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Associated Press
20-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Formedics Partners with Elsevier to Deliver Digital Innovation and Sales Solutions for Leading Global Societies
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Formedics, a leading healthcare professional (HCP) collaboration platform, today announced a partnership with Elsevier, a global leader in advanced scientific information and decision support, to deliver world-class strategic and sales execution for more than 20 global medical societies. Formedics will enable advertising opportunities across these society partnerships, including implementing data-driven digital strategies to drive peer engagement and collaboration, precision targeting, customized content solutions, and innovative programs with Key Opinion Leaders and Digital Opinion Leaders. In addition, Formedics will lead media sales for the societies' peer-reviewed journals across 11 specialties and subspecialties, including print and digital advertising, sponsored content, and digital solutions. In addition to bringing focused expertise to support these medical societies, this collaboration will enable Elsevier to advance AI-enabled solutions that support the work of researchers and health care professionals. 'We are thrilled to be partnering with a global leader that shares our vision to revolutionize healthcare engagement,' said Greg Jackson, CEO of Formedics. 'Our expertise in developing platforms and content that facilitate HCP discussions and debate for peer learning and growth, will enable Elsevier to focus on the strategies and innovations that advance drug discovery and clinical research needed to continually enhance healthcare outcomes.' About Formedics, LLC Formedics is a platform where healthcare professionals connect, collaborate, and learn through peer-driven discussions with leading experts, opinion leaders, and specialized communities. The platform provides pharmaceutical and life sciences brands with powerful opportunities to engage and target physicians across digital, point-of-care, and live event channels. Founded in 2024, Formedics unites the strengths of Figure 1, Mashup Media, AMC Media Group, and Physician's Weekly to create a comprehensive ecosystem for HCP education. For more information, visit About Elsevier A global leader in advanced information and decision support, Elsevier helps to advance science and healthcare, to advance human progress. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making with innovative solutions based on trusted, evidence-based content and advanced AI-enabled digital technologies. We have supported the work of our research and healthcare communities for more than 140 years. Our 9,500 employees around the world, including 2,300 technologists, are dedicated to supporting researchers, librarians, academic leaders, funders, governments, R&D-intensive companies, doctors, nurses, future healthcare professionals and educators in their critical work. Our 2,900 scientific journals and iconic reference books include the foremost titles in their fields, including Cell Press, The Lancet and Gray's Anatomy. Together with the Elsevier Foundation, we work in partnership with the communities we serve to advance inclusion and diversity in science, research, and healthcare in developing countries and around the world. Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information on our work, digital solutions and content, visit View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Formedics, LLC
Los Angeles Times
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Clayton Kershaw shaky in his season debut as Angels take series win over Dodgers
Clayton Kershaw paused halfway up the dugout steps Saturday and bowed his head. The jog he was about to make to the mound at Dodger Stadium would be the first steps of what is likely the final chapter of his spectacular career. A moment of silent reflection was in order. Kershaw threw his last pitch in August at Phoenix's Chase Field; Corbin Carroll hit it over the right-field wall. Kershaw then walked off the mound and was put on the injured list with a bone spur on his left big toe. The first pitch of his latest comeback came at 6:10 p.m. Saturday, a high fastball that Zach Neto took for a ball. The rest of the inning went downhill from there, with Kershaw giving up three runs on three hits and two walks in the first inning. He recovered nicely, though, allowing two runs on two hits over the next three innings while striking out two in the first four innings of a wild game the Angels won, 11-9, behind a career-high five RBIs from catcher Logan O'Hoppe. Kershaw's return comes at a key time for the Dodgers, who are missing three starters — Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Roki Sasaki — to injury. 'I'm envisioning a shot in the arm of emotion, of intensity,' Dodger manager Dave Roberts said of Kershaw's return. 'I do believe in a player like Clayton, his track record, raising the level of performance, intensity to a ballclub.' A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw, 37, is the Dodgers' all-time leader in strikeouts and is 30 shy of becoming the 20th pitcher in big-league history to reach 3,000. His 212 career wins is second in franchise history behind only Don Sutton's 233 and his 2.50 ERA ranks third. He also ranks third in starts (430). But he's spent almost as much time on the injured list as he has in the Dodgers' rotation over the last five seasons and the list of injuries includes so many body parts, it reads like a page out of Gray's Anatomy. There's the toe, which kept him off the opening day roster. Last season it was knee, toe and shoulder injuries. In 2023, it was his left shoulder. The year before that, his back and pelvis and before that it was his forearm, elbow and back again. Last season was clearly the most painful though. Kershaw made seven starts and pitched just 30 innings, both career lows, and missed the World Series. Days after the team's victory parade, he underwent surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee and another on his left foot that left him on crutches and a walking boot for two months. 