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Flexible Work Experts Share How To Keep Company Culture Alive

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Balancing Flexibility with Cultural Cohesion The American Academy of Neurology, a global professional medical association with about 200 employees, has embraced a flexible work environment that includes both hybrid and remote models. Their insights offer valuable lessons for any organization charting this complex terrain.

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The one thing the Trump administration got very right

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For better and for worse It was in this contradictory context that the NIH last month announced it had defunded a set of controversial studies on baby monkeys run by Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone. To put my own cards on the table, I think these experiments are pretty much impossible to justify.

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RFK Jr. just fired the government’s vaccine experts. Here’s how that could affect your shots.

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. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images For the past 60 years, a committee of independent experts has advised the federal government on vaccine policy, providing guidance on which shots people should get and when. And it means that the CDC’s days as the clear and unchallenged authority on US vaccine policy appear numbered. “Up Kennedy Jr.

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The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained

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At oral arguments, several justices suggested that, in order to uphold Tennessee’s law, they might make sweeping changes to the rules governing all sex-based discrimination by the government — Roberts, for example, floated giving the government broad authority to discriminate on the basis of sex in the medical context.

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We’re secretly winning the war on cancer

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Living in remission The fact that Jon is still here, talking to me in 2025, tells you that things didn’t go the way the medical data would have predicted on that November morning. In the 1960s, for example, only around 10 percent of children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia survived more than five years. This cannot be true.”

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It’s surprisingly hard to know just how many people will die because of USAID cuts

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And second, other actors change their behavior in response to US policy. The Gates Foundation, for example, plans to accelerate its spending to help fill the void left by the US; I know of other, smaller funders trying to do the same thing. The Lancet study, for example, controlled for health spending by country.

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Landmark EU Legislation Will Shape the Future of Ethical AI Practices in the Workforce

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One pressing example would be AI policy established to protect free and open elections by addressing the potential misuse of AI deepfakes in elections. Examples of these kinds of programs would be spam filters and content recommendation systems. electrical grids or water systems), will face more demanding requirements.