Ryan Lanham

Don’t let a billing code be a barrier to treatment How a strong collaboration between clinical and billing teams can simplify J-code decoding, paving the way for improved patient access to innovative

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Jennifer Doudna spinoff aims to turn patients’ immune cells into CAR-T fighters with single shot Azalea's first drug candidate is a CAR-T therapy for cancer and autoimmune conditions that turns immune cells into cancer fighters with a single shot.

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Is baseball still America’s game? The Blue Jays are changing the idea of who baseball is for | CBC Arts Jays fan Sadaf Ahsan and sports journalist Shireen Ahmed examine the cultural changes at play.

“The way that we see the #BlueJays being presented as a friendly, inclusive, cohesive unit, which is really lovely, is also speaking volumes on what's happening globally and politically in those two different countries, where we're not seeing that inclusivity.”

#TeamCanada #WorldSeries #GoJaysGo

Opinion | The Doctor Who Hates Medicine

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Can Trump Contain Israel’s Hard Right? Israel’s extremists aren’t giving up on settling Gaza. Trump’s regional agenda depends on restraining them.

My latest: For the moment, Trump has stuffed the Israeli hard right into a locker, vetoing settlements in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank. One far-right politician even boycotted his Knesset speech. But if Trump doesn't keep them in a box, they'll capsize all plans for peace in the Middle East:

Metal ions turn DNA into a 3-state memory device By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a tiny electronic transistor

By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a tiny electronic transistor. cen.acs.org/materials/el... #chemsky 🧪

mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests The potential reasons that a Covid vaccine would help treat cancer are intriguing.

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Opinion | Senator Ruben Gallego Has Three Words For Democrats Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.

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Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

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London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.

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This from the head of mission alignment at OpenAI in the last few hours (Joshua Ashiam):

"The world isn't grappling enough with the seriousness of AI and how it will upend or negate a lot of the assumptions many seemingly-robust equilibria are based upon."

A new day is upon us.

Amgen says its cholesterol shot prevented heart problems in a broad population Amgen said its cholesterol-lowering shot, Repatha, prevented a composite of heart disease death, heart attack, and the most common type of stroke in a large study.

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A CNN/SSRS poll, released Friday, found that 75 percent of U.S. adults believe the country’s political system needs a complete or major reform. Just 4 percent said the system is fine as is.

According to "The Hill"

Hegseth puts us all at risk Why put all the American commanders in one room?

Hegseth puts us all at risk
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RFK Jr. ally’s ‘smoking gun’ study on vaccines and chronic illness is fundamentally flawed Bogus study on vaccines and chronic illness presented at Senate presents “a dangerous precedent for how science is weighed in policymaking,” infectious disease expert writes.

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Scott Bessent, Sleazy Smearer About the Treasury secretary’s vile, dishonest slander of the Fed

Scott Bessent, Sleazy Smearer
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The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Some thoughts on AI, Money, Super-Intelligence, and Near-term Shifts in Economics July 29, 2025

Some thoughts on AI, Money, Super-Intelligence, and Near-term Shifts in Economics
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Some Notes on AI, Society, Economics and Change Superintelligence, however plausibly defined, changes everything

Some Notes on AI, Society, Economics and Change
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Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
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Ukraine has officially approved the heavy unmanned ground platform Protector for operational use.

Protector can transport ammunition or gear, evacuate the wounded, serve as a mobile platform for remotely operated weapon systems, and perform electronic warfare and signals intelligence missions.

Tesla's robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators | TechCrunch Federal safety regulators have reached out to Tesla a day after the automaker began providing rides in its branded robotaxis in Austin.

Tesla robotaxis swerving into the wrong lane and driving over the speed limit have already caught the eye of federal regulators, as @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social uncovered.

And in two instances, a robotaxi suddenly hit the breaks near police vehicles in adjacent parking lots.

BRUTAL HEAT IN DJIBOUTI

After a night minimum of 37C,daytime temperature rose to 47C in the capital airport of Djibouti City,few steps from the Red Sea.
This is just 0.3C from its all time highest temperature.

Inland,near the Lac Assal, temperatures have reached almost 50C

A Letter From An Iranian My family is in Tehran. Here's what this war means to me.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Sen. Tim Kaine confronts Sec. Hegseth about the military's failure to inform families of U.S. service members whose names are being taken off of military bases to restore their former Confederate honorees. They learned it was happening via press reports.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

Ducklings in a watermelon pool. #AGoodPlace

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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

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