Health for the Holidays: 3 Strategies for Empowering Medication Adherence

The best “gift” for a person with chronic conditions is the emotional support and education needed to stay adherent to medications during the hectic holiday season. The post Health for the Holidays: 3 Strategies for Empowering Medication Adherence appeared first on MedCity News.

Luigi Mangione’s terror case: Was the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin ‘overcharged’?

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg surprised some observers this week when he announced a first-degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League computer whiz accused of assassinating a health insurance executive in an ambush attack outside a New York City hotel.  Under New York law, which differs in this regard from many other…

Mystery drones could be identified faster using new detection tool, but FAA lacks resources

As drone sightings over New Jersey continue to raise questions, a new tool could bring answers about the source of these flying vehicles — if the government could get it off the ground.  Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began requiring all unmanned aircraft systems to be equipped with Remote ID technology, which…

40 years before Daniel Penny case, Bernhard Goetz’s subway vigilante shooting shocked US ahead of Christmas

Bernhard Goetz, then a 37-year-old electronics technician, defended himself from a group of would-be robbers on a New York City subway car Dec. 22, 1984. Four decades later, another New York straphanger argued self-defense to beat homicide charges in another Big Apple subway vigilante case. In May 2023, Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran who…

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US agriculture primed to be next frontier in cybersecurity in new year, experts, lawmakers say

Cybersecurity has been a major subject of discussion in recent years, with purported Chinese spy balloons floating overhead, a major Appalachian oil pipeline hacked with ransomware and questions about mysterious drones over New Jersey skies.  But one overlooked area of focus in this regard is agriculture, several prominent figures have said — especially with America’s…