I missed this back in March, but gepotidacin, a triazaacenaphthylene, was approved for uncomplicated UTI in women. It's a topo IV inhibitor and DNA gyrase inhibitor, which is interesting. Here's a nice review. Seems to be similar to ciprofloxacin in it's dosing and side-effect profile.
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Even Disney was thinking about using AI-actors instead of real ones. But they chickened out at the last minute.
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The cancer centers, QIMR Berghofer Institute and even the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia suspected they had a fake cancer researcher, but did nothing to stop him because he was raking in a lot of money. PNAS just put out a report stating that scientific research fraud is escalating.
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Semaglutide can reverse aging by about 3 years. The test was done on subjects with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy, so one has to be careful. But it probably pertains to others as well. So it's like metformin.
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Of course. The UK is going to go after VPN users. Good luck with that. And how will they defeat those who use Tor? Dissidents have been eluding authorities for years.
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the subsidized group worked somewhat less, devoted a bit more time to leisure activities, and spent more money on health care without seeing significantly improved health outcomes.
It just gives people more unearned leisure time and spending money.
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Joining the open source world. OpenAI released two open-source models, gpt-oss-20b and -120b. Fun!
And speaking of which, one of the few things Tina Kotek did right: get some of Jensen Huang's money to introduce AI into schools. Don't screw it up, Tina, and mandate DEI programs that exclude Asians. But why did it have to be built in Corvallis? Not the right place. Shoulda built it in Hillsboro.
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Why are physicians getting paid less while more is demanded of them? Blame it on Baumol's Cost Disease. Doctors have little control over their destiny these days.
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Cool. AI can pick out a subtle brain tumor in an MRI scan. It can also spot a hiker's helmet in mountainous terrain.
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WTF??? In Oregon, Medicaid won't cover tummy-tuck sugery, unless it's for trangenders. What does transgender have to do with the need to have this done? Unlike Medicare, Medicaid is a joint federal-state run insurance plan. So idiotic restrictions like this get put into place. And since the Medicaid money isn't coming in, Oregon is spending $1.9 million to get as many as they can onto private insurance.
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Trump's tax bill will cut Oregon's revenue by $1 billion in the next two years. Oregon calculates your taxable income based on what the federal taxable income is, so having a lower federal taxable income hurts Oregon revenue. Can you guess what will happen next?
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