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.
It’s the latest state to limit children’s access to gender-affirming healthcare. Read more about the bad science behind these bans here.
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Most people don’t know what early pregnancy actually looks like. That complicates abortion discussions.
Ransomware attacks still plague our healthcare system. Steve Cagle’s cybersecurity company is trying to prevent them.
The company came to notoriety on TikTok where it advertised its mental health services—especially those focused on ADHD. Since then it’s come under regulatory scrutiny for its Adderall and Xanax prescription.
There’s a gap in research around fertility, and tech companies are surging in to fill the space. But they’re not tested rigorously enough for doctors to trust.
Babies are great. Bearded dragons are great. Salmonella? Not so great.
Instead of sentencing Elizabeth Holmes today as previously scheduled, the judge will hear arguments from her lawyers seeking a new trial.
They claim former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, who testified against Holmes, visited her and said he felt like he had done something wrong. Rosendorff later made a sworn declaration saying he stands by his testimony.
If you need a recap you can read Liz Lopatto’s report or watch our video series on the billion-dollar fraud.
Today, the FDA authorized booster shots for younger kids that protect against both the original strain of covid-19 and the omicron variant. Kids as young as six can get the Moderna version, and kids as young as five can get the Pfizer version. The boosters have been authorized in adults since August.
