Recent breakthroughs in therapies and diagnostics are creating real hope in Alzheimer's disease care — especially for treating early symptomatic stages of the disease. But despite this progress, major healthcare system and awareness gaps still risk leaving too many people behind.
We sat down with Laura Steele, Senior Vice President of U.S. Neuroscience at Lilly, to unpack how scientific progress has produced innovations that can improve detection and diagnosis for people with Alzheimer's disease. She also discussed what health care providers and policymakers must do to unlock the full value of these innovations.
Ten years ago, Stuart Sopp and Trevor Marshall founded Current to make banking services accessible and affordable to all Americans, especially those traditional banks were not properly serving.
President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday at the COP30 UN summit.
The big picture: Without naming Trump, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said "extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming." Chile and Colombia's leaders both specifically singled out the U.S. president in their COP30 speeches.
Nearly half of the United States could catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights on Thursday night into Saturday.
Why it matters: It's shaping up to be one of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year, offering a rare opportunity to see the Aurora Borealis as far south as Indiana.
OpenAI on Thursday released a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, per a copy first shared with Axios.
Why it matters: OpenAI is trying to get ahead of criticism — and shape the norms for teens' use — by touting its new safety mechanisms to policymakers.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and physician Priscilla Chan announced Thursday they're refocusing their philanthropy to the intersection of biology and AI to help cure disease.
Why it matters: The couple behind the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), long known for funding education and housing, is now betting that AI can help scientists prevent, manage and cure disease faster.
Carbon removal startup Avnos has landed $17 million in project finance from Shell and Mitsubishi Corp. to build a "commercial demonstration" plant, the company first told Axios.
Why it matters: Avnos says its approach pulling CO2 and water from the atmosphererequires far less energy than other direct air capture methods, and produces lots of usable water.
Wall Street analysts are stuck in outdated, favoritism-driven ways of thinking and can't understand the success of companies like Palantir, co-founder and CEO Alex Karp told Axios' Mike Allen on "The Axios Show."
The big picture: The tech company's stock slid about 5% over the last week after a ferocious run in recent years — with a 267% rise in the past 12 months alone.
