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Seniors: Carol Watson, 72

Owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping in LaFayette enjoys her growing business — still puts in six-, seven-day weeks By Mary Beth Roach Carol Watson, the owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping, has been in gardens since she could walk. Literally. She said she learned to walk in her grandfather’s garden, which was next door to her current home and business in LaFayette. Today, at 72, she is running the business that her mother, Claire, opened in 1981 as Watson Greenhouse. Watson worked part-time for her mom until 1990, when she joined her full time. While she may not have had any formal horticultural experience, she said she learned so much about growing and raising plants from her mom, who had an abundance of energy and talent. Now, after 35 years in the business full time, Watson has no plans to retire, although she joked that she’d like a couple of days off a week. On her seven-acre site, complete with four greenhouses, Watson said her favorite parts of the job are working with and educating her customers; helping some of her young customers build terrariums; conducting occasional class field trips; and supporting local art by decorating the shop with an eclectic mix of pottery from at least four area craftspeople. A one-time employee of the former Dey Bros. department store in Syracuse, Watson said she loves merchandising and enjoys displaying unique pieces of art on shelves and even suspending from ceilings. “We’re creative. We also had top quality plants. We got a reputation of quality plants and unusual products,” she said. It’s tending to her customers and her plants, showcasing the unusual products, and hosting special events to benefit the community that keep her motivated to work six to seven days a week. “I just love it. I love taking care of the plants. I’m one of the few people that really enjoys watering,” she said. And while she has cultivated a solid customer base over the years, she remains savvy in her marketing efforts to draw in new customers. For example, she does a gardening segment on CNY Central television; her active Facebook page has thousands of followers; and she hosts a number of unique events and classes that not only introduce her shop to potential new clients, but some benefit nonprofits as well. About 13 years ago, when the local symphony orchestra was struggling, she said she wanted to help. So, partnering with the group, she began offering concerts, called Soirees, featuring the Syracuse Orchestra’s string quartet. Following up on a suggestion from a customer whose brother is a deejay in retirement, specializing in sock hops, she hosted the greenhouse’s first sock hop. Plants got moved back toward the walls to make room for dancing; a caterer was brought in, offering diner-like food; guests came in period outfits; and proceeds went to the Food Bank of CNY. She is excited about doing it again in October. Via her website, she promotes the greenhouse as an “oasis in the snow,” offering visitors the opportunity to pick up some decorating and gift ideas while taking in the floral and citrus scents. And she also caters to her four-legged friends. Over this past winter, she said, she came up with a “brilliant idea,” although at the time she didn’t appreciate just how brilliant it would become. Feeling it too cold outside to take her dog for a walk, she opted to bring it into the greenhouse. And before long, she was inviting people to bring their dogs into the big greenhouse as well. She looks forward to extending that invitation again this upcoming winter season. For Watson and her customers, the greenhouse is always in season.

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

If You Visit JoJo’s Diner, Bring Your Appetite

By Stefan Yablonski Q: When did you open? A: We opened Oct. 1. Q: Did you have a previous business? A: This is my first business ever. Q: So why did you start this? A: I was cooking for people my entire life and I decided I’m just going to try it on my own. And here we are! Q: How’s business been? A: It’s been good. Kind of slow over the winter, but starting to pick up now that the weather is getting better. We have high hopes for spring. We were really hopping over the weekend when it was much nicer out. Q: What’s your best dish? A: Our junkyard plates are our huge specialty. It’s a huge messy plate of goodness. We also have breakfast sandwiches, waffles, smashburgers and more. Q: Do you own this building? A: We lease from Chuck Burger. He’s our landlord. He has been super helpful. He provided all the equipment. I didn’t have to. Q: You’re a breakfast spot? A: We do breakfast and lunch all day. It’s kind of our thing. We are open 7-3 every day except Tuesdays. Q: How big is your staff? A: Currently it’s one other person. It’s just been me on the front end and someone in the kitchen or vice versa. Q: It’s all to go? A: Everything comes out ‘to go’ — served in to-go containers. You can eat inside or you can take it with you. We don’t have to provide extra staff for waitresses and dishwashers and all that. Q: Do you have any business background? A: I did the small business program at the college. But that’s about it. We’re new, but we’re still building. We hope to grow and stay here for a long time.

