Google hires former FDA digital health leader
Bakul Patel was a digital health leader at the FDA and will now lead Google’s health strategy. There’s a new revolving door between Google,...
Read moreBakul Patel was a digital health leader at the FDA and will now lead Google’s health strategy. There’s a new revolving door between Google,...
Read moreThe FDA released a document with information about its decision to not authorize fluvoxamine to treat COVID-19. It’s unusual for the agency to...
Read moreWildfires pose at least some risk to a majority of properties in the continental US, according to new data. The new search tool allows property...
Read moreScientists from the University of Cambridge have used algae to power a low-energy ARM computer chip for six months continuously. They hope that in...
Read moreNew research hints at a potential relationship between an enzyme and sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, but the study is preliminary and...
Read moreSpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink is now available and shipping immediately in 32 countries around the world. It includes most of Europe...
Read moreKeith Diaz, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center, was asked to testify in the trial of Richard Dabate, who was convicted this week of...
Read moreOn May 12th, astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration unveiled an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the...
Read moreOn May 12th, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which unveiled the first black hole image in 2019, will reveal something...
Read moreOn May 4th, NASA’s InSight lander on Mars detected the most powerful marsquake the spacecraft has felt ever since landing in 2018 — a magnitude 5...
Read moreGoogle is relaxing its ban on ads for stem cell therapies and will allow ads from companies that have FDA approval. Stem cell treatments are often...
Read moreThe DOJ issued a subpoena for documents related to Cerebral’s practices prescribing controlled substances like Adderall and Ritalin that treat...
Read moreThe first patient receiving a heart transplant with a pig heart might have died because the heart was infected with a virus, not because his body...
Read moreThe leaked Supreme Court opinion indicating that the court will overturn Roe v. Wade raised concerns that data from period tracking apps could be...
Read moreThe Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station ended today as three NASA astronauts — Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron — as...
Read moreCompanies like Amazon are offering to cover abortion-related travel for employees, just as the Supreme Court is poised to gut protections for the...
Read moreThe drugs mifepristone and misoprostol make safe, self-managed abortion an option for many pregnant people even after the repeal of Roe v. Wade....
Read moreResearchers have unveiled a new method to control a swarm of drones. The swarm can autonomously navigate a dense forest and track humans. Experts...
Read morePrivacy policies for mental health apps like BetterHelp and Cerebral include language that lets the apps change the policies without warning or sell...
Read morePillPack, which Amazon bought in 2018, admitted to sending patients more insulin than Medicare and Medicaid rules allow. The company paid around $6...
Read moreExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies have turned to Bitcoin mining to address a gas problem. But their plans come with risks. Of all the...
Read moreThe Department of Energy announced new funding for companies making batteries for electric vehicles and clean energy. The goal is to build up supply...
Read moreSmall satellite launch company Rocket Lab will attempt to catch one of its Electron rockets in mid-air after launch, using a helicopter to snag the...
Read moreCalifornia’s Inland Empire is a canary in the coal mine for America’s warehouse boom. Researchers mapped 1 billion square feet of warehouses in...
Read moreA Mozilla report found that mental health and prayer apps have particularly bad data privacy protections. The apps suck up personal information and...
Read moreCalifornia wants to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for perpetuating myths about recycling. The state’s attorney general launched an...
Read moreNASA has released images of a wreckage from its Ingenuity helicopter stationed on Mars. The images captured the Perseverance rover’s backshell,...
Read moreOnly around 9 percent of a dog’s behaviors are explained by its breed, according to a new study. Some behaviors like howling are more closely tied...
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