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A Food and Drug Administration panel on Wednesday advocated for regulatory changes that would make testosterone medications more widely accessible, including removing their classification as controlled substances and changing product labels to expand eligibility.The 13-person panel — composed primarily of urologists and federal health officials — gave a resounding endorsement of testosterone replacement therapy, a treatment for men whose bodies don’t produce enough of the hormone. The experts said the therapy, known informally as TRT, has been underutilized due to outdated concerns about risks of prostate cancer, stroke and heart disease.“Testosterone is still regulated as if it were a dangerous,…
Talk about the rich getting richer.Alphabet, parent company of Google, has been one of the best-performing stocks of the year, up nearly 70%, and now has a market capitalization of $3.8 trillion.The company also happened to make what could turn out to be one of the most lucrative startup investments of all time, which could finally bear fruit next year.In 2015, Google invested around $900 million in SpaceX for a stake of around 7% in Elon Musk’s space company, which was then valued at $12 billion.Now SpaceX is reportedly planning to go public next year at a valuation of $1.5…
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.“We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, said during a news briefing Wednesday.Twenty-seven of those cases have been reported since Friday. “That is a significant increase…
Nvidia is allegedly testing software that can track the location of its AI chips as reports of its chips being smuggled into China are on the rise. Nvidia has built location verification technology that would allow it to track which country a chip is located in, Reuters originally reported, citing anonymous sources. This software tracks computing performance but the delay in communication between servers also offers a sense of a chip’s location. This software will be optional for customers to use and will be made available for Blackwell chips first, Reuters said. Multiple reports have surfaced in the last few…
REUTERS/Robert Galbraith 2025-12-10T22:05:27.292Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Oracle missed its quarterly revenue estimates, causing its shares to fall by more than 6% after hours. Despite the miss, Oracle still saw 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter ending November 30. Oracle has leaned into AI, betting big on massive data center expansion to win…
The fight between Paramount and Netflix over Warner Bros. Discovery is ultimately about who gets to control HBO and the Warner movie studio.But the way that fight gets settled is going to involve an unusual side quest: CNN, TNT, the Food Network, and a bunch of other cable networks WBD wants to get rid of. Specifically: What are all of those shrinking cable networks worth?Which leads us to a pretty weird place: Paramount CEO David Ellison, who wants to buy all of WBD — including its cable networks — is arguing that those cable networks aren’t worth very much at…
A new strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been detected in the United Kingdom, according to health officials.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in a Dec. 8 statement that a new recombinant mpox virus had been identified in England in a person who recently visited Asia. The new strain is a mix of clade (or type) II and clade I, the latter of which is associated with more severe illness.”This is not unexpected as both clades are circulating, but highlights the continued potential for mpox virus to evolve and the importance of continued genomic surveillance,” said the UKHSA statement.The…
Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said investigators “cannot rule out the possibility that contamination might have affected all ByHeart formula products” ever made.The outbreak now includes at least 51 infants in 19 states. The new case definition includes “any infant with botulism who was exposed to ByHeart formula at any time since the product’s release,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most recent illness was…
Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it’s giving users more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. That’s at least how the company is framing the launch of its new “Promoted Playlists,” a feature that will initially be available to Premium subscribers in New Zealand. The feature, which is currently available in English only, is still in beta and will evolve before rolling out to other markets, according to Spotify. The new tool allows users to describe what they want to hear in a personalized playlist that reflects the “full arc” of their tastes, according to the company.…
In a video posted to Instagram, EngineAI CEO Zhao Tongyang geared up in leg, stomach, and head pads. Workers taunted him, asking if he was nervous.The company’s T800 robot then appeared to kick Tongyang in the stomach, and he can be seen falling to the ground.”Too violent!” Tongyang said in a translation. “Too brutal!”The video featuring its CEO came after EngineAI posted a separate video of its humanoid robot doing kicks and flips. Online skeptics made accusations that the bot in the video was CGI, so the company’s next video showed the robot landing a kick to the CEO’s stomach.In…