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Electricity is gaining newfound traction as a potential treatment for diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to hard-to-treat cancers including glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. Pacemakers for decades have delivered electric pulses to keep heartbeats steady, and electroconvulsive therapy has helped people with serious mental illness after other treatments have failed. Now new technologies and devices are widening the scope of how electric fields and pulses could be used as medicine.

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Jan 9, 2025 | wsj.com | Carl Churchill |Peter Champelli |Katherine Sayre

Extreme winds stoked the fire, evacuation routes were packed, thousands of homes burnedYour browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:19This article is in your queue. A brush fire on Tuesday set off one of the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: the Palisades fire. By Thursday evening, nearly 20,000 acres of land and thousands of structures had been burned, displacing thousands of residents.

Jan 9, 2025 | wsj.com | Carl Churchill |Peter Champelli |Katherine Sayre

Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:20This article is in your queue. A brush fire on Tuesday set off one of the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: the Palisades fire. By Thursday evening, nearly 20,000 acres of land and thousands of structures had been burned, displacing thousands of residents. Here’s how the blaze swiftly traveled from the brush-filled hills to nearby residential enclaves, forcing residents to quickly move south through gridlocked paths.

Nov 25, 2024 | jp.wsj.com | Benjamin Katz |Daniel Kiss |Peter Champelli

“Are those fireworks or something?” asked a passenger on Emirates flight EK146 from Amsterdam to Dubai last month, in a video posted to social media. In fact, what she was watching through her cabin window was a barrage of Iranian missiles headed to Israel. Her flight was one of scores that shared the skies with Iranian missiles on Oct. 1, an example of how the escalating conflict in the Middle East is endangering commercial aircraft in some of the world’s busiest skies.