'The superstar players that I have been around, there's always something that fuels them and they need that,' Roberts said. 'Him not being a part of that last year, I know that that's fueling him.' With Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kershaw's high school teammate, looking on, Kershaw struggled through a 38-pitch first inning, giving up a bases-loaded single to O'Hoppe and an RBI double to Matthew Lugo. But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning. Taylor Ward put the Angels back in front in the third, hitting his 11th home run. A walk, a double and a sacrifice fly from Neto extended the lead in the fourth before Kiké Hernández pulled a run back for the Dodgers with a lead-off homer, his seventh, in the bottom of the fourth. The Dodgers went in front for the first time in the sixth, turning three walks, two hits, a stolen base, a wild pitch and a ground-ball double play into three runs and 7-5 lead that O'Hoppe erased with his 10th homer, highlighting a five-run Angel seventh inning. Five players — O'Hoppe, Luis Rengifo, Lugo, Nolan Schanuel and Kevin Newman — had two hits each for the Angels, who will try to sweep the three-game series Sunday afternoon. For the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman matched a season high with four hits and is batting .407 in May, raising his league-leading average to .375. Pages, Hernández and catcher Dalton Rushing each had two hits. Notes: Shohei Ohtani, who went hitless in six at-bats for the first time this season, threw 50 pitches in his most extensive bullpen session since undergoing a second surgery on his right elbow in 2023. The up-and-down session, in which Ohtani simulated a break between innings, was his second in a week. ... To make room for Kershaw on the 26-man roster the Dodgers optioned right-hander Ryan Loutos to the minors. To create space on the 40-man roster, the Dodgers moved Snell to the 60-day injured list.
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Issa Rae, Low Cut Connie cancel Kennedy Center shows amid Trump takeover
Artists are taking a stand against President Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center. Earlier this month, Donald Trump announced he would be the next chairman of the venerable arts institution. To that end, he ousted many members of the performing arts center's board and replaced them with loyalists like Second Lady Usha Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino. The Trump-approved board quickly voted the president into his new role and fired the center's long-time president, Deborah Rutter. The coup at the national cultural center has sparked an outcry among entertainers. Issa Rae chose to cancel an upcoming appearance at the venue in protest. The 'One of Them Days' producer thanked fans on Instagram but canceled the sold-out appearance 'due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums." The 'Insecure' co-creator and star's mid-March show was pulled from the Kennedy Center website later on Thursday. Philadelphia rock band Low Cut Connie also scrapped an event at the venue, citing Trump's overreach. 'Upon learning that this institution that has run non-partisan for 54 years is now chaired by President Trump himself and his regime, I decided I will not perform there,' a statement posted on Instagram read. 'Arts institutions are one area that should be immune from our corrosive political culture.' Several artists affiliated with the Kennedy Center have stepped away from their roles in the wake of Trump's power play. Shonda Rhimes, the producer, director and screenwriter behind hits like 'Gray's Anatomy' and 'Scandal,' stepped down from her post as the center's treasurer this week. Musician Ben Folds revealed that he would no longer work as an adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra, a group that calls the venue home.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Opinion: Quiet Over Trump's Kennedy Center Grab Risks ‘Capitulation'
The deafening silence washing over Washington is dangerous for democracy. With the swiftness of a string of social media posts culminating in an AI-generated image of himself as an orchestra conductor, President Donald Trump sealed his takeover of a landmark cultural institution with the words, 'Welcome to the New Kennedy Center!' Out with the old, in with the MAGA. Shocked and cowed, those ousted from the Kennedy Center's board have remained mum, including now former chairman David Rubenstein, a billionaire investor and owner of the Baltimore Orioles who has led the institution since he was appointed by President George W. Bush. There is no grudge too small for Trump to seek retribution. Snubbed by the cultural elites in Washington during his first term, Trump never attended the Kennedy Honors, an invitation-only event that every president or first lady traditionally attends. Trump bowed out after some honorees threatened to boycott, citing his reaction to the violent 2017 'Unite the Right' white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a protester was killed, and Trump said there were 'good people on both sides.' A White House statement at the time said the Trumps would 'allow the Honorees to celebrate without any political distraction.' After the four-year hiatus, President Biden renewed the Kennedy Honors tradition, and when he left