President Barack Obama has promised a “moonshot” to cure cancer, but the biggest obstacle to that goal could be his major healthcare achievement – The Patient Care and Affordable Care Act. Obama said in his final State of the Union speech that vice presidentJoe Biden will push researchers to cure cancer within five years. It’s a worthy ambition. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1.69 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and 596,000 U.S. people will die of it. Only heart disease kills more Americans. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Barack Obama…
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Thierry Dosogne | Getty Images Doctors performing a surgery Surgeons in Cleveland have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States, an Ohio medical center said on Thursday. The 26-year-old patient, who was not identified in order to protect her privacy, was in stable condition after nine hours of surgery on Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic, the hospital said. The transplanted organ came from a deceased donor, it added. ‹ Pancreatic cancer ‘breakthrough’ hailed Scientists hail spectacular results from cancer ‘revolution’ › Last year, the Cleveland Clinic began screening candidates for uterus transplants, which replace a non-functioning uterus, potentially…
The U.S. consumer is relatively financially healthy, despite turmoil in stock markets — at least if you measure in gas station snacks, according to one PepsiCo executive. “The U.S. consumer is doing just fine,” Hugh Johnston, Pepsi’s vice chairman and chief financial officer, told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Thursday. Thanks in part to lower gas prices and improved employment, Pepsi saw convenience store sales, a bellwether of consumer spending, pop 6 percent in its latest quarter, Johnston said. ‹ From Pepsi to Target: Bet on these leaders Is this the future of entertainment? Pepsi says so Indra Nooyi: The…
With all the talk about the 4-inch iPhone 5se lately, you may have forgotten about the fact that Apple will launch a more important phone this year – yes, the iPhone 7. Yet a new rumor is now here to talk about it too. The iPhone 7 will reportedly feature a very similar design to its predecessor, but there will be some notable differences. First off, its rear camera will be flush with the back, so the camera hump from the iPhone 6s will be gone. Second, the iPhone 7 will get rid of those pesky antenna bands that run…
A high performance version of the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT has been spotted testing in in Europe. Our sources suggest that this car is a road going version of their GT3 race car. It is likely to be called either the AMG GT-R or may even become a new Black series car. The car, while camouflaged, does show its sporty origins. The front bumper gets new air intakes while the grille is expected to get some upgrades possibly for additional cooling. The side profile remains the same as earlier while the rear gets new air intakes, central mounted exhaust and a…
A new desktop PC case aims to combine the style of a Mac Pro with the flexibility of a custom Windows rig. Dune Case is a $200 PC enclosure with a cylindrical design. It supports Mini-ITXmotherboards, along with a standard ATX processor, Mini-ITX graphics card, and SFX power supply. The case, which comes in metallic black or gold, weighs 5.7 pounds, and measures 10 inches tall by 8.5 inches in diameter. Aside from just looking more impressive than a boxy desktop, the Dune Case’s design supposedly improves circulation. Cool air comes in from the bottom, where the power supply mount…
The newly launched Vitara Brezza is quite a crucial product for Maruti Suzuki. We say crucial because it has been designed and developed in India using one of Suzuki’s global platforms and unlike Maruti’s previous launches (Read: S-Cross and Baleno) which are limited to the brand’s Nexa premium dealerships, the Brezza is available across Maruti’s entire dealer network. The Vitara Brezza boasts of a bold new look, thanks to a high-riding stance, chunky chrome grille and ‘bull horn’ shaped LED lights along with the projector headlamps. The overall length and width are rated at 3995mm and 1790mm respectively while the…
Either a genuine mistake, or part of the pre-launch teasing process (our money is on the latter), a Samsung website now lists the Galaxy S7 Edge in a table detailing the different uses of the curved screen. Keeping the Galaxy S6 edge and S6 edge+ company, the yet-to-be-released model (announcement confirmed for February 21) will be able to do the exact same stuff as its older brethren. With the screen on, the trio can display either the narrow type strips available since the S6 edge’s inception, or the wide one-third of the screen type introduced with the Marshmallow update. With…
Amazon.com said Wednesday it may buy back up to $5 billion in stock over the coming years. Shares rose more than 2 percent in after-hours trading on the news. The company said the program does not have a set expiration time. Amazon said this buyback would replace a $2 billion authorization from 2010. As of Dec. 31 it had used just $1.24 billion of that prior program. The new buyback comes amid weakness in the stock, with shares down 28 percent from their recent high on Dec. 29. Please check back for further Amazon updates. [“source -cncb”]
If you haven’t been paying much attention to virtual reality, now might be a good time to start. In a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, some of the biggest names in smartphones, consumer electronics and social media have given the technology a major boost. It’s too early to tell whether the new cameras, smartphones, goggles and social media tools are enough to take the technology from video toy to big business, but together they make up the most serious attempt yet to do so. At one end are new 360-degree cameras from Samsung Electronics…