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Chancellor I'Ashea Myles transferred Christa Pike's legal challenge to Tennessee's revised lethal injection protocol to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The Boring Company and Tony Giarratana announced that residents of three downtown high-rise residences will have direct access to the Music City Loop, and Nurses Middle College Nashville and TCAT partnered to offer high school freshmen a practical nursing program. The post May 7: Christa Pike Court Change; The Boring Company, Giarratana Strike a Deal appeared first on Nashville Banner.

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A África do Sul reagiu nesta quarta-feira às acusações de xenofobia após protestos contra os migrantes, Pretoria considerando que os países africanos devem actuar contra a instabilidade política e a má governação que levam as suas respectivas populações a emigrar. Declarações que surgem após semanas de incidentes e numa altura em que centenas de pessoas desfilaram ontem em Durban, no litoral, para exigir medidas contra os migrantes em situação irregular.

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Today, truckloads of decades-old waste are being unearthed from about 770 acres in a remote area between the Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake City International Airport as part of a yearslong cleanup project that’s expected to cost the Utah Inland Port Authority upwards of $200 million, maybe more.  The area was once an old […]

This article first appeared on KFF Health News.  The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious public health approaches that some experts say are laudable but will be hampered by the administration’s own actions. The sweeping 195-page National Drug Control Strategy, published May […]

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La valeur boursière de Samsung Electronics a franchi la barre des 1 000 milliards de dollars, une première pour le géant sud-coréen. Le plus grand fabricant de semi-conducteurs au monde profite d'un boom sans précédent, poussé par la demande en puces mémoires utilisées pour les services d'intelligence artificielle. Face à l'excellente santé financière de Samsung, les salariés de la multinationale de l'électronique réclament d'être mieux payés et menacent de faire grève.

