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Aspirin is one of the most widely taken medicines in the world, having been recommended for decades as a way of protecting against heart attacks and strokes in at-risk patients. However, a new study has revealed that clopidogrel, another commonly used blood thinner, or anticoagulant, is more effective in preventing serious heart attacks and strokes and carries no additional risk.The finding is the result of research conducted by an international team of scientists from the US, UK, Switzerland, Australia, and Japan. Their work is a meta-analysis—a study that collects and analyzes the results of multiple smaller studies, with the aim…

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Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe Correspondent in Kyiv andPaulin KolaBBC News in LondonWatch: ‘My job is to make sure Ukraine stays in the fight’, says John HealeyThe UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says.Ahead of a top-level meeting in Paris on Thursday, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that Ukraine’s allies would “help make the skies safe, to make the seas safe, and to secure the land”, once a peace deal had been struck. About 30 leaders…

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My highly customized Linux Mint 22.2 Zara desktop runs like a charm. sjvnFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysLinux Mint Zara is an excellent desktop for both Linux and Windows users looking for a change.Linux Mint 22.2 comes with numerous modest improvements.You can run the new Mint without worrying about needing to make major updates.Clement “Clem” Lefebvre and the rest of the Linux Mint team have done it again. With the release of Linux Mint 22.2, also known as Zara, users get a distribution that’s easy to use and packed with helpful improvements to make the daily…

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Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, is now in operation in every acute hospital in England, health service bosses disclosed on Thursday.The system has helped hundreds of people receive potentially life-saving improvements to their treatment since its rollout began last year. It has led directly to patients being moved to intensive care or receiving drugs they needed, such as antibiotics, or benefiting from other vital interventions.It is named after Martha Mills, who died in 2021 at the age of 13 from sepsis after a bicycle accident. A coroner found she would probably have survived…

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Michelle Dockery had big news to share at Wednesday’s premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in London: She and her husband of two years, Jasper Waller-Bridge, are expecting their first child. Dockery and Waller-Bridge married in 2023. He is a film and TV producer, music manager, and the brother of Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Michelle Dockery attends the premiere of ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ in London on Sept. 3. Jeff Spicer/Getty Dockery, 43, attended the formal event to promote her role as Lady Mary in what’s billed as the final installment of the Crawley family…

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Baxter HolmesSep 3, 2025, 12:17 PM ETCloseBaxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times.The LA Clippers and team owner Steve Ballmer reportedly have been accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary cap by paying $28 million to Kawhi Leonard for a “no-show job.”Pablo Torre, a podcaster and former ESPN contributor, reported Wednesday that the Clippers paid Leonard through a now-bankrupt company owned by Ballmer.NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement later Wednesday that the…

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Grand Teton isn’t as prone to crowding.There’s been a lot of discussion about National Parks since the spring of 2025, when headline after headlined rolled out about the Trump Administration’s plan to cut staffing at the National Park Service (NPS). While the cuts seesawed back and forth after a succession of legal battles, by the end of August, the New York Times had reported that more than 90 parks—more than one-fifth of the 433 overseen by the NPS—have experienced strain from understaffing, leaving fees uncollected, garbage piled up, and educational programming for school students slashed. But that leaves a significant number of…

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Diving into AI psychosis to figure out how we can get a handle on this increasingly disturbing and endangering concerns at play.getty In today’s column, I examine the rising tide of AI psychosis and identify a useful means of differentiating how this malady arises. A four-square matrix is utilized to clarify the human-AI interactions involved. This serves as a handy means of understanding and analyzing where AI psychosis is heading and what can be done about the disconcerting and disturbingly weighty matter at hand. Let’s talk about it. This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes column…

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In a later press conference, Putin confirmed the discussion and said that “life expectancy will increase significantly” in the near future and “we should also think about this” in terms of political and economic consequences. (In Russia, life expectancy has actually decreased significantly in recent years, and the overall population is declining.) The brief snippets of conversation suggest that immortality is on the minds of the world’s strongmen, though it’s interesting to see how it takes a different form than in Silicon Valley, where robots and software are more often seen as the key to longevity instead of, say, recurring…

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