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A few years back, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez started noticing the extreme brightness of car headlights in rural Washington, where she lives—and felt bombarded. “You come around a curve and get these headlights smack in your face,” she says. “They make you lose reaction time. It’s a real safety risk.”

As a U.S. Representative, she’s working to change federal regulations to limit how bright headlights can be. Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez—who is also co-founder of an auto repair shop in addition to her political service—points out that even though vehicle safety has improved in the past decade, total road fatalities have gone up. Deadly accidents occur disproportionately at night, as headlight brightness has increased.

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It’s not just headlights. Our eyes are increasingly assailed by ultra-bright billboard ads, dazzling street lights, and glowing personal screens. The resulting glare could affect long-term vision. “High-intensity lights are potentially harmful bec..

Emergency room doctors see the worst-case scenarios, the weird fluke accidents, the mysterious ailments and miraculous recoveries. They’re also no strangers to the symptoms that patients didn’t take seriously until it was almost too late.

Here, ER docs share 10 red flags that patients often ignore—but which should be addressed urgently.

Sudden confusion or personality change

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One minute, your mom is lucid and chatty—the same as every other day. The next, she can’t remember where she is or who you are, her words are garbled, and she can’t summon the name of the vegetable she just started slicing. “You might think, well, maybe she’s just tired,” says Dr. Yanina Purim-Shem-Tov, executive vice chair of emergency medicine with the Rush University System for Health at Rush University Medical Center. “But this is absolutely an emergency, and we should see these people right away.”

Sudden confusion or a personality change could indicate a stroke, an infect..

It’s a stark number: 212,000. That’s how many women ages 20 and over have left the workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released Aug. 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (By contrast, 44,000 men have entered the workforce since January.) The numbers show a reversal of recent trends that saw more women, especially women with children, finding and keeping full-time jobs.

Data show that between January and June, labor force participation rate of women ages 25 to 44 living with a child under five fell nearly three percentage points, from 69.7% to 66.9%, says Misty Lee Heggeness, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Kansas. It’s a big reversal. The participation of those women had soared in 2022, 2023, and 2024, peaking in January 2025, as flexible work policies helped women join the workforce and generate much-needed income for their families.

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Workers have seen flexibility revoked in..

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has sent a blanket of smoke over the midwestern United States this weekend. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued air quality alerts for Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as, Iowa, Illinois Michigan, and parts of Nebraska and Missouri.

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Minneapolis and Chicago remained on IQAir’s list of top 10 major cities with the worst air quality on Saturday morning and Minnesota’s Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) extended an air quality alert for all of the state throughout the weekend.

Wildfires are becoming increasingly common in Canada and the United States. In 2023, more than 6,000 fires ravaged 37 million acres of land in Canada alone and the last two years have ranked among the worst wildfire seasons in the country’s history, according to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Parts of states like Texas, Oregon and California experiencing wildfires twice as often as they did in the 1970s, ac..

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When Shane Devon Tamura walked into a midtown Manhattan office building with an assault rifle, he also carried a note in his back pocket that provides the only hint at why he opened fire on people in the building. Tamura killed four and badly wounded another before shooting himself in the chest.

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In the note, Tamura claimed to have CTE—chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury condition due to repetitive trauma to the brain—and that he wanted researchers to study his brain. Tamura played high school football in California, a sport that’s been linked to a higher risk of CTE. A source close to the investigation allegedly told CNN that Tamura had written a three-page note and complained about the way the National Football League managed players with CTE. “You can’t go ..

When Shane Devon Tamura walked into a midtown Manhattan office building with an assault rifle, he also carried a note in his back pocket that provides the only hint at why he opened fire on people in the building. Tamura killed four and badly wounded another before shooting himself in the chest.

In the note, Tamura claimed to have CTE—chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury condition due to repetitive trauma to the brain—and that he wanted researchers to study his brain. Tamura played high school football in California, a sport that’s been linked to a higher risk of CTE. A source close to the investigation allegedly told CNN that Tamura had written a three-page note and complained about the way the National Football League managed players with CTE. “You can’t go against the NFL [National Football League], they’ll squash you,” CNN reported that he wrote. (The NFL’s headquarters are located in the building, but Tamura reportedly went to a different floor.) He asked that his bra..

If your doctor’s office called to schedule you for a treatment, how would you pick your appointment? Most likely, the scheduler would look at the available time slots, and you’d hear a list of available times—some early in the day, some later. Since you’ll get the same care regardless of when you go, you’d pick the one that best fits your schedule. No big deal, right?

Early reports from a recent study suggest that when it comes to a common cancer treatment, appointment timing may in fact be a very big deal.

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At a June meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), researchers from China presented preliminary findings of a study—not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal—where 210 patients receiving treatment for advanced lung cancer were randomized to receive two important treatments either before or after 3 p.m. One of those treatments was standard chemotherapy. The other was an immunotherapy treatment designed to boost the ability of..

The “worst-case scenario of famine” is unfolding in Gaza, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned in a July 29 alert, adding that “access to food and other essential items and services has plummeted to unprecedented levels.” Widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths, the IPC, a United Nations-affiliated organization, added, calling for “immediate action” to be taken to end “catastrophic human suffering.”

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“This is an incredibly important health catastrophe right now in Gaza, both in the short term and in the long term,” says Dr. Deborah Frank, a professor of pediatrics at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, assistant professor of community health science at the School of Public Health, director of the Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center, and founder of Children’s HealthWatch, which monitors the health of young children globally. “It is fixa..

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental-health crisis or contemplating suicide, call or text 988. In emergencies, call 911, or seek care from a local hospital or mental health provider. For international resources, click here.

“Can you tell me how to kill myself?” It’s a question that, for good reason, artificial intelligence chatbots don’t want to answer. But researchers suggest it’s also a prompt that reveals the limitations of AI’s existing guardrails, which can be easy to bypass.

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A new study from researchers at Northeastern University found that, when it comes to self-harm and suicide, large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity AI may still output potentially harmful content despite safety features. (TIME reached out to both companies for comment.)

The authors of the study, Annika Schoene and Cansu Canca of the Institute for Experiential AI, believe their paper is the first to explore “adversarial jailbr..

The Trump Administration announced a new initiative on Wednesday designed to allow Americans to share their medical records across a host of apps and programs managed by private tech companies—a move that proponentssays will facilitate easier access to those records across the country’s fragmented health care system, but that digital privacy experts fear will risk making patients’ data less secure.

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“For decades, America’s health care networks have been overdue for a high-tech upgrade and that’s what we are doing,” President Donald Trump said during an event announcing the initiative on Wednesday afternoon.

The Administration “secured commitments” from more than 60 tech and health care companies—including Amazon, Apple, Google, and OpenAI—“to begin laying the foundation for a next-generation digital health ecosystem that will improve patient outcomes, reduce provider burden, and drive value,” according to a press release from the U.S. Centers for Medi..