HEALTH

The National Institutes of Health reports that in a controlled trial of chronic back pain with no identifiable physical cause, 66% of participants who received Pain Reprocessing Therapy (a talk therapy technique) reported being pain-free or nearly pain-free after four weeks, compared with 20% who received placebo injections and 10% who received usual care.

Founded in 1987, Life Alert brought a wearable emergency button connected to live response into the home — a model distinctly different from the fixed pull-cord systems common at the time.

According to Health Affairs, nearly half of U.S. nursing homes used agency nursing staff by 2022, up from 23 percent in 2018, while agency workers accounted for 11 percent of direct-care nursing hours.

Human Longevity is offering clinical-grade whole-genome sequencing for $599 as it builds an AI-driven platform for personalised health and disease-risk prediction.