The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced last week that its investigational drug, orforglipron, proved effective in a third late-stage clinical trial. The once-daily pill helps patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes lose weight and lower their blood sugar levels. Still, challenges remain, which include relatively high discontinuation rates that appear to be the result of adverse side effects, as well as questions pertaining to pricing and insurance coverage once the product is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The highest dose of orforglipron helped patients lose on average 10.5% of their weight, or 22.9 pounds, on average at…
August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, a moment to commemorate those we’ve lost and to take action to prevent further overdoses, fatal and non-fatal. Some might wonder if this is still really a major public health issue when the CDC reported a 25% decline in overdose deaths in the…
Alien: Earth continues to be a show I wish I loved, but keep having a hard time enjoying. The show’s production value remains (mostly) quite good, and a few of the performances are spellbinding. Babou Ceesay’s Morrow is a gripping antagonist. Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh is a captivating synth whose motivations…
The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. In June, a child in Kansas, John, sent a picture of his father’s rifle to a woman called Sarah, whom he’d befriended on TikTok earlier that day. That’s because…
Looking for Monday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Time for a new strands and you’re going to have to use your nose for this one. How To Play Strands The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in…
Who the heck is Brandon Sklenar? If you’ve been surfing around comic book Twitter at all the past few weeks, you’ll find his name coming up over and over again in relation to a very specific part. And it seems possible that James Gunn is actually considering him for it.…
The global shark meat trade is… complex, to say the least. Sharks are caught, processed, and traded across continents, with millions of pounds of meat and fins moving through international markets every year. While much public attention focuses on the trade in shark fins, which are prized in some Asian…
James Gunn and John Cena’s Peacemaker” Season 2 adds new characters, including ARGUS Agent Sasha Bordeaux, played by Sol Rodriguez. What else has Rodriguez starred in? Peacemaker Season 2 premiered Thursday night on streaming on HBO Max and cable on HBO. The logline for the second season reads, “In Season…
It’s now less than three weeks until the iPhone 17 series is revealed — it looks like Tuesday, Sept. 9 is the date of the Apple keynote, and there are full details of the schedule here. But if you’re in the mood for a bargain, prices are dropping at places…
‘Range anxiety’ is the fear of running out of battery charge before reaching a destination or a charging station. It is a term first reported in the San Diego Business Journal on September 1, 1997, by Richard Acello to describe the worries of GM EV1 drivers, General Motors’ first mass-produced…
Epic Systems is launching several new artificial intelligence tools for medical care providers and patients while working with health insurers to improve the patient experience. Epic, which has been led by its 82-year-old founder Judy Faulkner for 46 years is best known for its dominance in the electronic health record…
President Trump has pledged to provide Americans with a vastly reformed healthcare system that’s affordable, innovative and elevates patient care above anywhere else in the world. Despite the political shell games being played by liberal Democrats, the media and even some Republicans, much of President Trump’s policy agenda has broad…
Update, Sunday August 17, 2025: This article has been updated with details on Google AI cloud services. Google is set to launch the new Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro smartphones later this week. The Pixel 10 Pro line (including the regular Pro, and both the Pro XL and Pro…
Looking for a little help with your Sunday Connections puzzle? The New York Times has set a pretty solid challenge with today’s puzzle, so if you’re looking for extra clues – or the answers – you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find an extra set of clues, the…
Ireland’s National Heritage Week kicks off on August 16, offering free entry to more than 70 normally fee-paying historic sites. The week-long celebration is a timely reminder to think about how to keep heritage alive—no small task in a country with an estimated 30,000 castles and castle ruins. But Ireland…
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