Toxins are impossible to ignore because they are everywhere. They’re in the air, the water you drink and the food you eat. Unsurprisingly, being constantly exposed to chemical pollutants is putting your health in grave danger. These chemicals make you age faster than normal, putting you at a higher risk for chronic diseases and premature death. Research continues to expose the long-term damage that pollutants, heavy metals, and chemicals inflict on the body. Emerging studies now reveal exactly how these toxins damage cells and what can be done to slow or reverse their effects. Heavy Metals in the Environment Age…

Secure Network Analytics version 7.5.2 has been released, offering exciting new features such as the Network Visibility Module (NVM) and Zeek detections. We are expanding our detections across existing and new sources, and our detections engine now ingests NVM telemetry and Zeek logs, introducing nine new alerts prominently displayed in Analytics. These alerts are also aligned with the widely recognized MITRE ATT&CK framework. By integrating a more diverse range of telemetry sources, Secure Network Analytics significantly enhances network visibility and provides deeper insights into network activities. This release and its detections represent an advanced approach to broadening detection sources and…

Amanda Cruz took care of her mother, who died of cancer late last year. The experience changed her sense of identity. She is still sorting through what that means. Laura Bilson for NPR hide caption toggle caption Laura Bilson for NPR When it was all over, Amanda Cruz felt like a phoenix, a new person rising from what had been. First, though, she had to go through the fire. Pre-caregiving Amanda was a talker. When she was 2 years old, she always waved to everyone on the bus. In her 20s, she moved to Denmark for graduate school knowing nobody…

The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception. This policy change has attracted little attention amid the wholesale dismantling of American foreign aid, but it stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty. It derails an effort that had brought long-acting contraceptives to women in some of the poorest and most isolated parts of the world in recent years. The United States provided about 40 percent of the funding governments contributed to family planning programs in…