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ABC’s votes are in: American Idol will return for an 18th season (its third on ABC), TVLine has learned. Though an exact premiere date has yet to be announced, it’s safe to assume that the search for America’s next superstar will resume sometime in Jan. 2020. With ratings down sharply vs. Season 2, rumors abound […]
Unable to attract full-time anesthesiologists, the only hospital in Maniwaki, Que., is being forced to tap into a costly provincial program to pay visiting doctors for piecemeal work, or face the closure of its surgical department.
NICE has rejected a new blood cancer drug, Yescarta, which is for the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, for NHS use due to the drug being too expensive.
New cyberwar policy, body scanners in Los Angeles, and more of the week’s top security news. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b775046f521ce3ac9ba4594/master/pass/China-Security-992616844.jpg
Reuters The US military began privatizing housing more than a decade ago because it was supposed to protect service members’ families. Instead, some of their children are being poisoned by lead, and inspections are discouraged in part because lead abatement can be costly. From 2011 to 2016, Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas – which processes […]
IF A girl in a poor country goes to school, she will probably have a more comfortable life than if she stays at home. She will be less likely to marry while still a child, and therefore less likely to die in childbirth. So, not surprisingly, there is an Indian charity that tries to get […]
A new report by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) showed that 318 natural disasters which occurred last year and affected 122 countries have resulted in lower mortality than in previous years. Floods and hurricanes, as well as landslides and a number of other natural disasters, claimed 9,503 lives compared to […]
A pediatric cardiologist from Marietta, Georgia, has admitted illegally providing confidential patient data to US pharmaceutical company Aegerion. The information was to help the company mismarket a costly drug. Dr. Eduardo Montana, 55, pleaded guilty in a Boston court hearing to disclosing 280 patients’ “individually identifiable health information” to Aegerion. Last September, the company was […]
– Automakers are making nearly continuous improvements to vehicle engines and structures by alloying their steels with an evolving list of special ingredients such as manganese, titanium, chromium, and nickel. But for electric cars, the essential recipe for making the physics work in electric motors and batteries can seem more than a little daunting. – […]
After its negligence on Russian election hacking, the Trump administration is taking Russia’s global malware attack more seriously. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8610a5f6b8e47907fd8935/master/pass/NotPetya-Russia-RTX4NQB6.jpg
