(2025-01-04). Advances in pancreatic cancer screening. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Getty Images Pancreatic cancer screening has advanced significantly in recent years. There are now research-based guidelines on screening for people at high risk of developing the disease, and researchers are collaborating to develop new screening approaches involving genetic testing and artificial intelligence (AI). "We have high-quality studies from the U.S. and Europe that show screening can detect cancer at an earlier stage and that detection leads to better overall outcomes — most notably, improved survival,"…
(2025-01-04). 10 pioneering studies from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine in 2024. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In 2024, collaborative efforts with Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine led to significant advances in understanding the biology that shapes health and disease. From new treatments for rare diseases to artificial intelligence-powered tools that help personalize care, these 10 studies exemplify this year's transformative progress. 1. Innovative tool measures health of a person's gut microbiome Mayo Clinic researchers, led by Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., developed an innovative computational tool that analyzes the gut microbiome, a complex…
(2025-01-04). Minnesota Partnership awards four collaborative research grants for 2024. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Getty Images ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (MNP) has announced its four research awardees for 2024. MNP is funded by the State of Minnesota and provides support for innovative research conducted by teams from the University of Minnesota (UMN) and Mayo Clinic. Totaling $3 million, this year's awards support innovative projects on cognitive aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer and pulmonary hypertension. They are: An essential role for complement signaling in microglia on…
(2025-01-03). How Vouchers Harm Public Schools. popularresistance.org Voucher programs for schools are rapidly expanding across the country. Under these programs, public budgets provide funding to parents to either send their children to private school or homeschool them. | These programs' growing popularity raises the question of whether letting public money leave the public school system and subsidize private forms of schooling is a way to improve children's access to an excellent education. EPI's analysis shows that vouchers harm public schools. | To illustrate the damage, EPI has developed a tool that estimates fiscal externalities—the dollar costs to school districts fro…
(2025-01-03). FDA Lab Uncovers Excess DNA Contamination in COVID-19 Vaccines. globalresearch.ca An explosive new study conducted within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) own laboratory has revealed excessively high levels of DNA contamination in Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. | Tests conducted at the FDA's White Oak Campus in Maryland found that …
(2025-01-03). Bank Employees Sell Your Financial Data to Scammers. Paul C. Roberts. globalresearch.ca
(2025-01-03). US police killed record number of people in 2024. wsws.org For over 10 years, Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, has documented a steady increase in police killings in the United States, including over 1,250 in 2024.
(2025-01-03). Condemn the tragic attack in New Orleans. Reject scapegoating of Middle Easterners, Muslims and Immigrants. workers.org 
New Orleans The Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana) issued the following lightly edited statement on Jan. 1, 2025. Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We condemn it completely. We also call . . . |
(2025-01-03). What Oren Cass Sunstein Could Learn From Henry George Costanza. counterpunch.org 
Oren Cass's "What Economists Could Learn From George Costanza"(The New York Times, December 23) has forgotten what economics Henry George taught. That's the pundit named Cass who invariably calls for constrictions on consumers, as opposed to Cass Sunstein's advocacy of "choice-preserving but psychologically wise interventions" that would make "automatic enrollment in government programs" the default (in the words of