Author: admin

Philips Respironics reached a $1.1 billion settlement over claims that people using CPAP and other breathing devices were harmed by harmful gases and blobs of foam that settled in their airways, sometimes For years.Thousands of people have claimed in lawsuits that they were injured by the popular Philips DreamStation machines. The deal covers CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, machines that people with sleep apnea or other breathing difficulties use at night to improve breathing, as well as other types of machines used at home and in hospitals.According to a financial report released Monday, Philips did not admit any fault in the settlement, nor whether the devices caused the injuries.The personal injury settlement follows a $479 million settlement reached in September for econ...

Russian troops captured or entered half a dozen villages on Ukraine's eastern front last week, highlighting the deteriorating situation in the region for outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces as they long await American military aid necessary.“The situation at the front has worsened,” General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine's commander-in-chief, said in a statement on Sunday in which he announced that his troops had withdrawn from two villages west of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the the east occupied by Russia. earlier this year, and another village further south.Military experts say Moscow's recent advances reflect its desire to exploit a window of opportunity to carry out attacks before the first batch of a new American military aid package arrives in Ukraine to help ...

Gözler, insanoğlunun en büyüleyici özelliklerinden biridir. Doğal renklerini değiştirmek veya daha çekici bir görünüm elde etmek isteyenler için Labella lensler, kusursuz bir seçenek sunar. Renkli lensler artık sadece bir ihtiyaç değil, aynı zamanda moda dünyasının da vazgeçilmez bir parçası haline geldi. Gözlerinize yeni bir soluk getirmek ve tarzınızı daha da öne çıkarmak için Labella lens koleksiyonunu keşfedin. Doğal ve canlı renk seçenekleriyle, her zevke ve her tarza uygun bir seçenek bulabilirsiniz. Renkli lens modelleri sadece günlük kullanım için değil, aynı zamanda özel günlerde de makyajınızı tamamlayıcı bir unsur olabilir. Ancak renkli lens kullanırken göz sağlığınızı korumak da önemlidir. Bu noktada, doğru lens solüsyonu kullanımı hayati önem taşır. Lensfiyat.com, geniş ...

Call it the end of the beginning of the AI ​​boom.Since mid-March, financial pressure on several AI startups has had a negative impact. Inflection AI, which raised $1.5 billion but earned next to nothing, has abandoned its original business. Stability AI has laid off employees and parted ways with its CEO. And Anthropic has raced to close the roughly $1.8 billion gap between its modest sales and huge expenses.The artificial intelligence revolution, it is becoming clear in Silicon Valley, will come at a very high price. And the tech companies that have bet their futures on it are scrambling to figure out how to close the gap between those expenses and the profits they hope to make in the future.This problem is particularly acute for a group of high-profile startups that have raised tens ...

World Central Kitchen said Sunday it will resume operations in Gaza with a local team of Palestinian aid workers, nearly a month after the Israeli army killed seven of the organization's workers in targeted drone strikes on their convoy.Israeli military officials said the attack was a "serious mistake" and cited a series of failures, including communication breakdowns and violations of military operating procedures.The Washington-based aid group said it was still calling for an independent international investigation into the April 1 attack and that it had received "no concrete assurance" that the Israeli military's operating procedures had changed. But the “humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire,” the humanitarian group's director of operations, Erin Gore, said in a stat...

For decades, the idea of ​​standing upright has carried with it considerable political and social baggage. Sagging was considered a sign of decay.In the early 20th century, posture exams became essential in the military, workplace, and schools, thanks in part to the American Posture League, a group of physicians, educators, and health officials formed in 1914. In 1917, one study found that approximately 80% of Harvard freshmen had poor posture. Industrialists have continued to accumulate posture-improving chairs, products and gadgets.But current science doesn't support conventional wisdom about correct posture, argues Beth Linker in her new book, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America." Dr. Linker, a historian and sociologist of science at the University of Pennsylvania, recently ...

The Ukrainian marine infantryman endured nine months of physical and psychological torture as a Russian prisoner of war, but was given only three months of rest and rehabilitation before being sent back to his unit.The infantryman, who asked to be identified only by his call sign, Smiley, willingly returned to duty. But it was only when he underwent intense combat training in the following weeks that the depth and extent of his wounds, both psychological and physical, began to emerge.“I started having flashbacks and nightmares,” he said. "I only slept two hours and woke up with my sleeping bag soaking wet." He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and referred for psychological treatment, and he is still receiving treatment.Ukraine is just beginning to understand the las...

A Moses Lake, Wash., factory that closed its doors in 2019 will soon resume shipping a key ingredient used in most solar panels and that for years was produced almost exclusively in China.The revival of the factory, owned by REC Silicon, could help achieve a long-standing goal of many American lawmakers and energy executives to re-establish a complete domestic supply chain for solar panels and reduce the world's reliance on plants in China and Southeast Asia. .REC Silicon reopened the factory that produces polysilicon, the building block of most solar panels, in November in partnership with Hanwha Qcells, a South Korean company that is investing billions of dollars in solar panel production in the United States. As part of the deal, Hanwha said this month it became the largest shareh...

The lobby of the Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel is mostly empty and silent. The roar of warplanes and intermittent thunder of artillery replaced the sounds of doctors, orderlies and patients at this major hospital near the Lebanese border.Almost all hospital staff and patients went into hiding.To reach the hospital's nerve center these days requires navigating 15-foot-high concrete barricades and multiple armored doors, then descending several floors into a labyrinthine underground complex.That's where thousands of patients and hospital workers have been for the past six months as attacks have intensified between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia in Lebanon, just six miles to the north.The underground operation at the Galilee Medical Cent...

In the 10 years since drugmaker Gilead launched a breakthrough treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies have been used to cure millions of people around the world from the blood-borne virus.Today, 15 countries, including Egypt, Canada and Australia, are on track to eliminate hepatitis C within this decade, according to the Center for Disease Analysis Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Each pursued a dogged national screening and treatment campaign.But the arsenal of drugs, which have brought tens of billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies, has not brought the United States any closer to eradicating the disease.Spread through the blood including intravenous drug use, hepatitis C causes inflammation of the liver, although people may not show symptoms for years. Only a ...