A website that markets ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment has run afoul of the FDA. The agency issued a warning letter notifying the site that it is selling unapproved and misbranded products over the internet to consumers in the U.S. The warning letter, dated March 16, was posted by the FDA on Tuesday. According to […]
On Tuesday, Nvidia and Medtronic announced a collaboration focused on embedding AI into medical devices. Nvidia, an AI development powerhouse, and Medtronic, a world leader in medical technology, came together because they share a vision of creating a common AI platform for medical devices, said Kimberly Powell, vice president and general manager of healthcare at […]
Shani Bocian, co-founder and CEO of allergy telehealth company Allermi, is a “lifelong allergy sufferer.” “I’ve had allergies since I was a little baby … I’ve always had nasal issues and nasal congestion and eczema and asthma and the whole gamut,” Bocian said in an interview. But luckily for Shani, she was able to receive […]
Like many startup founders, Zack Gray’s reason for creating his company was personal. He founded Ophelia — a digital health startup that provides prescriptions to manage opioid addiction via telehealth — in 2019 after losing his girlfriend to an overdose from drugs meant to treat her accidental opioid addiction. For a number of reasons, she […]
The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish that has the yeast Candida auris in a Wuerzburg University laboratory in Wuerzburg, Germany on Jan. 23, 2018. There has been a recent rise of cases of seriously ill patients becoming infected with C. auris. […]
Getty Images By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Taking a progestogen-only ‘mini pill’ carries a small risk of breast cancer – similar to combined oral contraceptive pills, say researchers. The study, in PLoS Medicine journal, is one of the first big ones able to assess the odds for users of this type of birth control. […]
A gout drug that Swedish Orphan Biovitrim picked up in a $100 million deal has achieved the main goal in two Phase 3 studies, showing statistically significant reductions blood levels of the protein associated with the inflammatory condition. Based on those data, the company, which is more commonly referred to as Sobi, said it now […]
The state of healthcare in America may be best described as uncertain. Nearly every news report points to burnout as a significant factor causing healthcare professionals to leave their field. According to a 2021 study, 1 in 5 physicians and 2 in 5 nurses intended to leave their practice within two years. As a result, […]
The author and her father at a wedding in summer 2014, three months after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. “This is one of the last photos taken of just the two of us together,” she writes. Courtesy of Erin Hall I thought it may have been Mom’s cheesy potatoes. It was Easter, and in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill Monday that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic. The legislation, which passed both the House and Senate without dissent, directs the Office of the Director […]
Family Handouts A mental health unit criticised over the deaths of three teenagers was “chaotic and unsafe”, a report found. An independent inquiry found “excessive and inappropriate” restraint was used at Middlesbrough’s West Lane Hospital. The report also found self-harm was “facilitated” with staff told not to intervene unless it could be fatal, while “insufficiently […]
Nikki Fox/BBC By Nikki Fox & Neve Gordon-Farleigh BBC Look East A dentist who visits schools to check children’s dental health has said some six-year-olds “have never seen a toothbrush”. Stuart McCance is part of a voluntary project working with more than 800 pupils in Norfolk and Waveney. No dental practice in the area is […]
PA A new report suggests the introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland has led to fewer alcohol-related deaths compared to England. MUP started in 2018 and put a minimum charge of 50p on each unit of alcohol. The study, published in the Lancet, estimated that following the strategy 156 deaths a year were […]
Core training should form part of everyone’s exercise regime, because the core muscles provide the foundations for moving effectively and safely. In our guide to core exercises, trainer Jess King at F45 recommended including just five to 10 minutes of core work in your training a few times a week. This simple bodyweight workout from […]
By UK Insight team BBC News Seven British patients who travelled to Turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there, a BBC investigation into the trend has found. Others have returned home with serious health issues after having had gastric sleeve operations, during which more than 70% of the stomach is removed. The operations, […]