Europe Rejects Cinainu (Alopecia) & Kizfizo (Neuroblastoma)
Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended refusal of marketing authorizations for: Cinainu (allium/citrus/Paullinia/cacao), an herbal medicine intended to treat moderate to severe alopecia areata in children and adolescents Kizfizo (temozolomide) for the treatment of neuroblastoma in children older than 1 year Herbal Extracts Cinainu contains herbal...
Medical Groups Wary of RFK Jr. Nom to Lead HHS
Some public health and medical organizations are expressing concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), citing his vaccine skepticism and unorthodox medical views. Kennedy has falsely linked vaccines to autism and opposes community water fluoridation to prevent tooth…
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEHumanoids Summit: 11–12 December 2024…
What Bird Flu in Wastewater Means for California and Beyond
Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But understanding disease risk and exposure to humans isn’t so straightforward…
This ‘Human Computer’ Created a System for Measuring Vast Distances in Our Universe
Visual artist Anna Von Mertens looks to astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt and her vision of the universe for inspiration…
Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Every journalist has favorite topics. Regular Checkup readers might already know some of mine, which include the quest to delay or reverse human aging…
How to Speak With a Real Person at Amazon Customer Service
Here’s the easiest way to reach a real human at Amazon…SpaceX Starship: Everything you’ve ever wondered but were afraid to ask
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket has the potential to transform the commercial space economy, ensure America’s position as the global leaders in the space race, and put humans on Mars for the first time. But first it has to get to orbit. This is becoming much more likely as the Starship test program accelerates and the company…T-Mobile hack linked to Chinese breaches of telecom networks
This is the ninth known cyberattack to target T-Mobile in recent years, according to an ongoing count by TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…