Author: KnowledgeHippo
Determining whether someone has Alzheimer’s usually requires an extensive diagnostic process. A doctor takes a patient’s medical history, discusses symptoms, administers verbal and visual cognitive tests.The patient may have a PET scan, MRI or spinal tap – tests that detect the presence of two proteins in the brain, amyloid plaques and tau tangles, both of which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.All that could change dramatically if new criteria proposed by an Alzheimer’s Association task force are widely adopted.Its final recommendations, expected later this year, will accelerate a shift already underway: from defining disease based on symptoms and behavior to defining…
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced Monday that they will not seek to overturn a court order that blocked their planned $3.8 billion merger. The decision is a major victory for the Biden administration, which has sought to curb corporate consolidation.Pulling out of the deal will cost JetBlue. Under the terms of the deal, he must pay Spirit a breakup fee of $69 million and Spirit shareholders $400 million.A federal judge in Boston blocked the proposed merger on Jan. 16, siding with the Justice Department in ruling that the merger would reduce competition and give airlines more room to raise…
French lawmakers voted on Monday to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so.Fully aware that they were breaking historic ground from the grand assembly hall inside the Palace of Versailles, the politicians gave impassioned speeches about women’s rights around the world, paid tribute to the courageous French women who had fought for abortion rights when they were illegal and decreased. and again to offer a standing ovation.”We are sending the message to all women: Your body belongs to you and no one has the right to control it…
For Trevor Barker, a freshman at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, a $1 billion gift from a longtime former professor that will eliminate medical school tuition could very well be life-changing.Mr. Barker works two jobs on campus and sends money home to his mother in California. He expected to graduate hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. But the free tuition made him think about new options for his career.”I hadn’t really gotten around to thinking about family medicine, but I might have wanted to,” he said.Family medicine doctors do everything from delivering babies to caring for…
On a rooftop patio in downtown San Francisco on Thursday afternoon, tech workers from Google, Slack, X and Mozilla mingled next to a pair of cardboard Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.Dustin Moskowitz, founder of Facebook, chatted as others sipped cocktails like the Fremen Mirage (gin, coconut cabaret, sweet vermouth) and Arrakis Palms (vanilla pear puree, gin, Fever-Tree tonic). Tim O’Reilly, a tech industry veteran, is gone. Alex Stamos, former head of security at Facebook, was also identified.”Do you think they’ll let me take home one of the freaking buckets of sandworm popcorn?” someone in the crowd tittered. The evocatively designed bins…
In December, Google spent $700 million to resolve claims by states that its Play Store had powerful app makers with high fees and harsh terms. About six weeks after that, Google paid $350 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of improperly sharing users’ personal information.On Monday morning, a Massachusetts company called Singular Computing said it had settled its lawsuit with Google over allegations that the tech giant had stolen the chip’s designs. Singular said in a press release that it had “entered into a patent settlement and license agreement with Google.”Google is also on the brink of a fourth…
As I emerged from the anesthesia, I saw my children by my bed. It was the first time we had all been together in years. At that moment I understood, perhaps for the first time, how deeply I was loved. If a fatal brain tumor was the price I had to pay for it, I considered it a fair deal.Old wounds hardly heal, of course, and there were many ways this gathering could have gone south. And yet, something profound had happened. The presence of my family told me we were in this together. I hoped we would continue to…
Settling into the first tram of the morning at Vermont’s Jay Peak Resort last month, I looked down to see a young boy wearing a neon helmet pressed against the window, his father by his side, as excited as I was to ski at the feet of the fresh snow. My boyfriend said he was 10 years old. I asked him why he liked coming to Jay Peak.”Because of Jay Cloud,” he said matter-of-factly, as if it were obvious. “It has the best snow.” The world outside the aerial tram car suddenly turned from blue to white. Sixty of us…
Vice President Kamala Harris called on Sunday for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, saying Hamas must agree to the six-week truce currently on the table and that Israel should increase the flow of aid to the besieged enclave in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. .Ms. Harris’ remarks, made in Selma, Ala., bolstered President Joe Biden’s recent push for a deal and came a day before she met with a top Israeli cabinet official involved in war planning, Benny Gantz. Her tone echoed a sharper and more urgent tone coming from the White House as its frustration with Israel grows.…
While the boards of trustees of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania weighed the fate of their presidents in tense closed-door meetings this month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s board immediately issued a statement of dubious support for its president, Sally Kornbluth.Faculty leaders, department heads, and deans at MIT soon followed with their own endorsements of Dr. Kornbluth, who along with the presidents of Harvard and Penn gave evasive, legalistic responses to a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism. Donors are not flocking to social media to demand her removal. many students, busy with exams, paid little attention to the spectacle.Dr.…