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The rapid rise of GLP-1 medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide has transformed obesity treatment. Still, experts say medications alone are not enough to address one of the nation's most pressing chronic diseases.
Despite changing tastes, the economics of keeping a nine-piece band together and two cancer battles, Big D and the Kids Table have been at it since 1995. Their high-energy sound and heart-on-sleeves songwriting have been embraced by internationally and they just released their 12th LP, “The Good Ole American Saturday Night.”
Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid solar to hit its goal of delivering universal electricity access by 2030 without driving up emissions. The ever-improving economics of solar technology have helped. A couple of years ago, a panel cost about…
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It's an unusual sight before a World Cup match: Supporters of opposing teams partying together, calling each other "brother," some even hoping for a draw. But fans say they're far from rivals.
The World Cup might be less than a week old, but the goal scoring at this year's tourney has been sublime. Argentina's Lionel Messi netted three goals the same day France's Kylian Mbappé scored two.
Kevin Warsh takes questions from reporters for the first time since taking over as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh and his colleagues are expected to hold interest rates steady today.
ROOIELS, South Africa — Baboons aren’t exactly punctual, but Gavin Lundie still expected them to appear in the village around 9 a.m. “They’re coming!” his wife Leslie called. Members of the Rooiels baboon troop had begun to make their way down. Leslie made her way to the sliding doors on their patio and secured it […]
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Scientists at Mayo Clinic have uncovered a surprising new way the kidneys conserve water, revealing a hidden backup system that works independently of the hormone long believed to control the process. The discovery emerged when researchers testing an old drug called probenecid expected it to worsen polycystic kidney disease (PKD) but found it actually slowed cyst growth instead.
Gameday traffic was expected to be a pain for the first local weekday World Cup match yesterday, but no major issues were reported. Some fans who went to Boston Stadium to see Iraq take on Norway Tuesday said the MBTA wait times were dramatically shorter than they were expecting, which was a pleasant surprise after a rough start over the weekend for people who journeyed to see Haiti-Scotland on Saturday. “Amazingly smooth,” one woman said of Tuesday’s travel. “We were expecting a lot of sort of chaos and mayhem and things to take a long time but it didn’t at all.” “The reputation of the train is not good. Our experience was better,” one Norway fan said. “It wasn’t bad,” one man said. “I think they learned from like the first week.” It wasn’t just the commuter rail that saw improvement, either. Many fans who drove to Foxborough said roads near the area were not crowded, in part due to M