Archive for July 2024

Nine-year-old Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, Charlie Johns, 22, at their home in Sneedville, Tennessee, in 1937.

Two big items in Kinnock’s in-tray are planned reforms to the adult social care charging system and Labour’s own plans to improve the pay, terms and conditions of the sector’s workforce.

In May there were between 350 and 400 patients being cared for in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire area who were well enough to leave. The figures showed patients staying longer than three weeks after a discharge decision was made stayed in hospital for about 3,500 extra days.

The researchers developed models to predict how quickly people’s scores would decline on a test of thinking and memory skills. Then they compared the models to actual results from people over time. They studied 961 people with an average age of 65 — 310 had mild cognitive impairment and 651 had mild dementia. All had the amyloid-beta plaques in their brains that are an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease and are targeted by the new drugs.

Researchers have developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI models with the programming language SQL to provide faster and more accurate results than other methods.

In 2019, a large affordable housing operator implemented a unique program meant to reduce evictions across its properties. Several years, one pandemic, and an economic downturn later, we check in to see how the landlord—and the tenants—are faring.

Life expectancy in the United States has decreased for the first time in decades. This troubling trend is a rarity in developed nations. One of the main factors driving this decline is the escalating drug overdose crisis. More than 110,000 Americans died by drug overdose in the 12-month period ending in March 2023. To put this in perspective, 58,000 US military personnel died throughout the entire 15-year course of the Vietnam War a half century ago…. More than 47 million people in the US are struggling with a substance use disorder.