybrid search (Azure Cognitive Search) to avoid a second compliance layer. Prioritize deterministic scaling (Container Apps + Aspire) over elastic serverless when real‑time SLAs are tight. Version your embeddings; treat the vector index as a first‑class contract. HIPAA‑Ready High‑Volume Document Ingestion When a health system starts ingesting thousands of paper‑to‑digital documents per day, the naïve “scan‑and‑store” approach quickly becomes a compliance and performance nightmare. The real challenge is to produce HIPAA‑ready, FHIR‑compliant, low‑latency data that can be consumed by downstream clinical decision support or billing systems. Compliance is not a checkbox; it’s a series of audit trails that must survive a 30‑day retention policy and survive a forensic review. In production, the cost of a single PHI exposure can exceed the annual budget of the entire platform. Real‑World Example Consider a mid‑size hospital that receives 25,000 inpatient discharge summaries, 8,000 lab reports, and 12,000 imaging PDFs every month. Each document is a mixture of scanned images, PDFs, and legacy forms. The billing team needs structured diagnoses and procedure codes within 30 seconds to avoid claim denials, while the analytics team wants similarity search for rare disease cases in the last 12 months. The pipeline must: Extract structured entities with ≥95% accuracy. Redact PHI in transit and at rest. Provide audit logs

Luxury water can contain different minerals and taste noticeably different. But a remote source, alkaline pH, and high price do not necessarily mean better hydration.

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.

I founded Krasyn, an outpatient EMR with an AI scribe inside it. Krasyn has run a working outpatient clinic's real patient records since March 2026, so what our scribe drafts ends up in charts that real clinicians sign. This post covers two things we shipped in August: a published benchmark of how faithful those drafts are to the transcript, and Note Check, a tool that reads any scribe's note against its transcript and lists what the transcript does not support. Why a fluent note is the problem A faithful note and a note with one invented blood pressure look the same on the screen, and the clinician who signs it owns every sentence. Published evaluations put ambient-scribe hallucination at about 1 to 3 percent of notes. A March 2026 analysis of 71,173 AI-drafted and finalized note sections found a confirmed edit in 5.8 percent of them. The drafting got automated. The checking did not. I wanted a number for our own scribe that I could defend, with the definitions printed next to it. A benchmark without definitions is marketing. The unit: a clinical assertion We measure at the level of a clinical assertion, one atomic statement about the patient that could be true or false on its own. "Denies fever, chills, and nausea" is three assertions. A measurement and its value are one. Hedging is kept verbatim. Every assertion gets exactly one label against the transcript: Supported: the transcript says it, or it is a faithful paraphrase or clinical translation. Inferred: not stated, but a reasonable clinical inference with a basis in the transcript. Tracked separately because it is the contested category. Unsupported: no basis in the transcript at all. Contradicted: the transcript says the opposite, including a symptom the patient denied, a treatment the clinician declined, or another person's symptom attributed to the patient. Hallucination rate is unsupported plus contradicted over all assertions. Coverage is measured separately against key facts per case, because a note tha

After two years of testing, these are the electric toothbrushes that impressed WIRED staffers the most.

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think…

The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.

An effort to transform the world of sports through steroid use doesn't exactly seem to be bearing financial fruit.

From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.

The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.

With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula—for a price.