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Gaza’s Health Care System Is Under ‘Severe Threat’

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the World Health Organization’s condemnation of an Israeli raid on a Gaza hospital, South Korean officials seeking an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Georgia inaugurating a new leader.  Gaza’s Health System Under Severe Threat Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization […]

World Meditation Day: Feeling low? Here’s how to take care of mental health according to spiritual guru Ravi Shankar | Today News

World Meditation Day: In a world where “feeling low” and experiencing “anxiety attacks” have become common, meditation emerges as a solution for addressing various mental health issues. Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar delivers a keynote address at the inaugural session of the first-ever World Meditation Day at the United Nations headquarters in New York. […]

U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids • Daily Montanan

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday cleared a national defense authorization bill celebrated for troop pay raises but condemned by Democrats for targeting transgender children in military families, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk. Senators voted 85-14, with one, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, not voting, to approve the $884.9 billion National Defense Authorization […]

Senate passes $895bn Pentagon spending bill despite provision denying transgender care to minors – live

Senate passes Pentagon spending bill The US Senate has voted 85-14 to pass the $895bn National Defense Authorization Act, legislation which ignited a debate about providing gender-affirming care to transgender children of military service members. The bill which passed in the House last week 281-140 included a provision added by the Republican House speaker, Mike […]

Knoxville Orthopaedic Surgery Center Earns Top National Award for Outstanding Quality of Care for Fourth Consecutive Year | Knoxville Chamber

For the fourth consecutive year, Knoxville Orthopaedic Surgery Center (KOSC) has been named a Leapfrog Top Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). The facility is one of only 31 surgery centers selected nationally for the competitive award, which recognizes the highest patient safety standards.  Ambulatory surgery centers are premium health care facilities that provide outpatient procedures. The […]

Developing artificial intelligence tools for health care

Reinforcement Learning, an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, finds a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University researchers. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a class of machine learning algorithms […]