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net

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USG leaders present on upcoming elections, votes on proctoring, mental health initiative

Undergraduate Student Government (USG) leaders presented on the spring election cycle, the Mental Health Committee's 'One Too Many' initiative, and the upcoming faculty vote on proctoring at Sunday's Senate meeting.

Apr 6 • 1:23 AM EDT • Health • dailyprincetonian.com

Bhatti: Republicans must restore, strengthen health care after gutting it

Michigan doctors worry about healthcare cuts by Trump and Republicans, impacting Medicaid and low-income families.

Apr 5 • 7:00 PM EDT • Health • detroitnews.com

When hospitals become corporations, what happens to patient safety?

In many medical malpractice cases, the public imagines a careless doctor making a single catastrophic mistake. In reality, serious medical errors are often the result of systemic pressures that pus…

Apr 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • thehill.com

Is it okay to eat standing up? A doctor weighs in.

That grab-and-go lunch might be the real problem.

Apr 5 • 8:01 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Commentary: When stars’ plastic surgery is played for your entertainment

Often when I’m scrolling through Instagram, hypnotized by the stream of videos, an actress’ face will cut through the noise. This isn’t a typical clip from a press junket or red carpet. Instead, it will feature side-by-side images of the star, one younger and one more recent. Then a content creator – perhaps a doctor or an aesthetician, sometimes wearing scrubs – will walk me through what cosmetic procedures they think the actress has had. (It’s much rarer that men get this kind of analysis.)

Apr 4 • 9:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • spokesman.com

Doctor discusses maternal health care as racial disparities persist

Apr 4 • 7:52 PM EDT • Health • wcnc.com

Penguins Defensive Prospect Assigned To Wilkes-Barre/Scranton

Apr 4 • 1:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Future of healthcare: Could AI someday replace doctors?

Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel gives his take on technology’s role in medicine on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

Apr 4 • 11:19 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

Recurring fevers, mental fog left this father ‘praying for death’

Doctors were stumped by an Oregon man’s deterioration. Then an infectious disease specialist had an aha moment.

Apr 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com

TheBodyPro: HIV-associated lipodystrophy persists as a health concern in the modern ART era

Lipodystrophy remains a real and present issue among HIV patients today — both as a legacy matter and as a still-emerging concern with a significant impact.

Apr 3 • 6:11 PM EDT • Health • eatg.org

I Personally Guarantee You Won't Be Able To Keep A Straight Face While Looking At These 31 Pictures That Are Impossible Not To Laugh At

Just what the doctor ordered.

Apr 3 • 9:16 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

We Asked a Doctor If Omega-3 Supplements Can Support Heart Health

Omega-3 fatty acids are widely known to support heart health, but supplementing with them may not be as effective as getting them from food. Learn whether omega-3 supplements can help boost your heart health.

Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • verywellhealth.com

‘We watched them die before our eyes’: Sudan health workers helpless amid medical shortages

As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan’s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices – with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.

Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.un.org

How gender-affirming care is becoming a political test for top medical groups

The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth.

Apr 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • 19thnews.org

'He got screwed': Former UVA Health CEO files defamation suit against lawyers over patient harm allegations

The former head of UVA Health is pushing back against allegations made by more than 30 doctors that his practices, policies, and procedures caused harm to patients.

Apr 2 • 4:08 PM EDT • Health • wtvr.com

Doctors, nurses arrested in SoCal health care fraud investigation

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced what they called a major health care fraud takedown throughout Southern California, which included the arrest of doctors and nurses.

Apr 2 • 3:21 PM EDT • Health • abc7.com

Sex at arm’s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find

Sensory organ in male cephalopod, known as hectocotylus, able to detect female hormone progesterone, even if male cannot see partner

Apr 2 • 2:17 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

Chinese satellite with robotic 'octopus arm' passes key refueling test in orbit — making longer-lived space assets more likely

The experimental Hukeda-2 satellite and its highly flexible robotic arm have passed a major refuelling test in low Earth orbit. The demonstration is the latest step toward China significantly expanding the longevity of its spacecraft.

Apr 2 • 11:33 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Vanderbilt Health lung transplant patients, doctors climb highest peak in the Americas

Aconcagua, elevation 22,837 feet, is one of the Seven Summits, the highest peaks in each continent. Two Vanderbilt Health patients participated.

