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As you enjoy your cookouts and parades this weekend, please take a moment to remember those who didn't dodge service by faking bone spurs and whose sacrifice made our celebrations -- our very lives -- possible. - Teresa Hanafin






DAILY SPECIALS








HEALTH




Health tech is booming — and some of the biggest names in health and medicine are embracing the field. We've already covered key players at tech giants like Amazon, Verily, and Calico. Here's the latest from a new STAT Plus series that highlights the players leading Big Tech’s move into digital health and life sciences.

APPLE

In January, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, made a bold statement to CNBC: “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ — it will be about health.”
Realizing that ambition won’t be easy for the Silicon Valley tech giant. Nonetheless, as STAT’s Rebecca Robbins reports, the company is amassing a formidable roster of physicians and medical researchers in its quest to do so.

GOOGLE

There’s been a lot of buzz around Verily and Calico. But the core of the Alphabet conglomerate’s most ambitious health play is Google itself.
It's the home of a fitness tracking app; the search engine infamous for its use as a one-stop-shop for self-diagnosis; and the cloud division, which has been jockeying for hospital contracts as patient records move toward centralization. There’s also its artificial intelligence division — an area that Morgan Stanley analysts identified in a research note last month as Google’s key advantage compared to the other Big Tech players betting on health care.
As Google continues to push into health, here are the five most influential people leading the charge.

MICROSOFT

When it comes to health, Microsoft has a finger in every pie, with patents for innovations in everything from medical imaging to cloud storage, telehealth, and remote patient monitoring. While the company declined to say exactly how many of its 141,000 employees worldwide are focused on health care, STAT technology correspondent Casey Ross’ latest storyprofiles the biggest players Microsoft has amassed over the past year, as it has built out a nucleus of physician executives geared toward expanding the company’s footprint in medicine. [STAT Plus, May 16, 2019]

What We Should Be Eating In The 21st Century
Morning Edition producer Khari Thompson moderates a discussion with Harvard School of Public Health nutrition scientist Walter Willett, a world-leading pioneer on how to eat. He is now focusing on what some call “The Grandparents' Diet” — how to eat not only for our own health but for the longterm health of the planet. This discussion is a part of Boston Brilliance, a WBUR CommonHealth series that introduces audiences to the brightest minds of Boston’s biomedical ecosystem.



WOMEN’S HEALTH




      4 key takeaways from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testimony about Iran OPINION  

 The Latest: Coats says spy agencies to cooperate with Barr




DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
USDA

USDA to shift some inspector tasks to pork plant workers - in everything but name

 U.S. seeks to avoid planting distortions with new farm aid

 ‘Struggling to tread water’: Dairy farmers are caught in an economic system with no winning formula



FROM THE PORCH

FORMER CIA CHIEF: WE MUST KEEP JULIAN ASSANGE FROM BECOMING A MARTYR OPINION

Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics, Alarming Health Officials
By ANDREW JACOBS and MICHAEL ADNO
In its decision to approve two drugs for orange and grapefruit trees, the E.P.A. largely ignored objections from the C.D.C. and the F.D.A., which fear that expanding their use in cash crops could fuel antibiotic resistance in humans.


This Memorial Day, we hope you will take a moment with us to reflect on the reason the holiday was created: to honor those who gave their lives in service to our country and, ultimately, to all of us. There are many national parks where you can learn about military history and remember those who fought and died for our country.
Known or unknown, each soldier’s life or death was meaningful to someone. Many historians cite May 1, 1865, as the first Memorial Day, when 10,000 individuals, mostly freed men and women, held a ceremony to honor the dead Union soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina. More formal commemorations grew from these early gatherings in both the North and the South.
By the 1890s, Memorial Day was a noteworthy holiday across much of the country, and the tradition has continued through the passing decades. Commemorations today range from simple ceremonies to elaborate displays, like the annual Fredericksburg National Cemetery Illumination, where 15,000 candles are lighted — one candle in honor of every soldier buried within its walls.
We hope you are able to visit a national park and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country!
Sincerely,
 
 
Katherine Chesson
Vice President, Programs and Partnerships










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National WWI Memorial View
We’re getting close to putting a shovel in the ground for the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
We started at $50 Million and we only have $13 Million to raise in order to get started this fall. That is tremendous progress, so I know that together we can do it.
Thanks for your friendship, interest and support with gifts, guidance, and commitment as we seek to remember those who, as our Chairman is fond of saying, "left their homes to fight in a war they didn’t start, in a land most had never visited, in the name of peace and liberty for people they didn’t know".
Our Doughboys did it then.
You can help get this done now.
If you have given before, please consider another gift, large or small, in Memory of the Doughboys, on this special weekend when we remember those who sacrificed. Every dime goes to our Doughboys' Memorial.
And if you have not donated to the National WWI Memorial in Washington - now is a really important time for you to join in the effort.
Whether you can give a gift right now or not, thank you for being part of the community that is remembering the significance and the sacrifice of our men, women and nation in WWI.

Best,

Dans Signature
Daniel S. DaytonExecutive DirectorU.S. World War One Centennial Commission



SPEAKING OUT

$44 million

The amount of the settlement reached to resolve civil lawsuits against Harvey Weinstein over his alleged sexual misconduct
As a parent myself I respect that autonomy, but there are places where that could threaten one's child or one's community.

— Dr. Maryanne Bombaugh, on religious vaccine exemptions for school kids 




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Wallenberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Saved the Jews of Budapest
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Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet 1944–1945
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Crown Of Fire FICTION
The Immigrant: A Novel FICTION



UNITED KINGDOM

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