Plus: Dems embrace Trump | Friday, October 18, 2024
| | | | | | | Presented By Instagram | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Oct 18, 2024 | | Happy Friday! Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 444 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: AI fuels cancer breakthroughs | | |  | | | Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Axios | | | | AI and other new technologies are ushering in a revolution in cancer care, Axios Future of Health Care author Caitlin Owens reports. - AI tools are going to "start generating much more patient-specific insights," former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said. "And that's really the future."
The big picture: The holy grail of cancer treatment is precision medicine — care tailored to a patient's unique manifestation of the disease. - Getting there requires better insight into each patient's cancer, more sophisticated tools to help match it to the right treatment, and the ability to do that work at scale — and at a price patients and insurance companies can handle.
- All that is happening, or at least getting closer.
Go deeper. |     | | | | | | 2. 📺 Vulnerable Dems embrace Trump | | | | Image: Bob Casey for Senate Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports. - Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) both released ads today that include images of Trump — and not to bash him.
- Casey's ad brags that he "sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating."
- Baldwin's says she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill."
Image: Tammy Baldwin for Senate In Michigan, the Senate campaign of a third Democrat, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, spent more than $1 million on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices." - Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) have taken a similar tack.
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- 💻 The Justice Department charged two Sudanese brothers with operating a hacking group that launched more than 35,000 attacks in the last year against hospitals, government offices and other major organizations. Go deeper.
- 💼 CVS Health today announced the sudden ouster of CEO Karen Lynch. CVS is reportedly weighing a breakup plan that could separate the company's Aetna insurance business and its retail pharmacy division. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🌽 1 for the road | | | | Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images An aerial view shows people on a bridge as they navigate one of the world's largest corn mazes, at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif. - The giant maze takes about two hours to complete, and has twice earned a Guinness World Record as the world's largest corn maze.
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