Health

It’s been six months since Natural Cycles began letting users import Oura Ring temperature data for its FDA-cleared digital birth control feature. There are a ton of privacy concerns with fertility tracking in the post-Roe era, but it appears the partnership is going well. The companies say 200,000 cycles and 6 million temperatures have been logged, with 98 percent of surveyed users saying they’ll continue using the integration to track their cycles.

After receiving complaints from state attorneys general that it was “discriminating against pro-life pregnancy resource centers,” Yelp is changing its notification about Crisis Pregnancy Centers, according to Axios.

According to Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer, the company’s employees won’t have to test before coming into the office starting in February, and will be getting less sick leave for covid. Apple implemented its office hybrid schedule last September.

According to the regulator, the so-called “Pharma Bro” hasn’t been complying with its investigation into whether his new company, Druglike, Inc, violates his ban from working in the pharmaceutical industry. A press release calls Druglike “a Web3 drug discovery software platform,” which definitely seems like something the world needs.

For years, scientists at the University of Florida have been on a quest to get the FDA to restrict the sale of cold medicines that they say are ineffective. Studies have shown that the ingredient phenylephrine is no better than a placebo.

My wife and I just rescued six perfectly good tests from the trash! Yes, many COVID-19 tests are effective longer than pharma companies originally wrote, and you can easily find the new date by looking up your test and its Lot Code at the FDA.

After stopping the program last September, the US government is now offering another set of four free home rapid antigen tests to each household. Here’s how you can order yours.

Just in case you missed Elon Musk’s “show and tell” about brain-computer interfaces last night, we have the key details for you, viewable in less than 15 minutes.

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!