Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday said Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte is “not qualified” to permanently serve as Director of National Intelligence, pointing to his lack of experience in the realm of national security. “He’s not qualified for the long-term position, that’s been clear on this. He has no national security… Source link
A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus. As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people’s own immune cells and reprogrammed them in a lab to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single infusion of the modified cells, two individuals with HIV now have undetectable levels of the virus—one for nearly two years and the other for almost a year. Both have been able to go off HIV medications entirely. The two people are part of a small study to test the treatment’s safety and feasibility. The initial findings were announced last week at the of American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy annual meeting in Boston. “These are early days. If we can provide the proof-of-concept that this approach is both safe and effective, then there are lots of ways in which it can be optimized, to make it more affordable and scalable,” says Steven …
Becoming a parent at a younger age tends to be linked with poorer long-term financial, educational, and physical health outcomes that only begin to level out if a person delays having a child until their late twenties or early thirties. A recent study published in the journal PLOS One provides evidence that having a child early in life disrupts standard life transitions, creating persistent disadvantages that follow parents well into adulthood. These findings suggest that public support programs aimed at young parents might be more effective if they included individuals up to age thirty. Scientists Jordan MacDonald and David Speed designed this study to explore the specific age at which the negative impacts of early parenthood begin to stabilize. Previous research typically placed teenage parents into a single rigid category, which ignored the exact age a person had their first child. For MacDonald, a psychology researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick, the motivation to pursue this topic was highly personal. “I became a father at 17, and across school, work, social …
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been together for 43 years, and are as in love today as they were when they first began dating. The Hollywood couple often get asked about their relationship – which they make look effortlessly easy – and their reasons behind choosing not to get married. Goldie often opens up about their love story in interviews, and famously wrote about it in her 2005 memoir, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, where she explained that while it might seem like the easy option, choosing not to marry makes the couple work harder at their relationship. © Getty ImagesGoldie Hawn previously opened up about her reasons for not marrying Kurt Russell On being questioned about getting married, she wrote: “I laugh it off and say, ‘Been there, done that.’” She added: “And if that sounds like an excuse not to work at the relationship, it isn’t. If anything, it makes us work harder. I try to remind myself each morning why I am in love.” In the memoir, she also reflected: …
Taking common cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins does not appear to affect an older adult’s long-term risk of developing dementia. While these drugs reliably protect the heart, they do not seem to offer secondary protection against cognitive decline. The findings from a massive observational study were recently published in the journal Neurology. Statins are widespread prescription medications designed to lower low-density lipoprotein. Medical professionals frequently refer to this specific lipid as the “bad” cholesterol. It is a waxy substance that circulates in the bloodstream and can accumulate inside arterial walls. When this buildup occurs, the arteries become unnaturally narrow and stiff. That narrowing process creates a heavy strain on the cardiovascular system. Restricted blood flow deprives tissues of oxygen and drastically increases the chances of experiencing a heart attack or a stroke. Statin medications step in to disrupt this dangerous buildup by strictly limiting the liver’s ability to produce the waxy compound. Lowering the amount of circulating lipids helps keep blood vessels open and healthy over the long term. Researchers have suspected that vascular health …
A 1-year longitudinal study showed that the adoption of Surrender to God, a religious coping strategy, was associated with almost 3 times lower odds of substance use relapse over the course of one year in Christian patients, if the use of this strategy is measured using an implicit association task. However, explicit measurement of the application of this coping strategy was only associated with slightly decreased odds of relapse after a month, but not at 6- and 12-month assessments. The paper was published in Addictive Behaviors Reports. Surrender to God is a religious coping strategy in substance use disorder recovery in which people relinquish their own desires and actions in order to follow what they believe to be God’s will. It may support recovery by helping people shift attention away from substance-related reinforcers and toward a future-oriented, transcendent source of meaning and support. This process has been described as humble detachment: letting go of preoccupation with craving while prioritizing awareness of God’s active and loving presence. In this way, surrender to God may reduce worry, …
The HORIZON 2020, WIDESPREAD-06-2020-ERA Chairs, funded the ESEI-BioMed project for advancing tumour diagnostics and nanomedicine in the frame of the new translational research centre, TRANSCEND, at the Regional Institute of Oncology Iasi, Romania The ESEI-BioMed project titled “Enhancing and Strengthening the Excellence in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at TRANSCEND” is currently implemented within the TRANSCEND Research Centre at the Regional Institute of Oncology Iasi (IRO). After almost six years of implementation, the official funding period of the project will end in December 2026. Briefly, the ambitious goal of the project is to promote an institutional reform aiming at unlocking the research potential and becoming a visible nanomedicine research hub for oncology on the map of the European Research Area (ERA). To achieve this objective, the project seeks to establish a model of leadership defined by experience, professional excellence, and excellent research management in the field of nanomedicine. According to the Nanomedicine Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2016-2023 published by the European Technology Platform for Nanomedicine (ETPN), nanomedicine has the potential of revolutionising medicine and providing cost-effective …
The Parliament also called for more earmarking of funds for EU programs, and the imposition of new, EU-wide taxes on online gambling, tech giants such as Amazon and Google, and crypto firms. The Commission’s proposal for the 2028 to 2034 period envisages €1.8 trillion for expenditure on areas such as subsidies for farmers, industrial development and international aid schemes. In addition, it earmarks around €165 billion to pay back the common debt that was issued to finance the EU’s post-Covid recovery package — a measure that makes the total budget rise to €1.984 trillion. Parliament is calling for the total size of the budget to be expanded to €2 trillion, excluding the Covid debt repayments. That would effectively mean increasing its size by 10 percent. “We believe we cannot do more with less, that is a myth,” said Siegfried Mureșan of the conservative European People’s Party, who is the Parliament’s lead budget negotiator alongside Carla Tavares of the Socialists & Democrats. Source link
Leslie Adams holds a photo of his mother, Shirley, who died after developing infected bedsores at a rehabilitation center, according to a lawsuit he filed. A court awarded the family $17 million, but they are still trying to collect it. Taylor Glascock for KFF Health News hide caption toggle caption Taylor Glascock for KFF Health News By the time she was hospitalized in 2020, Pearlene Darby, a retired teacher, had suffered open sores on both legs, both hips, and both heels, as well as a five-inch-long gash on her tailbone. She died two weeks later at age 81 from infections and bedsores, according to her death certificate. Her daughter sued the nursing home, alleging it had left Darby sitting in her own feces and urine time and again. The lawsuit, settled on confidential terms last year, blamed not only the managers of City Creek Post-Acute and Assisted Living but also the building’s owner, a real estate investment trust, or REIT. In the year Darby died, City Creek paid CareTrust REIT more than $1 million in …
Brain implants offer incredible promise for treating medical conditions and restoring lost senses, but the rigid materials often used to make them can cause long-term damage to delicate neural tissue. A recent study published in Advanced Science revealed that making these devices out of a soft, flexible plastic rather than stiff silicon drastically reduces scarring and preserves healthy brain cells. These results provide a practical guide for designing the next generation of safer, longer-lasting neural interfaces. For many years, medical engineers have relied on tiny electronic devices to interface with the nervous system. These microelectrode arrays can record electrical signals from brain cells and deliver mild currents to stimulate them. This technology has successfully helped retrieve motor commands for paralyzed patients and could eventually help restore vision to blind individuals. Most commercially available brain implants are made from rigid silicon. Because the brain pulses and shifts slightly inside the skull, a stiff piece of silicon can scrape against the surrounding tissue. This constant rubbing triggers a steady immune response that degrades the local environment. When …
