Could aluminium become the packaging ‘champion’?
MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Meadow Some packaging firms are betting on aluminium In front of…
How Will the 2025 Reconciliation Law Affect the Uninsured Rate in Each State?
President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025 a budget reconciliation package (formerly called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that will make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, relative to its estimates of insurance coverage prior to the law being enacted,…
Royal Papworth Hospital pays out after bacteria-linked deaths
Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire Family handouts Anne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospital A hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply. Three patients died and…
I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers
Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3…
Children in NI treated different to those in the rest of the UK
Julie McCullough BBC News NI BBC Danny, 13, who was diagnosed with myopia when he was seven, is not able to use his NHS voucher towards treatment for the condition Children with short-sightedness are being stopped from using NHS vouchers to help pay for new treatment unlike in other parts of the UK, Northern Ireland…
Oswestry gym with wellbeing focus welcomes lottery boost
Meg Elliott BBC Shropshire Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Kevin Braddock said the question for many was how to start A gym set up with a focus on the wellbeing of body and mind has been awarded a £14,000 lottery grant to develop its work. The Soma Space in Oswestry was established…
KFF/ESPN Survey of 1988 NFL Players
Key Takeaways Across a range of measures, former NFL players from the 1988 season report being in worse health and experiencing more frequent pain and higher levels of disability compared to men their age in the general population, even when controlling for race. Former players are about three times as likely as other men their…
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one…
A Look at the New Executive Order and the Intersection of Homelessness and Mental Illness
President Trump recently signed an executive order on homelessness, mental health, and substance use that leverages federal funding priorities and other administrative tools to encourage states to ban public drug use, remove unhoused people from public spaces, and broaden civil commitment laws to permit involuntary psychiatric civil commitments in more circumstances. It also instructs the…
Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions on Global Health
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions, January 20, 2025 PURPOSE: Initial rescissions of Executive Orders and Actions issued by President Biden. Among these orders are several that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and global health security, such as Executive Order 13987 (Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective…
U.S. Foreign Aid Freeze & Dissolution of USAID: Timeline of Events
Starting on his first day of his second term in office, President Trump and his administration have taken several executive actions that directly impact U.S. global health efforts. This timeline, which is a companion resource to components of KFF’s Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions on Global Health, provides a detailed overview of actions, including…