Apr 2 • 11:28 AM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org

Octopath Traveler TRPG To Receive English Release

Dark Horse Books has partnered with Square Enix to bring the celebrated series to tabletop.

Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com

Sports medicine doctor: How to select your best running shoes

This sports medicine physician, who runs regularly, said finding the right running shoe and not overusing it can help prevent injuries.

Apr 2 • 6:56 AM EDT • Sports • kxii.com

Sports medicine doctor: How to select your best running shoes

This sports medicine physician, who runs regularly, said finding the right running shoe and not overusing it can help prevent injuries.

Apr 2 • 6:56 AM EDT • Sports • kolotv.com

Sports medicine doctor: How to select your best running shoes

This sports medicine physician, who runs regularly, said finding the right running shoe and not overusing it can help prevent injuries.

Apr 2 • 6:56 AM EDT • Sports • kbtx.com

Dayton health dept. launches hub showing community health data

The data includes community health outcomes, environmental measures, emergency preparedness data and more.

Apr 2 • 6:34 AM EDT • Health • spectrumnews1.com

Doctors blamed her symptoms on motherhood. She actually had mold illness.

Kate Ames spent years battling chronic symptoms like fatigue and joint pain. She later learned there was mold in her home that was making her sick.

Apr 2 • 6:31 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

New York Is a Hot Spot for Alpha-Gal. Why Doesn’t the State Track Cases?

In more than 10 states, laboratories or doctors must notify the state health authorities of each positive test for a marker of the syndrome.

Apr 2 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com

THC vapes used by teens impacting their health, doctors say

A small device, illegal to use in New York until age 21, is having ripple effects on schools.

Apr 1 • 6:09 PM EDT • Health • spectrumlocalnews.com

Houston doctor shares infertility journey, urges women to ‘own your health’ at Rebuilding HER conference

Dr. Chi Johnson, a Houston family medicine physician, shared her personal and professional experiences with infertility at the Rebuilding HER conference, highlighting the challenges Black women face in being heard by healthcare providers.

Apr 1 • 5:10 PM EDT • Health • click2houston.com

Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure

The "digital twins" helped doctors spot good targets for heart ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.

Apr 1 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org

Roseanne Barr, 73, fears she will 'die on the surgery table' after doctor told her she has a 'damaged' heart

Roseanne Barr says she isn't interested in getting surgery after a doctor told her she has a 'damaged' heart. The actress said she would prefer to 'just get a heart attack or a stroke' and be put in hospice care.

Apr 1 • 1:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Raw milk cheese is tied to E. coli outbreak: What to know, according to a doctor

While food safety experts renew warnings not to consume raw milk or cheeses made from it, consumers continue to seek these products. A doctor breaks down the issue.

Apr 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com

Lineup announced for Rochester Broadway Theatre League's 2026-2027 season

"BOOP! The Musical" will lead the next season beginning in October.

Apr 1 • 10:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com

Washington doctors are sounding alarm on cannabis health effects, survey shows

More than a decade after recreational cannabis was legalized in Washington, a new survey of health care providers suggests many clinicians are concerned about its effects on patients’ mental health.

Apr 1 • 7:53 AM EDT • Health • kiro7.com

A slowdown in US visa processing is wreaking havoc on foreign doctors’ lives

Physicians from countries Trump deemed national security threats are reaching the end of their visas without responses to their renewal applications.

Apr 1 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • politico.com

Health care polling as top issue for first time since 2020: Gallup

Americans are more concerned about the availability and cost of health care than any other domestic issue, reclaiming the top spot for the first time since 2020, according to a new Gallup poll. The…

Mar 31 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • thehill.com

Frankie and the Witch Fingers to perform at Gabe’s for Stop/Time Festival

Catch the electrifying on-stage dynamics of Frankie and the Witch Fingers at Stop/Time Festival as they effortlessly shift between the rumbling depths of sludgy metal and high-octane frantics of garage rock, showcasing their talent for stirring up a storm of melodies.

Mar 31 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com

‘Choctaw Traditions’ explores history, folklife, heritage of Mississippi natives

The book \

Mar 31 • 5:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • clarionledger.com

In MA, Doctors’ Day becomes rallying point for health care reform

Facing federal funding cuts and growing primary care shortages, Massachusetts physicians met with legislators on March 25 at the State House.

Mar 31 • 4:45 AM EDT • Health • metrowestdailynews.com