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A 2021 stage work called Once Before I Go takes on Ireland's tough history with HIV and queer life. The piece doesn't just tell a story. It digs into how laws, church rules, and silence shaped lives that felt unsafe or unwelcome. The play looks at five big forces that hurt queer and HIV-positive people in Ireland. These include criminalization, Catholic control, public health silence, pressure to act 'normal,' and being pushed aside. Together, these made the country hard to live in for many. Using ideas from scholar Sara Ahmed about 'queer use,' the article sees the play as something new. It brings back forgotten histories, bodies, and grief. But it does not let AIDS death mean punishment. Instead, it turns pain into power. The main character Bernard is shown as sick but not broken. His

A brand‑new correction steps forward to explain how scientists tackled the nasty chemical erosion that forms at the border between the electrode and the electrolyte inside lithium metal batteries, a spot that can quickly wear out the cell and raise safety worries. They applied an ultra‑thin layer of a ferroelectric material that lines the interface and arranges its electric dipoles in a way that blocks the harmful reactions, keeping the surface stable while the battery charges and runs. When the dipoles are neatly ordered, the aggressive chemicals find it tougher to attack the metal, so the battery can store more energy and stay safer for longer, which is a big win for electric cars and everyday gadgets. The update also mentions the original article’s DOI, showing that this correction i

Between 2013 and 2023, there were about 6. 7 million hospital stays for brain and nerve conditions among Medicare patients. That sounds like a lot, but the number of stays actually fell by roughly one third. Fewer people were admitted for neurologic care over those ten years. Even though admissions dropped, the bill hospitals sent for each stay grew a lot. After taking inflation into account, the average charge per stay jumped from roughly forty‑eight thousand dollars to about seventy‑seven thousand dollars – an increase of about sixty percent. Meanwhile, what Medicare actually paid per stay rose only twenty‑five percent, from about ten‑two thousand to twelve‑eight thousand dollars. Because payments lagged behind charges, the shortfall ratio climbed from 0. 74 to 0. 80. Hospitals in big cit

AI tools are changing how doctors diagnose and treat patients. But these systems can accidentally copy unfair patterns from old medical records. That means some groups might get worse care without anyone noticing. Most bias fixes only look at one problem at a time. Real patient data is messy. It has many types of bias all mixed together. This makes it hard to catch every issue before it affects care. Researchers built a step-by-step plan to find and fix these hidden problems. The plan checks for five main types of bias in health data. It also tests how well AI models work for different patient groups. They tested this plan on real hospital data from over 130 US hospitals. The data covered diabetes patients. They split the data so 80% trained the AI and 20% tested it. One version used a

Not eating well causes real damage to people’s health. Doctors have not had great ways to fix that problem. Now, a new idea is growing. It is called "Food is Medicine," or FIM for short. These programs try to stop sickness or help manage it by giving people healthy food. They also work on the reasons why eating right feels so hard. FIM comes in different forms. Some programs hand out produce or groceries. Others give meal kits or already cooked meals. Some pair food with lessons about nutrition. The main goal stays the same across all types. They want to remove the gap between knowing what to eat and actually getting it. Studies on FIM show some good news. Many participants see better blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol numbers. Some use the hospital or emergency room less often

Scientists wanted to understand why some athletes completely fall apart when the pressure is on. You know that feeling when you are about to do something important and your brain just goes blank? Some people experience this so severely that it ruins their performance. The researchers decided to look into whether a special kind of hypnotherapy could help. Eight athletes volunteered for this study. The group included one fencer, one soccer player, one baseball player, and five golfers. All of them struggled with choking under pressure. The researchers used a technique called affect bridge age regression. This means they guided the athletes back to early memories while they were in a hypnotic state. The goal was to find connections between past emotional experiences and their current struggl