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Sat, June 3, 2023 | 06:34

By avoiding funding Alzheimer's research, the government is cutting seniors' life spans

Millions of patients and their caregivers breathed a collective sigh of relief when drugmaker Eli Lilly recently announced its new experimental Alzheimer's medication appears to slow cognitive decline by 35 percent. The Food and Drug Administration could approve the new treatment, donanemab, as soon as this year.

2023-05-23 16:00

America's health care system benefits the insurance industry, not patients or doctors

Could this be the year when America starts to shift away from the employer-sponsored health insurance model?

2023-05-22 16:00

Can today's AI truly learn on its own? Not likely

One of the boldest, most breathless claims being made about artificial intelligence tools is that they have “emergent properties” - impressive abilities gained by these programs that they were supposedly never trained to possess. “60 Minutes,” for example, reported credulously that a Google program taught itself to speak Bengali, while the New York Times misleadingly defined ...

2023-05-21 15:50

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' has a powerful message about animal testing

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" is a fun superhero comedy-action Marvel movie-but it has an unexpectedly compelling message. As the film reveals Rocket Raccoon's backstory, moviegoers learn that our beloved hero (voiced by Bradley Cooper) was the subject of cruel laboratory experiments run by the High Evolutionary, an evil villain void of compassion. Fellow Guardian Nebula s...

2023-05-18 16:10

Policy is at a crossroads in a deeply troubled Afghanistan

Nearly 21 months after the U.S. withdrawal from a two-decadelong misadventure in Afghanistan, an increasingly polarized Washington continues to ask the same old questions. Who lost Afghanistan? Was Afghanistan ever America's to win? Who is at fault for the collapse of the Afghan security forces, which U.S. taxpayers funded to the tune of $89 billion? And could the Biden admin...

2023-05-18 16:05

Real show at CNN town hall was the audience, not the stage

Who needs a poll for the 2024 GOP presidential primary when you have Wednesday's CNN town hall audience rooting and tooting for former President Donald Trump, the more outrageous his statements the better?

2023-05-17 16:46

Is your fridge filled with 'expired' food? Here's why you shouldn't throw it away

If on digging through your fridge you find food stamped with a phrase such as “Enjoy by,” “Best before,” “Expires on” or “Sell by” followed by a date that has passed, you might think it's time to throw it away.

2023-05-16 16:00

Oceans are heating up and El Nino will make it worse

Even if you hate the beach, live inland and aren't bothered by dwindling fish, the latest spike in ocean temperature matters to you. The ocean is like a huge closet where we've been able to store 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. That closet is now stuffed. The latest readings from more than 4,000 buoys around the world show record-breaking sea-surfac...

2023-05-15 16:00

After verdict in sexual abuse case, will Trump pay a political price? That's up to his GOP rivals

There is a long list of descriptors used to identify Donald Trump: real estate magnate, reality TV star, former president, insurrectionist, criminally indicted payer of hush money.

2023-05-14 16:10

How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans' apathy about climate change

Christian theology and global politics can make strange bedfellows. Consider the intimate relationship between fundamentalist expectations of Jesus' return and market-driven disregard for the environment.

2023-05-11 16:05

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