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The Metro Council will hold its first meeting of May on Thursday, with 24 members sponsoring legislation to ease zoning regulations for childcare businesses, a bill to add exemptions for benches in the public right-of-way, and a vote to confirm inaugural board members of the Midtown Central Business Improvement District. The post Your Guide to Nashville’s Metro Council Meeting: May 7, 2026 appeared first on Nashville Banner.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s Global Checkup in your inbox a day early.Hello from Nairobi.The weekend brought in a bit of natural chaos: rains torrential enough to bring down trees near my home, and marauding Sykes’ monkeys in numbers sufficient to convince me I may never eat the soursops growing in my back yard. (I have long since given up on the mangoes.)This week we’ve got a proper hodgepodge. A story on why it’s still so hard to get better drugs to people with neglected diseases, even after real medical advances. A damning investigation into an AI-driven health insurance system. Updates on both the widening health toll of conflicts in the Middle East, and the stall in a global pandemic treaty, and, finally, a rare virus trapped on a quarantined cruise ship. My name is William Herkewitz, and I’m a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the Global Health Checkup, where I highlight some of the week’s most important stories on outbreaks, medicine, science, and survival from around the world.With that, as we say in Swahili: karibu katika habari — welcome to the news.The neglected disease trap for better drugsWe’ll start with a story out in Nature that cleanly captures the maddening challenge to treat and cure some of the world’s most neglected diseases. Enter our hero: moxidectin. It’s a drug that’s both safe and proven since 2018 as a dramatic improvement for preventing and treating two widespread parasitic diseases (river blindness and elephantiasis).The problem for moxidectin? The uptake has been an uphill battle.Disease breakdown: River blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, is a parasitic disease that’s spread by biting blackflies, which breed in rapidly flowing rivers. The nightmarish parasites grow in the skin and eyes, which cause intense itching, scarring, and lesions that can lead to permanent blindness. There are an estimated 20 million cases of this disease, almost entirely on the African continent, and 250 million people require preventive treatment.Disease breakdown: Elephantiasis is another terrifying parasitic disease, this one spread by mosquitoes. It can cause extreme swelling in limbs or other tissues (commonly in the breasts and genitals) and skin thickening. Hence the name, which is Greek-derived for “elephant-like disease.” There are an estimated 51 million cases of this disease across the equatorial world, and over 650 million people require preventive treatment.To be clear, moxidectin’s efficacy is not in question. For river blindness, clinical trials have shown that it lasts longer in the body and appears to clear parasites “86%” more effectively than the current treatment, an anti-parasite drug called ivermectin. The same is true for elephantiasis. In one small trial referenced in the article, the drug cleared parasites in about 95% of patients, compared with 32% for existing treatments.The drug itself also has a unique backstory. It was invented in the ‘80s for livestock use, but it wasn’t until last decade that it jumped the expensive hoops for human clinical trials. Those decades of lag is largely because there’s not a lot of commercial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in something like moxidectin. (Even if the World Health Organization says nearly 900 million total people can use it!) After all, its target market is mostly the very poorest people in the world. And for both diseases, other treatments already exist, even if moxidectin appears to work better. Instead, it took the altruistic efforts of an organization called Medicines Development for Global Health, a non-profit pharmaceutical company that focuses on neglected diseases, to run the trial gauntlet. And they made history doing so. As the article outlines, this “development, regulatory approval, and [rollout] without involvement of a commercial pharmaceutical partner…” was “a first-of-its-kind achievement for a non-profit company.”Where are we now? While moxidectin was finally approved for river blindness in 2018, its first real-world rollout is only now underway in Ghana, “where around 120,000 people received the new treatment last year.”Part of the delay is pure regulatory bureaucracy. Countries and the WHO still have to review the data and issue guidance. Part of it is also logistical. After all, someone has to manufacture, buy, and distribute the stuff. But the cruelest delay is, again, financial: Ivermectin, the older and weaker drug, is donated for free by the pharma company Merck. Moxidectin’s nonprofit maker can offer it at a reduced cost, but not for free. So, as you might imagine, competing with a free pill… makes for a hard sell, especially in an era of tightening budgets. What’s my takeaway? I said this at the top, but this is a maddening story. The layers of systems built around neglected diseases, even in the face of medical advancements, still seem almost designed to make success as hard as possible. Still, if there is a silver lining, it’s that there are organizations like Medicines Development for Global Health nevertheless trying to exploit the various cracks in that broken system to get better drugs, slowly, into people’s hands.Stalled pandemic negotiations, part 2A month ago, we covered the stalled global pandemic treaty, and noted the sticking point to progress: “one final, unresolved section known as Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing. Basically an agreement on how countries will share bacteria/virus samples of the next pandemic, and how medicines and tests developed from those samples will be distributed.”The issue basically being that: Poorer countries are being asked to quickly share samples, but they want guarantees that they won’t be last in line for the vaccines, tests, and treatments made from them… like, uh, they were last time.Well, Reuters is reporting that WHO member states have now even further extended talks on this same unresolved section, “casting doubt on ​when a pandemic treaty adopted last year can ‌come into effect.”To be clear, until these final negotiations finish, there is no active treaty (even though the unfinished treaty was technically signed in 2025).It’s a terrible limbo of inaction. If another pandemic were to emerge tomorrow, we’d still be at the same place we were in early 2020: no settled rulebook on how we work together as a global community, and (assuredly) plenty of consternation to go around. What’s to be done? I came across a useful essay by three global health law experts, published almost exactly one year ago. And their argument, today, is all the more salient: This final, unresolved section is buckling because it’s trying to solve two extremely hard problems at once. “Pathogen and data sharing [and] pharmaceutical supply and distribution… both are vital activities that would be more effectively addressed separately,” they write. But, (and here’s my favorite quote from the essay) “exactly why member states think they can resolve the most contentious issues of the preceding three years simply because it is in a separate annex… is rather baffling.”Ultimately, their sharper point is that these negotiations are