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An MRI scan can spot people at risk of heart disease a decade before a potential stroke or heart attack, according to a study.University of Dundee researchers collected data from 5,015 volunteers between 2008 and 2013. At the time, none had a history of heart disease or were at immediate risk. However, 10 years on, they found an increased (but normal) mass of the heart’s left ventricle was a “clear indicator” of the risk of future cardiovascular disease.The risk was the same even if the organ was functioning as expected at the time of the tests.The study also found men…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli, and the city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.“Rock Creek has high levels of…
[SHANGHAI] Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com have opened a new front in the ongoing battle for market share, with both expanding aggressively into so-called instant retail centred around delivery speeds of 30 to 60 minutes this year.Investors will be dissecting the strategy when JD.com reports its quarterly earnings on Tuesday and Alibaba on Thursday, as finding new avenues for growth has proven challenging for China’s largest online retailers.Their market penetration is already high and prices for goods are under pressure due to a consumer slowdown driven by concerns about employment and wages as well as a prolonged property market…
CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Robertson, MD, as System Senior Vice President, Physician Enterprise – California Region for CommonSpirit Health and Chief Executive Officer of Dignity Health Medical Foundation (DHMF).
The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office, according to court documents filed on Monday in a lawsuit over the deletion.The deleted data included pages on federal funding and loans, forest conservation and rural clean energy projects. It also included sections of the U.S. Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service sites, and the U.S. Forest Service’s “Climate Risk Viewer,” which included detailed maps showing how climate change might affect national forests and grasslands.The lawsuit, filed in February, said the purge denied farmers information to make time-sensitive decisions…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee included $500 million for federal IT modernization and artificial intelligence in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill text set to be marked up Tuesday as Republicans work towards a final package. The Commerce Department would be able to use the appropriated funds to replace or update legacy business systems and deploy AI at the department through 2035. Also tucked inside the text is a moratorium on states and “political subdivisions” enforcing “any law or regulation” regarding AI models and systems for the next decade. States have taken different approaches to regulating AI, triggering concerns about a patchwork…
The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to void the results of the internal party vote that made David Hogg a party vice chair, ruling that the election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures.The decision — which came after roughly three hours of internal debate and one tie vote — will put the issue before the full body of the Democratic National Committee. It must decide whether to force Mr. Hogg and a second vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, to run again in another election later this year.Mr. Hogg, 25, an outspoken survivor of the 2018 school…
As a Biden administration ban on so-called “junk fees” took effect Monday, Ticketmaster said it will start displaying the full price of a ticket as soon as consumers begin shopping.Ticketmaster, long a subject of complaints about its hidden fees, was among those targeted by the new rule, which was announced in December by the Federal Trade Commission. The rule requires ticket sellers, hotels, vacation rental platforms and others to disclose processing fees, cleaning fees and other charges up front.Ticketmaster said Monday it commended the FTC’s action.”Ticketmaster has long advocated for all-in pricing to become the nationwide standard so fans can…
Apple is planning a radical redesign of the iPhone for 2027: For the 20th anniversary, a model with a borderless display and invisible front camera should appear. The group wants to set new standards – but this harbors considerable technical challenges.Anniversary iPhone is said to have revolutionary designApple will launch at least one iPhone model with a completely borderless display in 2027. The front camera and the Face ID system should disappear under the screen and are no longer visible to users. The technology group is planning a new design direction that is supposed to realize the long -term vision…
President Trump and his business partners promoted it as the world’s most “EXCLUSIVE INVITATION” — a dinner with the president of the United States for the cryptocurrency investors who bought the most of his family’s memecoin, called $TRUMP.But as the unusual contest came to a close on Monday, at least 17 of the 220 winning bidders had figured out a way to effectively outsmart the sponsors of the contest.These crypto investors had secured an invitation to the dinner even though their online wallets showed that they held zero of the memecoins, a type of novelty digital currency often based on…