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Risk for heart attack or stroke was halved with current season flu vaccine. HealthDay News — Influenza vaccination may offer cardiovascular protection even when it does not prevent infection, according to a study published online April 2 in Eurosurveillance. Roberto Croci, from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Sweden, and colleagues quantified the short-term cardiovascular risk within a week after laboratory-confirmed influenza infection and assessed whether vaccination attenuates risk. The analysis included 1221 individuals (age 40 years and older) with a first-ever hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or stroke within 365 days of a polymerase chain reaction-confirmed influenza infection. The researchers found that the 1221 individuals contributed 1231 influenza infection episodes, of which 610 (50%) were categorized as vaccinated and 621 (50%) were categorized as unvaccinated. After adjusting for calendar month, risk for cardiovascular events was elevated (overall incidence rate ratio , 3.5), particularly for AMI (IRR, 4.7) versus stroke (IRR, 2.9). There was significant reduction in the excess risk for AMI or stroke associated with influenza infection for those with prior influenza vaccination during the same influenza season. “Hospital admissions for heart attack and stroke were more frequent in the first week after testing positive for influenza

The following obituary was originally published by California-Nevada Conference  and can be found  here. It is with deep sadness that we inform you that our brother Rev. Donald Cunningham, died on January 14, 2026. Don served the California-Nevada Conference pastoring at Cherry Valley UMC, Chowchilla UMC, Dairyland UMC, Woodside Road UMC, First UMC Church, Oakland, and Burlingame UMC, until his retirement (1998). He later served as Pastor Emeritus at Twin Towers UMC. He also served as Shasta District Superintendent, Program Council Director, General Conference Delegate (California-Nevada Conference). Don was born January 28th, 1933 (Modesto, CA). He grew up in Ceres, CA graduating President of his Class (1950). He received honors throughout school including ‘Letters’ in Football, Basketball, Tennis, Track and field. He attended his local UMC, singing in the choir. He spent freshman year at UC Berkeley, then graduated from University of Pacific (1954 BA; Religious studies). He sang in the a cappella choir, where he met his beautiful wife, Lillian Wilson. Rev. Don graduated from Boston University School of Theology. Don strongly believed in God’s grace, and the spiritual knowledge we are all God’s children deserving of love, kindness, equity, and inclusion. He fought for the civil rights of

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The Cyber Security Hub™ The Cyber Security Hub™ World's Premier Cyber Security Portal Published Apr 10, 2026 Enterprise SIEMs have detection coverage for just 21% of MITRE ATT&CK techniques – leaving 79% structurally undetected. Another 13% of existing SIEM rules are already broken and will never trigger. Meanwhile, your analysts spend 70–80% of their shift investigating false positives, SOC turnover hit 28% annually in 2024, and 74% of breaches had alerts generated but ignored because teams were too overwhelmed to investigate. Traditional SOC architecture isn't a people problem. It's an architectural one. Our AI SOC vs Traditional SOC Guide is a decision framework for security leaders who need an honest, evidence-based comparison – rules vs. behavioral intelligence, manual vs. automated triage, non-deterministic risk governance, and a 10-point readiness scorecard – to determine which SOC model fits their environment in 2026 and what a phased migration actually looks like. Ready to stop defending yesterday's threats with yesterday's architecture? What's Inside the Guide We designed this framework to give security leaders the detection intelligence, triage architecture, and migration clarity to make the right call before the next breach makes it for them: Compare rule-based and intelligence-based detection on evidence, not vendor claims

Home Events WEBINAR: Ask Me Anything w/ Dr. Carol Wilkinson on Brain Development and Poverty Event April 16, 2026 1:30pm Online Hosted by Children, Youth and Family Funders Roundtable, this webinar explores how early financial strain can impact the way an infant’s brain develops. Dr. Carol Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research, Down’s Syndrome Program, will discuss her research on identifying biological and environmental factors that impact early brain development and long-term functioning. She will also explore effective therapies to improve outcomes and independence for all children, especially those with neurodevelopmental disorders. Register

LinkedIn is facing two class action lawsuits What's the story LinkedIn is embroiled in a legal battle over its practice of scanning users' browsers to identify their extensions. Two class action lawsuits were filed earlier this week in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaints were filed by different law firms representing different plaintiffs, with each seeking to represent a proposed class of all US-based LinkedIn users. BrowserGate report forms basis of lawsuits The lawsuits heavily rely on a recent BrowserGate report by Fairlinked, a German trade association and advocacy group for commercial LinkedIn users. The complaints claim that LinkedIn's practice of scanning browsers without adequate disclosure violates user privacy expectations. One lawsuit's named plaintiff, Nicholas Farrell, argued that "Plaintiff and Class members had an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy because, unlike other forms of tracking, Defendant does not disclose in its Privacy Policy or elsewhere that it tracks users' browser extensions." LinkedIn has not denied scanning browsers LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary, has not denied scanning browsers for extensions. However, it disputes whether it adequately discloses this practice and how it uses the information collected. The company says it scans for extensions that violate its

URochester scientists identify how warming oceans may trigger increased methane emissions, adding a key insight for current climate models. The world’s oceans may be quietly amplifying climate change in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Rochester scientists—including Thomas Weber, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and graduate student Shengyu Wang and postdoctoral research associate Hairong Xu in Weber’s lab—uncovered a key mechanism behind methane production in the open ocean. Their research indicates that this mechanism could intensify as the planet warms, providing an alarming feedback loop for global warming. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and for decades scientists have puzzled over a paradox: surface ocean waters consistently release methane into the atmosphere, even though surface water is rich in oxygen. Traditionally, methane production has been associated with oxygen-free environments, such as wetlands or deep sediments. Weber’s team set out to solve this puzzle using a global dataset and computer modeling. Their findings point to a specific microbial process that is responsible for methane production in the ocean environment: certain bacteria generate methane as a byproduct when