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Insulet has reinstated the chief commercial officer position nearly three years after eliminating the role to pursue more focused regional and local market execution. In May 2023, the insulin pump maker split the CCO function into two leadership positions. Following the departure of CCO Brett Christensen in connection with the reorganization, Insulet created a new equivalent role overseeing the U.S. with International General Manager Patrick Crannell reporting directly to the CEO. At the time, Insulet said its U.S. managers would drive enhanced and consistent global commercial capabilities. Mr. Crannell and Carolyn Sleeth, who joined Insulet in September 2023 as U.S.…
good morning. Reporters receive countless email pitches every day. Just yesterday I received one that mentioned Hannah Montana in the subject line. But the pitch that started Elaine Chen’s latest article isn’t one we usually see. The subject line said “Urgent: Paid Reservation.” A new field of learning about the connection between mind and body Earlier this year, Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that schizophrenia could be “cured” by changing one’s diet. Although experts say this is not true, there is a growing group of scientists interested in the relationship between nutrition, diet, and mental health. Stanford…
Headway, a platform that connects patients with insured mental health providers, announced Tuesday that it has acquired the team at artificial intelligence company Tej. The company said in an announcement that it plans to integrate the team into broader engineering and product development to ensure that AI is “developed responsibly while improving the experience for patients and healthcare professionals.” “Today’s mental health system makes it harder than expected for patients to find the right support and for clinicians to stay focused on their jobs,” Headway founder and CEO Andrew Adams said in a statement. “We believe that AI can help…
Climate change and pollution are driving a global health crisis, with heat-related deaths surging 23% and air pollution claiming millions of lives annually. Discover mitigation strategies for resilience.
Those who have completed more years of formal education tend to score lower on measures of right-wing authoritarianism, which is characterized by strict obedience to leaders and adherence to traditional norms. A recent study of twins revealed that while some of this association may be a direct result of schooling, most of the association is explained by the siblings’ shared childhood environment and genetics. These results were recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. In the wake of the devastation of World War II, psychologists launched a major effort to understand why certain people enthusiastically support dictators and…
More than a year into President Trump’s second term in the White House, a grim and undeniable record of attacks on science has been established. Every month since his inauguration has included multiple actions targeting science, scientists, and science-based policies. These are not just individual incidents; taken together, they illustrate how planned and deliberate attacks on federal science infrastructure are causing real harm to people and the planet today, and putting us all at risk in the long run. We tracked and classified from January 20, 2025 to March 6, 2026. 562 unique attacks on science. Some of the most…
Since their invention in the 1960s, lasers have transformed both science and everyday life, powering everything from grocery store scanners to vision-correcting surgeries. Traditional lasers work by controlling photons, which are individual particles of light. But in recent decades, researchers have extended this idea to other types of particles, such as phonons, tiny units of vibration and sound. Mastering phonons can unlock entirely new capabilities, including access to rare quantum effects such as entanglement. Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a new type of squeezed phonon laser that can precisely control these oscillations…
eMed raises $200 million in funding to build an AI agent platform and offer new models to employers, including GLP-1 therapeutics programs. This funding round raised the company’s valuation to $2 billion. AON Consulting led the round along with notable investors former NFL player Tom Brady, Founding Chief Wellness Officer Jeff Aronin, and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Paragon Biosciences. Ara Cohen, co-founder and co-managing member of Knighthead Capital Management; Antonio Gracias, Founder and CEO of Valor Equity Partners. Joe Lonsdale, Founder and Managing Partner of 8VC and Co-Founder of Palantir. RJ Melman, CEO of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, Tom…
The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital and privacy rights organization, is suing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for more information about a multistate program that uses artificial intelligence to evaluate requests for medical care. The nonprofit filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against CMS seeking disclosure of records related to the Wasted and Inappropriate Services Reduction (“WISeR”) model. The WISeR model uses AI to evaluate prior approval applications. CMS rolled out the Innovation Center model in June to test new prior authorization requirements in traditional Medicare. It will be launched on January 1st and…
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have identified surprising properties in a type of material known as perovskite that could pave the way for a new generation of optically controlled semiconductor devices. Their findings were published on March 3. advanced materialsshow that halide perovskite crystals can change shape when exposed to light and then return to their original shape. Perovskites are a type of semiconductor, but they behave very differently from traditional materials such as silicon and gallium arsenide. These can be made from a mixture of organic and inorganic ingredients and are often cheaper to produce. These differences…