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The Zacks Business - Services industry is benefiting from rising outsourcing demand, digital transformation, infrastructure investment and companies’ growing focus on workforce productivity. Providers are increasingly combining specialized expertise, technology and recurring service models to help clients lower costs, improve operations and address complex labor and operational requirements. ConcentrixCNXC, SodexoSDXAY and ABM IndustriesABM are positioned across customer experience solutions, food services and facility management. Artificial intelligence and automation are also reshaping service delivery. Concentrix is integrating AI into customer experience solutions, while Sodexo and ABM can leverage technology to improve workforce deployment, operational execution and service efficiency. However, rapid technological change requires sustained investment and may expose less-differentiated offerings to pricing pressure. Demand remains supported by businesses’ need to enhance customer engagement, maintain facilities and improve operational efficiency.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could transform diabetes management for millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes who don't take insulin, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial found that adults using CGMs spent approximately five additional hours each day within their target blood sugar range compared with those receiving routine care. Nearly twice as many CGM users also achieved an A1c level below 7%, a common treatment goal for people with diabetes.

Patients who wore noise-canceling headphones during minimally invasive gynecological surgery were significantly less likely to experience postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), suggest findings from a randomized clinical trial presented at the Anesthesiology 2026 annual meeting.