Health Watch

Commentary: Who keeps crashing China’s stock market?

Over the past decade, the domestic market has endured at least three bear runs that prompted emergency government bailouts, says Shuli Ren for Bloomberg Opinio…

Simon Winchester, Author of ‘The Professor and the Madman,’ Has Died

He was a geologist who switched careers and became a prolific and adventurous journalist. He died at 82.

Buy the dip or wait it out? Young investors react as retail stock selling hits one of its highest levels since COVID crash.

Some see another buying opportunity. Others fear the worst isn’t over. A market rout is testing the instincts of a generation raised on quick rebounds.

Yamashita shares first-round LPGA lead in Japan as she tries for two wins in a row

Miyu Yamashita, who won the LPGA's Maybank Championship in Malaysia over the weekend, was among three players atop the leaderboard after Thursday's first round…

Seeds, preserved hair in tomb point to oldest signs of cannabis high 2,800 years ago, study suggests

People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought — at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Archaeologists who led a dig a…

Russell Brand convicted of rape

Russell Brand, the risqué comic who bragged for years of his sexual exploits, was convicted Thursday of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others o…

Democratic socialist Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoral race over incumbent Karen Bass

Major shake-up as LA councilmember, once considered long shot, ousts Democratic rival she had once endorsed Who is Nithya Raman, Los Angeles’s next mayor? Nith…

I’m surprised I haven’t won TGMA Rapper of the Year – Teephlow

For a rapper who has earned multiple nominations at Ghana’s biggest music awards, never taking home the Rapper of the Year trophy is a record Teephlow finds di…

Austrian tycoon Rene Benko sentenced to 2 years in prison for fraud

Austrian businessman Rene Benko, who suffered a major fall from grace after his real estate empire, Signa Holding, went bust, was handed two more years in pris…

The blame game: How the US midterm shock is shaping Israel’s race for PM

The Republican midterm rout is helping shape who leads Israel next, as Netanyahu’s US ties turn toxic.

This pancreatic cancer treatment is on track for ‘one of the best drug launches of all time’

Revolution Medicines’ brand-new treatment brought in far higher sales than expected in its first few weeks on the market.

Tanzania Ruling Party Wins Chamwino Seat

Dr Netho Ndilito of Tanzania's ruling CCM won the Chamwino seat with 70,974 votes, succeeding Deogratius Ndejembi, who became vice president. The post Tanzania…

Colombia Court Orders Senate Records Search

Colombia's Supreme Court ordered a Senate inspection to collect the contracts of Deicy Jiménez, who accused ex-President Petro, who denies it. The post Colombi…

The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thought

The global health and economic benefits of the covid-19 vaccines were thought to have reached up to $38 trillion in their first year, but a new analysis sugges…

Who Decides What Africa Reads First?

Every morning, someone decides what Africa reads first. Usually it is not one person. Often it is not a person at all. It is a recommendation algorithm tuned f…

Whole-body MRI, designed for women | Rebecca Rakow-Penner, MD, PhD | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

The virtual future of cancer research | Gege Qian | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

Who gets into medicine and why it matters for patients | Mimi Hudson | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

Cancer as an ecosystem | Leslie Crews, PhD | TEDxSanDiegoSalon

Democrats’ big election win revives a difficult Social Security question: Who pays?

There are many ideas for saving Social Security. All of them will hurt.