On December 29, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced first-year state awards from the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (the “rural health fund”), which is being administered by a new Office of Rural Health Transformation. The rural health fund was created as part of the July 2025 budget reconciliation law,…
Inevitably, these conversations take a turn: AI is having all these ripple effects now, but if the technology gets better, what happens next? That’s usually when they look at me, expecting a forecast of either doom or hope. I probably disappoint, if only because predictions for AI are getting harder and harder to make. Despite…
An overhaul of US childhood immunisation guidelines has dropped the number of diseases children should be vaccinated against from 17 to 11. The new list of recommended vaccines, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, includes polio and measles vaccines, but others, like hepatitis A and B, and Covid vaccines, are…
Charlie Brown Dani-Rae Brown could not move her legs at five months old, when her first symptoms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) started to show Parents of babies born with a life-limiting, rare condition say their diagnoses came months too late, and after they had initially raised the alarm about their symptoms. Dani-Rae Brown was…
Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Getty Images Nestle has issued a global recall of some baby formula products over concerns they contain a toxin which can cause food poisoning. The food and drink giant said specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula were not safe to be fed to babies. The batches were sold…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images The new NHS online hospital service being launched in England next year will initially focus on menopause, prostate and eye conditions. The NHS has selected nine different conditions in total for the service which will be available through the NHS app in 2027. The service, which was first announced in…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production,” Huang said during a press event on Monday at the annual CES technology trade show in Las Vegas….
Hard to believe it’s that time again, and that Metasploit Framework will see the dawn of another Annual Wrap-Up (and a New Year). All of the metrics and modules you see here would in large part not be possible without the dedicated community members who care about the Framework and its mission on all the…
For several decades, Boston Dynamics has pioneered the development of advanced robots, including humanoids and four-legged systems tested by the military as a way to carry supplies over rough terrain. The company was sold to Google in 2013 and was bought by SoftBank in 2017. In 2021, Hyundai acquired a controlling stake. In recent years,…
