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Menopause clinics across the U.S. are hearing from women who are having trouble filling prescriptions for estrogen patches, a common hormone replacement therapy.“There’s just more demand for these medications, and I think it’s exponentially risen over the last three or four years,” said Dr. Rajita Patil, director of UCLA Health’s Comprehensive Menopause Program. “I don’t think that the supply chain was ready for that.”Hormone replacement therapy prescriptions for women 50-65 have increased 86% since 2021, according to Epic Research, which analyzes electronic health records nationwide.Jessica Halem uses twice-weekly estradiol patches. (Courtesy Jessica Halem) (Courtesy Jessica Halem)In November, the Food and…
An infant in New Mexico died of listeria, prompting the state’s health department to warn residents against consuming raw milk and other raw dairy products.The New Mexico Department of Health said in a news release that officials believe the newborn contracted listeria as a result of unpasteurized milk their mother drank during pregnancy, though an exact cause cannot be pinpointed.Listeria can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth or fatal infections in newborns, even if the mother was only mildly ill.The health department did not provide any other information about the child or its parents.Raw milk and unpasteurized dairy can pose a…
As Intel continues to try to turn itself around, its CEO promised that the company will start producing a new type of chip, one that has been made very popular by rival Nvidia. At the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces, and are used for gaming and tasks like training artificial intelligence models. TechCrunch reached out to Intel for more information. The project will be overseen by Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and…
By Deena BeasleyFeb 3 (Reuters) – Kaiser Permanente urged members on Tuesday to get laboratory tests done this week after unions representing pharmacy and lab workers filed to begin striking in Southern California on Monday and an ongoing strike by thousands of nurses and other health workers continued into a second week.The non-profit healthcare system said the United Food and Commercial Workers union notified it of a planned strike by about 3,000 members starting February 9. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, which represents more than 31,000 Kaiser employees, began its open-ended strike in California and…
Domestic partners are “increasingly likely” to use chemical and biological toxins to kill or harm their partners, a trend so alarming that the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement.The warning came in a January intelligence note, obtained by ABC News, that said people intent on harming or killing their domestic partners are turning to poisons like cyanide or ricin to do it, which are “often sourced from online black markets or made at home.”“The use of chemical and biological toxins in domestic violence cases poses a significant challenge for detection and prosecution due to the often…
ICE halts ‘all movement’ at Texas detention center after measles casesDHS confirmed two measles cases at the South Texas Family Residential Center, and have stopped all movement inside the facility,Southern California public health officials are warning residents to watch for measles symptoms after travelers infected with the contagious virus visited Disneyland, the Los Angeles International Airport and other places in the region in recent days.It comes as the virus, which had been declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, surged in cases last year, including outbreaks in Texas and an ongoing outbreak in South Carolina. In Northern California, officials…
Free groceries, courtesy of your favorite prediction market.That’s the stunt that both Kalshi and Polymarket are attempting to pull off in New York City, in an apparent nod to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to open city-run grocery stores.Kalshi’s offering arrived first, offering shoppers up to $50 worth of free groceries at Westside Market, a grocery store in Manhattan’s East Village on Tuesday. Business Insider attended the event and found a long line. The long line for Kalshi’s $50 grocery giveaway in NYC on Tuesday. Business Insider/Henry Chandonnet The promotion runs from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET at Westside Market…
COPENHAGEN, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk warned on Tuesday that profits and sales could drop as much as 13% this year, the first declines in years, in a new setback for the obesity drug pioneer as it struggles to claw back market share from rival Eli Lilly.Novo said its outlook was hit by lower realised prices, especially in the U.S., fierce competition and the expiry of patents on semaglutide — the active ingredient in its Wegovy and Ozempic drugs — in some markets outside the U.S.The Danish group expects adjusted operating profit and adjusted sales at constant…
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit the App Store a bit later. This latest update comes on the heels of the Xcode 26 release last year, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by those building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac,…
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit the App Store a bit later. This latest update comes on the heels of the Xcode 26 release last year, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by those building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac,…