office, he rewarded his top aides, political friends and allies with coveted seats on the Kennedy Center board, a common practice for an outgoing president, including Trump in his first term. But now he knows the ropes. He wasn't going to wait until 2028 to reward his people, putting his people in place with lightning speed with himself at the helm. The new Kennedy Center board includes his chief of staff Susie Wiles, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, White House personnel office director Sergio Gor, Usha Vance and Allison Lutnick, wife of Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Among the 18 Biden appointees Trump displaced are former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, longtime Biden advisor Mike Donilon, singer-songwriter Jon Batiste and Gray's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. Trump claimed on Truth Social that the Biden appointees are people 'who do not share our vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.' Musician Ben Folds and opera singer Renée Fleming quit. In announcing his takeover of the Kennedy Center, Trump told reporters during one of his rolling press conferences, 'I'm going to be chairman of it, and we're going to make sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke.' Just imagine the Trump-glorifying J6 Choir opera performances that he and his FBI Director Kash Patel have planned to remake the history of the assault on the Capitol. Trump, who officially became chairman of the board on Wednesday, zeroed in on programming last year that included a 'Dragtastic Dress-Up' for LGBTQ+ youth and their parents, a Dancing Queens Drag Brunch, and a Drag Salute to Divas preshow event, according to the Kennedy Center's website. They represent a small number of the 2,200 performances and exhibitions the iconic institution presents each year. For the MAGA crowd, this was like sending out a flare. 'It's symbolically powerful. Part of Making America Great Again, we're not going to have drag shows at the Kennedy Center,' Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist and professor of government at Dartmouth, told the Daily Beast. 'It's hard to see it as the most important threat under the circumstances,' Nyhan said, citing the looming constitutional crisis as Trump challenges courts to stop him. 'It's another signal of how an authoritarian leader can use state power to defeat the opposition.' Fired Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, who was already stepping down, issued a statement after Trump first made his predatory wishes known, saying, 'There is nothing in the Center's statute that would prevent a new administration from replacing board members.' The statement was later edited and then removed from the website, according to The New York Times. 'I don't think the Kennedy Center is the linchpin, it's early days, but it's right out of the democratic erosion playbook,' Nyhan says. 'I'm worried that it's making opposition to the administration seem too costly. Visible acts of opposition can be threatening to authoritarian leaders, and people in the arts play an important role in that opposition. 'Some will speak out and others will be quiet because they're fearful of harm to their career. It's the 'pacify the bully strategy,' if we just stay quiet, they'll forget about us and move on.' The Kennedy Center took down references to diversity, equity and inclusion on its website after Trump's executive order called these initiatives 'illegal and immoral.' There is silence at least so far from Rubenstein, the Kennedy Center's longtime leader and biggest donor by far, having contributed $111 million to the institution. He has maintained a cordial, even friendly relationship with Trump, but his Democratic roots go back to the Carter White House, where he served on Carter's domestic policy staff. And he loans his luxury home on Nantucket to the Biden family for Thanksgiving. 'The biggest danger in erosion of democracy is preemptive compliance,' says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who has long warned about what Trump will do to expand executive power. 'Big mistake,' he says, referring to the ease with which the Kennedy Center ceded power to Trump. Ornstein explains that they were relying on precedent set when Biden removed Sean Spicer, Trump's former press secretary, from the Naval Academy advisory board. Spicer sued and the judge ruled in Biden's favor. The crucial difference, Ornstein says, is that the Naval advisory board is an arm of government with one function, to give advice to the president. The Kennedy Center was created under charter by Congress as a public-private project with a board of directors serving six-year terms. There is a separate advisory committee on the arts, whose members serve at the pleasure of the president. But not the board, says Ornstein, who is adamant in making his argument that there is no explicit authority for Trump to remove people from the Kennedy Center board. 'It would be shocking to me if they did not bring a lawsuit,' he told the Daily Beast. Democrats are trying to find their voice as some counsel that not everything is a three-alarm fire. But sitting back and picking your fights has a price, cautions Ornstein. 'The Tim Snyders and Anne Applebaums of the world (who write about the threats to democracy), they all say the biggest problem is capitulation. If he gets away with this, any shows that reference Black people or gay people—or anything he might not like or is written by someone who said bad things about him—GONE.' And so it begins, a cultural center named after a revered former president gets redefined as the America Trump campaigned on that is free of Woke. How long before we see a Trump banner unfurled on the facade of the Kennedy Center?
