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Bitcoin price hits $69,500 because US just doubled Treasury buybacks to crush long-term yields
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government debt. On Aug. 19, the Treasury Department said it will raise the maximum size of its liquidity-support operations for 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion
Bitcoin’s Volatility May Be Down But Expect a ‘Meaningful Move’ Soon, Says Fidelity
Bitcoin has been sitting still recently, and the coin’s volatility is now lower than 98.5% of all days in its 17-year history, according to asset manager Fidelity. Writing on X, the firm’s digital asset arm said that spot trading volume was also at its lowest level since 2019. Bitcoin’s price is virtually unmoved over a
The Bitcoin Trading Challenge: Trade BTC for a chance to win your share of 1 BTC
TL;DR Kraken is running the Bitcoin Trading Challenge , a one-month BTC perp trading competition with a prize pool of 1 BTC, paid in Bitcoin rather than a fiat equivalent. The competition runs from August 19 to September 19, 2026 and is open to eligible clients outside the EEA, US, UK, Australia and Canada. Traders
Conversion therapy is soul-crushing — and it doesn’t work
RNS) — None of the hundreds of people I met in conversion therapy received the miracle we’d been promised. In fact, it has been discredited by every major medical and mental health organization as ineffective and harmful...
35 Years of Cell and Gene Therapy | Mirage News
Kyoto, Japan -- Cell and gene therapies, or CGT, have come a long way since they were first introduced. In the last few decades, both cell therapy -- the transplantation of living cells -- and gene therapy -- the use of genetic material to modify cell functions -- have been increasingly incorporated into clinical practice.
From gene therapy breakthroughs to preventable disease outbreaks: The health trends that will shape 2026
Science & Nature Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in 2026...Read MoreTama Damron
Why AI ‘Therapy’ Can Be So Dangerous
Artificial intelligence chatbots don’t judge. Tell them the most private, vulnerable details of your life, and most of them will validate you and may even provide advice. This has resulted in many people turning to applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT for life guidance. But AI “therapy” comes with significant risks—in late July OpenAI CEO Sam
Step forward in gene therapy to treat cause of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University of Utah Health scientists have corrected abnormal heart rhythms in mice by restoring healthy levels of a protein that heart cells need to establish connections with one another. That protein, GJA1-20k, is underproduced in people with a genetic condition called arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, one of the leading causes of sudden cardiac
CAR T-Cell Therapy: Managing Costs and Finding Financial Assistance
CAR T-cell therapy can be expensive, but there are a few ways you can manage costs.How Much Is CAR T-Cell Therapy?Experts estimate that CAR T-cell therapy can cost between $500,000 and $1,000,000.“CAR [T-cell therapy] is the most expensive Medicare diagnosis-related drug,” says Brian Koffman, MD, founder of the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Society. Although new medicines
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Bitcoin price hits $69,500 because US just doubled Treasury buybacks to crush long-term yields
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government debt. On Aug. 19, the Treasury Department said it will raise the maximum size of its liquidity-support operations for 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion
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Bitcoin’s Volatility May Be Down But Expect a ‘Meaningful Move’ Soon, Says Fidelity
Bitcoin has been sitting still recently, and the coin’s volatility is now lower than 98.5% of all days in its 17-year history, according to asset manager Fidelity. Writing on X, the firm’s digital asset arm said that spot trading volume was also at its lowest level since 2019. Bitcoin’s price is virtually unmoved over a
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The Bitcoin Trading Challenge: Trade BTC for a chance to win your share of 1 BTC
TL;DR Kraken is running the Bitcoin Trading Challenge , a one-month BTC perp trading competition with a prize pool of 1 BTC, paid in Bitcoin rather than a fiat equivalent. The competition runs from August 19 to September 19, 2026 and is open to eligible clients outside the EEA, US, UK, Australia and Canada. Traders
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Fake Drugs Kill Faster Than Bandits — Ondo CMD
By Promise Adagba The Chief Medical Director of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Ondo, Prof. Michael Gbala, has raised concerns over the growing threat of counterfeit medicines. Speaking during a familiarisation visit by the Senior Consultant on Pharmaceutical and Medical Investments to the Ondo State Government, Dr. Samuel Oluwaoromipin Adekota, to the
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VanEck Says Bitcoin May Be Nearing the End of Its 11-Month Correction
Eight of 12 capitulation signals were firing as of 12 August, and all 12 reached their capitulation zone at some point in the prior three months, VanEck said. VanEck flags that its drawdown signal fires on an absolute minus 35% rule; on its own percentile rule the count would be seven of 12. Bitcoin closed