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Federal research financing to face areas such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease is about $ 1 billion behind the levels of recent years, reflecting the chaotic start of the Trump administration and dictates who have frozen a series of subsidies, meetings and communications.The slowdown of the National Institutes of Health prizes occurred while a legal challenge takes place on the sudden change of policy of the administration last week to reduce payments for administrative costs and structures relating to medical research. A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the cuts, waiting for hearings at the end of this month.The research financed at the federal level has guided important progress in cutting-edge gene therapies and in the strengthening of the immuno-system system for...

The de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, the hereditary prince Mohammed Bin Salman, met on Monday with three senior members of the Trump administration, including the secretary of state Marco Rubio, who were visiting the kingdom to discuss the future of Gaza e Ukraine.The visit of Mr. Rubio, a National Security Councilor Mike Waltz and Steve Witkoff, correspondent for the Middle East of Trump, arrived in the midst of criticism on the fact that the Trump administration was acting without consulting foreign partners relevant on wars in both countries.Mr. Rubio also met at the beginning of the day with Faisal Bin Farhan, Saudi Foreign Minister.Little was released on the content of the meetings, with the exception of a video of a short exchange among the men in which the prince said he was happy t...

Israel said that it would remain in a handful of positions in the southern Lebanon while the deadline is transformed for the Israeli and Hezbollah military forces to retire from the area Tuesday, raising fears that a supported Israeli presence could undermine the fragile truce.After a ceased the fire in November ended the most fatal war between the two parts in decades, both the Israeli army and Hezbollah, the powerful group supported by Iran, should have given control of the southern Lebanon to Lebanese military by the end of January.The deadline in the end was extended to February 18, following the mortal violence on the border.On Monday, Israel announced that his forces would have temporarily remained in five "strategic" points just beyond the border in the Lebanese territory until the ...

On Friday, the board of directors of Openi rejected an offer of $ 97.4 billion by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors to obtain control of the artificial intelligence company, deepening a feud between Musk and the CEO of Openi , Sam Altman.In a statement, Bret Taylor, president of the Board of Directors of Openi, said: "Openai is not on sale and the Council has unanimously rejected the last attempt by Mr. Musk to stop competition". Mr. Taylor referred to the company Ai del Mr. Musk, Xai.Openi sent a letter on Friday to Marc Toberoff, the lawyer who represents Mr. Musk and the investors who made the offer, stating that the offer was not "in the best interest of OAI's mission", which is to build An artificial intelligence for the benefit of "all humanity."Musk and other investors made th...

When President Trump announced his intention to impose rates to Mexico and Canada, one of his declared rational ones was to force those countries to curb Fenanil's flow in the United States. In the tax year 2024, the protection of customs and borders of the United States seized almost 22,000 pounds of pills, dust and other products containing Fenetanil, falling compared to 27,000 pounds in the previous tax year. More than 105,000 people died from overdose, three quarters of them from Fenetanil and other opioids, in 2023 cause fatal overdose.In my article for the magazine, I notice that one of the many tragedies of the opiate epidemic is that a treatment proven for opiate addiction, a drug called buprenorfina, is available in the United States for more than two decades, but has been drastic...

On Sunday the secretary of state Marco Rubio met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem, where they discussed the insistent proposals of President Trump for the United States to take over the devastated strip and force his Palestinian residents, among other issues.The journey is Rubio's first in the region as a secretary of state, and comes while uncertainty is increasing that Israel and Hamas can or are willing to transform a tenuous ceased to fire to Gaza into a permanent end of their war.But the controversial vision of Mr. Trump for transforming Gaza into a "Middle East Riviera" owned by American owned by those high -level negotiations, and Mr. Rubio will surely be pressed for greater clarity on the proposal during his visits to the Next visits days in Saudi Arabia and...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shocked the public at the Annual Conference on Monaco's security in 2007 asking for the rollback of the overbearing American influence and a new balance of power in Europe most suitable for Moscow.He didn't get what he wanted - then.Almost two decades later, during the same conference, the best officials of President Trump's cabinet clarified one thing: Putin found an American administration that could help him realize his dream.The comments of the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the vice president JD Vance raised fears among the participants who under the new administration the United States could align with Russia and take Europe or abandon it completely.Such a change, analysts say, would give Mr. Putin a previously unthinkable victory much more i...

Intel, an icon fall of the Silicon Valley who tries to restore his reputation as a more important company of semi -hounding semiconduers, is working with the Trump administration on a plane to turn the function of his plants as chips in a gigantic Taiwanese rival .In recent months, Frank Yeary, the interim executive president of Intel, has spoken with administrative officials and leaders of the manufacturing company to Taiwan semiconductors on an agreement that would have separated the manufacturing activities of Intel from the design and in the sector of semiconductor products , according to four people with the knowledge of the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity.TSMC, which produces about 90 percent of the most advanced semiconductors in the world, would take control of the Intel ...

So, in November, with the election of Donald Trump and the return of the Republicans to power to the congress, the question of how to respond to the best of opioid use disorder has been confronted with a new uncertainty. In the last decade, the push to expand access to the treatment for opiate addiction has enjoyed bipartisan support. But during his campaign, Trump outlined a draconian vision to face the problem of opiates, threatening drug dealers and smugglers with the death penalty and promising to "seal" the border. On February 1st, he signed an executive order to collect the rates against China, Mexico and Canada, in part to put pressure on these countries to stop the flow of Fenestanil in the United States. (Shortly thereafter, he gave 30 -day repories in Canada and Mexico.)Keith Hum...