Science & Technology

North America Holds Largest Market Share in 2024

Meticulous Research®—a leading global market research company, published a research report titled, ‘Newborn Screening Market Size, Share, Forecast, & Trends Analysis by Technology (Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Pulse Oximeter, Molecular Assay, Immune Assay) Application (CHD, Infectious Diseases, Hearing Disorder) Product, End User – Global Forecast to 2031.’ According to this latest publication from Meticulous Research®,by 2031, the newborn screening market could be worth close to $2.7 billion. That is steady growth, about 7–8% every year. The rise is not surprising. More children are being born, and doctors continue to see higher numbers of genetic issues and congenital heart defects. Simple screening tests like routine blood tests, quick hearing checks, or even a pulse oximetry reading are making it easier to catch these problems in the first days of life. What is interesting is how governments are shaping...
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In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading
Health News

In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading

August 13, 2025 Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public health infrastructure US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks behind President Donald Trump during an executive orders signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images) New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: In 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached a record high. These statistics became all the more disturbing last fall when, shortly after 286,000 children began their educations without proof of full immunity against measles, a man who has bragged about never getting a flu shot was reelected to the presidency. Since then,...
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Is Elon Musk’s “America Party” Worth Taking Seriously?
Politics

Is Elon Musk’s “America Party” Worth Taking Seriously?

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang.There have been several political groupings called the American Party, or something similar, in U.S. history. Perhaps most famously, this was the official name of the Know Nothings, the once secret society (members were told to deny knowledge of it, hence “know nothing”) that developed a virulently anti-immigrant platform and became, according to Smithsonian Magazinethe country’s “first major third party.” In the early nineteen-hundreds, an American Party in Utah sprang up in opposition to the Mormon church; the following decade, one was formed in New York State by supporters of William Sulzer, a former governor who had tangled with Tammany Hall and been impeached and convicted—to this day the lone New York governor to hold that distinction, though perhaps owing only...
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America reaches the campaign’s final weekend with the same divide over Trump that has roiled politics for a decade
Politics

America reaches the campaign’s final weekend with the same divide over Trump that has roiled politics for a decade

Politics tamfitronics WASHINGTON — A campaign that has featured a felony convictiona televised assassination attempt and a late withdrawal of a sitting president has reached its final weekend with the same chasm that has dominated American politics for the last decade: between voters who fear former President Trump will destroy the country and those who believe it has already lost its way.“We have a wonderful system of government,” said Susan Markowitz, a 72-year-old attorney from Doylestown, Pa., who showed up at a recent event for Vice President Kamala Harris. “That is in danger if Mr. Trump gets back into office.”“He’s not the status quo,” said Dave Duncan, a 58-year-old salesman from Macomb Township, Mich., who supports Trump. “And I think that’s a lot of times the thing that people like about him.” ...
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