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The October 2026 Visa Bulletin has opened the new fiscal year with an unusual split. Several employment-based green card categories for China and India moved forward, including the return of visa availability in two categories that had closed for India. At the same time, EB-2 and EB-3 applicants from most other countries lost ground. The … Read more
CMS now has something the US healthcare system has talked about for years: a national, searchable provider directory that can also be downloaded and used by software. The National Provider Directory is already live at directory.cms.gov. People can search by provider name, location, specialty or NPI, providers can review their own information, and developers can … Read more
Federal regulators have issued an early safety alert involving a disposable breathing circuit used to provide respiratory gas to newborns and infants during critical and emergency care. FDA officials announced the alert on September 3, 2026, after Draeger identified a potential problem involving its VentStar Resus Neo breathing circuit, model MP00310. Designed for infants weighing … Read more
Researchers in South Florida have been trying to solve one frustrating problem for years. Burmese pythons are huge, destructive and firmly established in the Everglades, yet finding them can be surprisingly difficult. So a team from the University of Florida and the South Florida Water Management District tried something unusual. They built robotic rabbits and … Read more
NOAA now sees a 75% chance that the 2026 El Nino will become stronger than any event in its modern record. The September 10 ENSO Diagnostic Discussion puts the key period between October and December. NOAA says there is a 75% chance that the three-month Relative Oceanic Nino Index, or RONI, will reach +2.5°C or … Read more
Imagine 9:12 in the morning. One AI agent finds an old cloud key that somebody forgot to revoke. Two minutes later, another has tested it against several services and found a working login. By 9:17, the useful part is no longer the key itself. Other agents can already be checking databases, code repositories and internal … Read more
The National Institutes of Health is putting more than $95 million into research tools designed to study human biology without relying as heavily on animals. The new investment, announced September 21, includes $88 million for research facilities across the United States and more than $7 million in prizes for technologies that could improve drug safety … Read more
A Trump administration public charge rule took effect September 18, expanding the information immigration officers can consider when reviewing some applications for permanent residence. The Department of Homeland Security has rescinded regulations adopted in 2022 that narrowly defined which public benefits entered a public charge assessment. Officers now have greater discretion to examine means-tested assistance … Read more
Intercon Chemical Co. has recalled six hand soaps after bacterial contamination was found or suspected in the products, covering 2,696 shipping cases distributed through 20 business recipients in 15 states. The St. Louis company began the voluntary recall on June 29, 2026. FDA classified the products as a Class II recall on September 11, meaning … Read more
A widely used hospital antibiotic is under fresh scrutiny after a major new analysis found a possible increase in deaths among patients treated with cefepime compared with other beta-lactam antibiotics. The finding comes from a new JAMA Network Open study published September 10. Researchers combined 110 randomized clinical trials involving 22,608 patients, making it one … Read more