being asked to do too much political work. Because the fight isn’t really about technical details anymore, it’s about trust. The world needs countries to share dangerous pathogens quickly. And poorer countries need some assurance that they won’t once again help create lifesaving tools they can’t access. But both of these issues may be easier to solve if they are not forced into the same all-or-nothing negotiation. The takeaway? Break up the negotiations! Counting global conflict’s health tollThere are two data-heavy stories worth your time this week on the widening fallout from conflicts in the Middle East. First up, Reuters reports that attacks on health care workers and health facilities are rising globally, with the recent Middle East conflicts driving a clear jump. By the numbers: Before the outbreak of fighting in Iran and Lebanon, the WHO said “attacks globally on such facilities and staff averaged about 3.7 per day.” But that has now risen to an average of 4.3 attacks per day. “This is clearly showing that health care is the target,” Altaf Musani, the WHO’s director of emergency health, told ReutersAnd that’s not even the bleakest figure in the story!Here are several more: Since March, Lebanon alone has seen 149 attacks on health care, according to the WHO. Gaza is down to just one fully functioning hospital. In Sudan, only half of hospitals are fully operational. As Musani put it, where “health care is needed most, it is being attacked.”Meanwhile, The Guardian has a figure-filled story on how the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted the global supply chain for humanitarian aid. To be clear, only part of the issue is food and medicine that’s directly stuck in the strait. For example, how the International Rescue Committee told The Guardian that $130,000 worth of supplies for 20,000 people in Sudan is still stranded in Dubai. Rather, the big killer is fuel shortages and rising prices, which are in full swing. Like in Nigeria and Ethiopia, where “government oil rations meant the emergency relief body [the International Rescue Committee] was having to limit generator use in its health clinics.” Save the Children also estimates that every $5 increase in the price of a barrel of oil is costing the charity an additional “$340,000 a month” in shipping, fuel, food, and medical supplies. And if oil stays around $100 a barrel through 2026, that could mean an extra $27 million in costs this year. In response, humanitarian leaders are calling for a humanitarian corridor through the Strait of Hormuz to freely move food and medical supplies, alongside fuel to address these humanitarian crises. (Which is, let’s be real, an extremely unlikely resolution.)This is clearly an ongoing story, and one we’ll keep watching.HealthInsuranceGPTSorry, but it’s dealer’s choice for this next one. (When a global health story lands in Nairobi, I’m going to cover it!) The Guardian just published a damning investigation on Kenya’s new national health insurance program. In short: That program is based on an “AI system used to predict how much Kenyans can afford to pay for access to health care,” but which has “systemically driven up costs for the poor.”(If you’re tempted to skip this because you’re not especially invested in one country’s health insurance system, fair enough. But you can read this as a broader, cautionary tale about handing off messy human decisions to opaque artificial intelligence systems.)According to the report, the 2-year-old AI system has been, from the start, “systematically overcharging the poorest Kenyans … while undercharging the wealthiest by underestimating their incomes.”The core issue is that the “system is structured on a decades-old World Bank bugbear: proxy means testing,” which is “a way of estimating the incomes of the poor based on their possessions and other life circumstances, such as how many children they have or whether they live alone.”In practice, “this has meant deploying government volunteers … across the country to register their roofing materials, livestock, and children – and feeding those details into an opaque algorithm to decide how much they earn and how much they must pay.” The end result, according to the reporting, is a widespread mess of misclassification: with “critically ill people who cannot get treatment,” and families “facing a sum of between 10% and 20% of meager incomes.”“People are dying, people are suffering,” said one of the officials registering families under the system in Nairobi. Ultimately, The Guardian reports that there is “not a single reason” for these inaccuracies. “Poverty is a fluid category – and using factors such as an iron roof or a pit toilet to estimate a family’s wealth is an intrinsically imprecise undertaking.” There is one last point worth noting: As development economist Stephen Kidd told The Guardian, failures like this don’t just get numbers wrong and cost lives, they also reduce public faith in government services. “It feels like a lottery,” he said. “The lottery is not a great way of building trust.”The Hantavirus cruiseI’ll leave you with a story I initially dismissed as too small, but which I’ve come across enough times in enough outlets that I just have to flag.The BBC reports that a Dutch-operated cruise ship (the MV Hondius) was moored off Cape Verde after a suspected hantavirus outbreak killed three people and left another passenger seriously ill. The ship was sailing from Argentina to the Canary Islands. In port, two more cases were confirmed. On Wednesday, the ship departed Cape Verde was heading to Spain’s Canary Islands with nearly 150 people on board, the Associated Press reported.Disease breakdown: Hantavirus is a family of rare viruses usually carried by rodents. People typically get infected by breathing in particles from infected rodent urine, droppings, or saliva. It can cause severe respiratory illness, with symptoms appearing one to eight weeks after exposure. (A lag that can allow cases to silently accumulate.) Human-to-human spread is rare, but has been documented with the Andes virus in South America. There is no specific treatment or vaccine, so care is mostly supportive. One source at the WHO told the BBC that in this case, some person-to-person spread may have happened among close contacts sharing cabins, but the first infection could also have come from rodents before the ship left Argentina, or during one of its stops.Still, there’s more questions than answers as of yet.(Only modestly related here, but this news reminds me of a story I wrote about 12 years ago for Popular Mechanics. I was helping at my father’s automotive shop and we found rats living in a Porsche’s cabin air filter. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ecologist told me that was “an ideal way to spread an airborne virus,” since the car’s vents were blowing particles from rodent droppings or urine straight into an unlucky customer’s face.)Anyhow… a rare virus, a stranded cruise ship, several deaths, and no clear answer yet on where the outbreak began? Fine. It gets the closing slot!I’ll see you next week,WilliamWilliam Herkewitz is a reporter covering global public health for Healthbeat. He is based in Nairobi. Contact William at wherkewitz@healthbeat.org.

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The city launched an ambitious plan to keep residents from getting displaced as speculators swooped in, but some projects never happened, while others show modest results. The post Chicago’s Efforts to Keep Housing Affordable in Woodlawn Falls Short as Obama Center Nears Opening appeared first on Illinois Answers Project.