The three-year pilot program did not deliver the results hoped for, the health minister said. It had allowed drug users to avoid criminal charges for possessing small amounts of illegal substances. By ...

SEATTLE — New mayor Katie Wilson has denied the Seattle Police Officers Guild's (SPOG) allegations of a directive that ordered officers to halt open drug use arrests. The Seattle Police Officers Guild ...

Medicare is launching a new pilot program that will require prior approval for 17 health services using artificial intelligence tools. The Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model is ...

Robert Payne lost his brother at a young age. The 66-year-old said he “tried to use drugs and everything else (so that) I could not feel and remember what had happened.” He said that when the money ...

The CMS Innovation Center has debuted a new model to encourage the use of technology to treat chronic diseases, which could be a boon for health tech companies that have struggled with reimbursement.

Property taxes are due in counties around Oregon this month and the annual bills can run several thousand dollars. That’s a heavy lift, particularly for people on a fixed income, and taxes can make it ...

AI-powered bug hunting has changed the calculus of what makes for an effective bounty program by accelerating vulnerability discovery — and subjecting code maintainers to ballooning volumes of AI flaw ...

With the prevalence of microcontrollers (MCUs) as processing units in safety-related systems (SRS) comes the need for diagnostic measures that will ensure safe operation. IEC 61508-2 specifies ...

The White House said Tuesday it will use money from tariff revenue to fund a supplemental nutrition program facing a funding shortage amid the ongoing government shutdown. White House press secretary ...

Editor’s Note: The Trump administration has clarified that it will use Section 32 tariff revenue, which typically supports child nutrition programs, to extend funding for WIC during the shutdown — ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

Vibe coding is the next evolutionary step in how generative AI is impacting coding and the software development lifecycle. Vibe coding, or AI-assisted development, lets a developer or less technical ...