Stanford researchers have developed a breakthrough device called the milli-spinner thrombectomy, which uses compression and shear forces to safely shrink and remove blood clots, significantly improving first-attempt success rates in stroke and clot-related disease treatments.
According to a paper published just days before Apple's WWDC event, large reasoning models (LRMs) — like OpenAI o1 and o3, DeepSeek R1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, and Google Gemini Flash Thinking — completely collapse when they're faced with increasingly complex problems. The paper comes from the same researchers who found other reasoning flaws in LLMs last year.
Amazon's healthcare business will be divided into six new units as part of a restructuring effort, in a move that comes after recent top health executive departures. CMO Sunita Mishra stepped down last month, while Aaron Martin, who has been the vice president of the healthcare unit, is also set to step down. This reorganization follows a series of other executive departures, including Vin Gupta, who served as CMO of Amazon Pharmacy, and Trent Green, the CEO of One Medical.
Veterans' advocates have worked for years to stop unaccredited consultants from charging vets thousands of dollars for help filing disability claims, but setbacks in court and on Capitol Hill indicate their quest to ban the deep-pocketed companies could be in peril. With Republicans in control of Congress, a bill legalizing for-profit claims consultants nationwide will advance to a full House of Representatives vote, the first time such a measure has made it out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Meanwhile, a competing bill introduced by a Democrat, which would crack down on for-profit companies by imposing criminal penalties, has not advanced.
Corporate investors hoping to take over local healthcare facilities in Oregon could soon face one of the hardest markets nationwide. Senate Bill 951, which was quietly signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek this week, sets the strongest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices in the nation. A similar effort failed in the Legislature last year amid pushback from Republicans that prevented the bill from meeting key legislative deadlines.
Medtronic has announced that its planned spinoff diabetes business will be named MiniMed, reviving the original name of the company acquired by Medtronic in 2001. The separation is expected to complete within 18 months, subject to various conditions.