Innholdsfortegnelse for March 15, 2024 i Newsweek

In Focus THE NEWS IN PICTURES BEIT LAHIA, GAZA STRIP Palestinians facing a severe food crisis in northern Gaza wait for aid on February 26. U.N. officials warn at least 576,000 are near famine, with the World Food Program’s deputy director citing unprecedented levels of child malnutrition. Humanitarian aid to the enclave has dropped over 80 percent since Israeli military operations began following the October 7 attack by Hamas. On February 29 in Gaza City, a throng encircled aid trucks headed to northern Gaza that were being secured by the Israeli military. Amid the chaos, Israeli forces fired at the crowd. More than 100 Palestinians were killed and over 700 injured, according to witnesses and Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli military said its forces fired at the crowd after its…

HERE AREN’T MANY DECISIONS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHOOSING THE RIGHT HOSPITAL to provide care for yourself or a loved one. To help, Newsweek has partnered with Statista for its annual ranking of the world’s best hospitals, a series that began in March 2019. This year, the list includes data on 2,400 hospitals across 30 countries. For the first time, Chile and Malaysia have been added to the ranking, which also includes the U.S., most of Western Europe and Scandinavia, 10 Asian countries, Australia and countries elsewhere in the Americas. The data is organized by nation but also lists the top 250 hospitals worldwide, the top 10 of which we’ve highlighted—particularly their intriguing use of artificial intelligence to advance medical discoveries. Each hospital’s score is based on an online survey of…

Periscope NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY FOR ELLIMAE KALINOSKI AND HER FAMILY, THE internet is a lifeline. She and her husband, who cannot work because of long COVID, get discounted web access through the Affordable Connectivity Program, which they also use to homeschool their autistic son. Now funding for the ACP is set to run out, the parents are worried they soon won’t be able to afford broadband access. “It’s incredibly needed,” Kalinoski told Newsweek. “[The ACP] allowed us to continue to homeschool our autistic son—who absolutely needs to be homeschooled—and we are able to keep in touch with family and friends ... because we can use FaceTime without spending extra money on our phone plan.” She worries “not just for us, but for many, many people like us that…

WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORDS “woolly mammoth,” what picture does it paint in your mind? It’s an iconic, extinct mega-fauna from the ice age so well-recognized and beloved by all of us, especially children; they see it in movies and documentaries, and in their schoolbooks. Yet the woolly mammoth feels like a mythical creature. Sometimes, people put them in the same category as dinosaurs, even though they were separated by 65 million years. What is hard to fathom is mammoths were walking the Earth while humanity was building the pyramids. When you tell people that, it sounds crazy—even the pyramids have a mythical quality to them. We were profoundly inspired by Colossal Biosciences’ co-founder, the geneticist George Church, and his pioneering vision: To resurrect the woolly mammoth from extinction using…

SIX MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH in an Arctic penal colony, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote of his hopes for his country, his love for his family and for literature, and the maxim that shaped his thinking. “I believe that Russia will be happy and free,” he said. “And I do not believe in death.” The long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin shared his thoughts in response to a 13-item questionnaire sent to political prisoners across Russia by Boris Akunin, one of the country’s most popular and long-exiled writers. He published the compiled responses in an e-book on his website in October. In January, Russia declared Akunin a “foreign agent” and he was added to a register of “terrorists and extremists” by its justice ministry over his objections to…

LEADERS AT SOME OF THE WORLD’S best hospitals find themselves in a unique moment. Just a few years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed global health care systems to a breaking point, many of these top hospital executives are now on the leading edge of what promises to be one of the biggest leaps in modern medicine. Artificial intelligence is quickly showing the potential to revolutionize many aspects of care giving, from cancer diagnoses to clerical work. But it also presents new risks, uncertainties and vexing ethical questions. With the release of Newsweek’s ranking of the “World’s Best Hospitals,” executives at leading hospitals around the world told us how they are using the power of AI. “Health care needs to embrace artificial intelligence,” said Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Gianrico…