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Why a diabetes drug fell short of anticancer hopes

Pamela Goodwin has received hundreds of emails from patients asking if they should take a cheap, readily available drug, metformin, to treat their cancer. It’s a fair question: Metformin, commonly used to treat diabetes, has been investigated for treating a range of cancer types in thousands of studies on laboratory cells, animals, and people. But...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 14:56
Over 86% of surveyed health care providers are short on IV fluids

More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene's rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North Carolina that makes 60 percent of the country's supply. IV fluids are used for everything from intravenous rehydration to drug delivery. The plant also...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 01:10
Climate change boosted Milton’s landfall strength from Category 2 to 3

As attempts to clean up after Hurricane Milton are beginning, scientists at the World Weather Attribution project have taken a quick look at whether climate change contributed to its destructive power. While the analysis is limited by the fact that not all the meteorological data is even available yet, by several measures, climate change made aspects...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 00:22
Ex-Twitter execs push for $200M severance as Elon Musk runs X into ground

Former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are urging a court to open discovery in a dispute over severance and other benefits they allege they were wrongfully denied after Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022. According to the former executives, they've been blocked for seven months from accessing key documents proving they're owed...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 00:22
5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy

Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the big three record labels against Grande Communications, a subsidiary of Astound Broadband....

Fri Oct 11, 2024 22:42
Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux working on Apple Silicon Macs—have managed to do all three of these things at once. The feat brings together a perfect storm of open source projects, according...

Fri Oct 11, 2024 22:42

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