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While some previous cyberattacks have targeted a single hospital or smaller medical networks, the collapse of Change, which manages a third of all U.S. medical records, underlined the dangers of consolidation when one entity becomes so essential to the system national healthcare. Ascension systems remain down indefinitely, but doctors and nurses are working to find ways to access some information about patients' medical history by examining medical records kept by other providers. Ascension is also telling doctors and nurses that they will soon be able to see existing digital records. “It's a huge inconvenience for everyone involved,” said Kristine Kittelson,…

An Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that killed dozens of displaced Palestinians drew widespread international condemnation on Monday, with world leaders calling for an investigation into the attack and stepping up pressure on Israel to put an end to his military campaign in the south. .French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he was "outraged" by the explosion and called for "full respect for international law and an immediate ceasefire."“These operations must stop,” he said, referring to Sunday's strike. “There are no safe areas in Rafah for Palestinian civilians.” The attack came just two days after the…

In a recent research report on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, Deutsche Bank analysts noted that “constant improvements to already astonishingly powerful generative AI models show how the technology has quickly become table stakes for industry leader. sector". They said that the major players in the sector cannot “afford to fall behind in the early stages of the push before market positions are consolidated”. OpenAI, which unveiled the ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022, has roughly tripled its valuation over the past year or so to $80 billion, with about $13 billion in backing from Microsoft. Anthropic, founded in 2021,…

The biggest problem with blood tests is that, unlike colonoscopies, they do not detect most precancerous growths on the colon that, if detected and removed, would prevent a person from developing cancer. This, said Dr. Stephen M. Hewitt, a board member of the National Cancer Institute, “really undermines the concept of cancer prevention.” The test, said Charity J. Morgan, a committee member and professor of biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, “is better than nothing for patients who get nothing, but it's no better than a colonoscopy.” And there are many people who get nothing. The FDA noted…

When he was a cocksure 25-year-old, on the fast track to officiating big-time college basketball, Scott Foster was summoned for a sit-down with his dad. They met at a bar, and his father, Dickie, brought along a family friend with experience in high-level sports. They were concerned about Foster, who was mulling a daring career move. It was 1992, and he had been offered a job in the Continental Basketball Association, then a training ground for the NBA, making $95 a game. But to do so, he would have to forgo his schedule — and career path — of officiating…