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Compassion & Choices: “The Dementia Values and Priorities Tool is designed to help you communicate your wishes regarding future care if you are living with dementia. After answering a series of questions related to the changes commonly seen in the progression of dementia, the tool will provide you with a document that can be added …
Fortune via Yahoo Finance – and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts: “Despite concerns from debt hawks, the U.S. government is continuing to borrow at pace: For the fiscal year of 2026 so far, the federal deficit has totaled just under $1.4 trillion. The first nine months of this …
Incredible Health: “AI adoption among nurses nearly tripled in a single year. Yet almost half of those using AI report little or no time saved. Drawing on a survey of 2,240 U.S. nurses and data from 1.5 million healthcare professionals, the 2026 Annual State of Nursing Report reveals a workforce moving faster than its employers. …
ABCNetAU: “The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz almost immediately caused a fuel price shock felt in bank accounts around Australia. Even if the Strait returns to normal, that shock will keep sending prices up in a range of industries. Economic ripples will filter through to a plethora of products, such as plastics, fertilisers, building …
Private Equity Stakeholder Project: “Behind nonprofit partnerships, private equity firms are building a growing footprint across hospitals, hospice, rehabilitation, and outpatient care. Over the past decade, private equity has dramatically expanded its presence across the healthcare system. While much of the public attention has focused on traditional acquisitions of hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and …
Washington Post – no paywall: “Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis…Although proof of AI consciousness is lacking, many in tech fascinated by the topic are already discussing the moral consequences of finding sentient software. Within decades, there …
Zeteo: “The Trump administration’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl. It sketches the architecture for a national surveillance system built from some of Americans’ most personal data: prescriptions, toxicology results, wastewater, electronic health records, license plate scans, and law enforcement intelligence. The plans are laid out in the 2026 National …
The Guardian “A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood. The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness about frozen embryo …
Washington Post – no paywall: “A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in The analysis used the same methodology that CDC’s interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in the weekly scientific report of the Centers for Disease Control …
Washington Monthly – “One more reason rebuilding local news is vital. Academic research suggests that whether it’s an obituary, a puff piece, or news of a sale on tuna at the grocery, local news makes us feel less alone. “When thinking about the harms caused by the collapse of local news, our minds might first …
Via LLRX – Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits – Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners. Roxsy Lin informs us that during these sessions, mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared …
Glass Empire, W.E. Lawrence: “On June 9, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report. He signs as Secretary of Health and Human Services, a trustee. The report fixes trust fund depletion at the fourth quarter of 2032, and federal law then converts that projection into a cut that arrives without a …
