The number of organ donors jumps 21 percent per day during motorcycle rallies, compared to before and after the rallies. That’s six additional transplant recipients for every two rallies!
The FDA seems to be having a hard time enforcing its own rules. STAT reporter Nicholas Florko went to drug stores and gas stations in a six-mile radius around FDA headquarters, and managed to buy an armful of illegal products — from skin lightening cream to sexual supplements.
New job perk just dropped: a “career coach” who also serves as the personal therapist for a large swath of the company. From Vice:
In his telling, Lerner worked for FTX not exactly as a therapist and certainly not as a doctor, but as a coach, even as he maintained independent doctor-patient relationships with about 20 employees and prescribed medication to at least some of them.
In this capacity, Lerner said, he was focused on the well-being of the company’s employees, not only concerning himself with their careers, but their personal (and even dating) lives, at times searching out potential “dating options” for company employees in the Bahamas in order to keep them at the company without relying on in-office romance.
As temperatures drop, covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are all getting more people sick. There are vaccines available for two of those diseases, but despite decades of research, there hasn’t been a way to protect against RSV, a respiratory illness that can cause serious illness, especially in young infants.
However, as Nicole Wetsman explains, that might be different next year.
