If you’re using one of 23 popular supplements, some cool and thorough investigative work at Consumer Reports can tell you the answer is probably yes — and explain why US health regulators aren’t doing anything about it.
The Pew Research Center published a study of how parents are managing their kids’ screen time. Which got us wondering: how are you, dear reader, managing your kids’ screen time? Do you have time limits for video games? A “kid-safe” phone like Gabb? Do you let your eight-year-old talk to ChatGPT? Let us know in the comments.
The embryos all had chromosomal abnormalities and weren’t meant to lead to a pregnancy. But the results open up questions about potential infertility treatments in the future.
Trump and RFK are blaming the painkiller acetaminophen for autism without conclusive scientific evidence.
RFK also claims that leucovorin, a type of folate, can be used to treat autism. The FDA is also planning to approve prescription leucovorin for the treatment of autism in children. “The evidence that it works is scant,” NPR reports.
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“If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land,” University of California, San Francisco professor Tracey Woodruff tells The New York Times, which first reported on the proposal.
Apple says no, but a lawsuit accuses Jay Blahnik of creating a toxic work environment, reports The New York Times:
When confronted with Mr. Blahnik’s behavior, Apple moved to protect him after an internal investigation. The company settled one complaint alleging sexual harassment by Mr. Blahnik and is fighting a lawsuit by an employee, Mandana Mofidi, who said he had bullied her.
It’s a complete overhaul of the Fitbit app, centered around the concept of adjustable, conversational coaching.
The draft, obtained by Politico last week, outlines the health secretary’s plan to “make our children healthy again.” As spotted by Ars Technica, that apparently includes a study to “identify gaps in knowledge” on the same kind of radiation emitted by 5G towers and Wi-Fi routers — a common subject of conspiracy theories.
That was the US Health Secretary’s explanation regarding the administration’s decision to cancel millions of dollars in mRNA vaccine contracts.
“You can’t control the amount of energy that everybody is getting” when giving vaccines, he said. Your guess is as good as mine.
I’ve lived in that future. Before my health improved, I spiraled into obsession, injury, and disordered eating.
After stepping down from X in July, Yaccarino is taking the CEO job at eMed Population Health, which makes a digital health platform for managing GLP-1 weight loss drugs.
Google dubbed an error from its Med-Gemini model a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine.
The Trump administration proposed tossing out the landmark 2009 “endangerment finding” that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act.
Greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane cause climate change, of course. Climate change is projected to lead to roughly 250,000 additional deaths each year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat illness between 2030 and 2050, according to the World Health Organization.
Whoop’s FDA notice is a reminder that it’s harder to tell what’s a medical feature and what’s “just for fun.”
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees told CNN that Elsa — the AI model that’s supposed to help speed up approvals of pharmaceuticals and medical devices — isn’t working great. Instead, it cites nonexistent studies, misrepresents research, fails to access crucial documents, and wastes a bunch of their time. Not quite the “AI revolution” RFK Jr. promised.
What do a filmmaker in Wisconsin, billionaire investor Bill Ackman, The Guardian, and a doctor who posted on TikTok all have in common? UnitedHealth has targeted them in an effort to clamp down on criticism. The company’s legal tactics have only intensified after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The New York Times reports.
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Gemini’s on the wrist, there’s a new Antioxidant Index, and a slightly updated Ultra, too.
House Democrats are holding a science fair of canceled grants in Washington, DC today to call attention to research projects that the Trump administration has defunded.
Publishing giant Springer Nature is losing millions as a result, Axios reports.
President Trump is also working to slash funding for research institutions in the US, while hundreds of scientists and engineers have accused his administration of censorship.
The Trump administration is thinking about scrapping a ban on white asbestos, a material used in roofing, chlorine manufacturing, and more. White asbestos is banned in many countries; exposure to it has been linked to lung cancer and other serious health risks.
“By siding with corporate polluters and willfully ignoring decades of public health evidence, they are dismantling life-saving protections,” Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, said in a press release today.
