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☆ Your next mammogram could be even more of a lifesaver
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Mia De Graaf | Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

As of September 10, mammogram reports should flag high breast density. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Higher breast density increases your risk of developing breast cancer. It also makes it harder for clinicians to spot cancer in a mammogram.

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☆ Apple's AirPods just challenged over-the-counter hearing aids
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewApple has the over-the-counter hearing aid market in its sights — and execs in the audiology space are likely sitting up straight after Monday's announcement by the tech giant. The AirPods Pro 2 — first launched in 2022 and refreshed in 2023 — will soon feature a "clinical-grade, over-the-counter Hearing Aid feature" via a software update slated for the fall, Apple said. Related storiesThe AirPods Pro 2 retail for $249, while over-the-counter hearing aids can range from $99 to $3,000, according to the National Council on Aging (NCOA). Apple's new hearing-focused features for the AirPods Pro 2 are multifaceted. AdvertisementThe Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2 can boost voices, media, and phone calls, Apple says.

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☆ Heavy metals found in tampons prompt FDA investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will examine the potential harm to women of heavy metals such as lead and arsenic found in tampons. The FDA’s action follows the July publication of a small pilot study that found arsenic and lead in organic and nonorganic tampons. The July study discovered only the presence of the metals and “did not test whether metals are released from tampons when used,” the FDA said in a statement Tuesday. “However, there is no reason for people to be afraid to use menstrual products at this time,” Pollack added. That advice also applies to anyone concerned about heavy metals or chemicals in their menstrual products, experts say.

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☆ Apple’s new AirPods are also hearing aids. Can they really save you thousands of dollars?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The company said the wireless headphones will double as clinical-grade over-the-counter hearing aids for those who need them. But over-the-counter hearing aids like these aren’t always the solution for hearing loss. Over-the-counter hearing aids, such as Apple’s offering, also are not a treatment for “severe or profound” hearing loss, according to the FDA. If it can also serve as a hearing aid, I think that’s really exciting.”Apple’s announcement was applauded by some hearing aid users on social media, as well. But many noted one clear advantage traditional hearing aids have over AirPods: Hearing aids have battery life measured in days, not hours.

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Learn moreApple officially announced the Apple Watch Series 10 and a design update to the Apple Watch Ultra 2 during its "Glowtime" event on September 9. AdvertisementThe Apple Watch Series 10 and the refreshed Apple Watch Ultra 2 are available to preorder now from Apple's website. AdvertisementApple Watch Series 10: New featuresThe Apple Watch Series 10 contains a range of upgrades. AppleThe Apple Watch Series 10 is available in a larger size than the Apple Watch Ultra 2, with 30% more screen area than the previous generation Series 9. AppleAll Apple Watch Series 10 models run on Apple's new S10 processor to support new features, like suppressing background noise during a phone call.

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The company just announced what's next for all three of its AirPod models: the AirPods, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods Max. Apple AirPods (4th Gen) Apple's latest generation of AirPods features a new design to optimize comfort for wearers of every kind. Check price at AppleApple AirPods with Active Noise Cancellation Apple's base AirPods now come with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) without the use of in-ear tips. Check price at AppleApple AirPods with Active Noise Cancellation Apple's base AirPods now come with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) without the use of in-ear tips. Check price at AppleApple AirPods 4th Generation and AirPods Max specs

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☆ Women will soon be notified about their breast density after a mammogram. Here’s what that means
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“The second reason that breast density is important is because having dense breast tissue raises a woman’s level of risk of developing breast cancer,” Feigin said. Breast cancer survivor JoAnn Pushkin, 64, has advocated for more than a decade that there be a national requirement for women to be notified of their breast density. Now I have lymphedema, and all because it was detected at that later stage,” said Pushkin, who has testified before the FDA about breast density and co-created the website DenseBreast-info.org, which features resources on breast density. The new FDA changes require facilities to provide patients with information about their breast density and include specific language in the mammogram result letter to explain how breast density can influence the accuracy of a mammogram. A study published in 2022 found that the breast cancer death rate dropped by 43% within three decades, from 1989 to 2020, translating to 460,000 fewer breast cancer deaths during that time.

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☆ E-cigarette use among youth in the US declined to the lowest level in a decade
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“We’re concerned with any tobacco product use among kids, and that includes nicotine pouches. And of those who use nicotine pouches, more than 1 in 5 say they use them every day. These flavors and targeted marketing are among the many factors that influence youth tobacco product use, CDC’s Kittner said at the briefing. “The continued decline in e-cigarette use among our nation’s youth is a monumental public health win,” King said in a statement. But we can’t rest on our laurels, as there’s still more work to do to further reduce youth e-cigarette use.”CNN’s Jacqueline Howard and Jen Christensen contributed to this report.

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☆ California bans red No. 40 and others from school food
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-30 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that bans the use of red dye No. Known as the California School Food Safety Act and introduced by Democratic Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel in February, Assembly Bill 2316 prohibits a school district, county superintendent of schools or charter school with grades kindergarten through 12th from offering foods or beverages containing red dye No. “California is once again leading the nation when it comes to protecting our kids from dangerous chemicals,” Gabriel said in a news release. “No industry is more committed to food safety than the consumer packaged goods industry. After the state banned brominated vegetable oil, used mostly in some sodas, as part of its California Food Safety Act in October 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration revoked the regulation for its use nine months later.

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☆ Olympic chocolate muffins brought to New York City for pop-up
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Victoria Feng | Victoria Feng Is An Intern On The Nbc News Technology Desk. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Three weeks later, she tracked down the French supplier, facilitated a shipment of muffins to the U.S. and dealt with the resulting challenges, all to bring the viral muffins to New York City for a pop-up event. In a thread on X, Zhang detailed how she worked with New York City cafe Isshiki Matcha to bring the viral muffins to hundreds of New Yorkers on Aug. 17. Isshiki Matcha, which has been open for four months, primarily sells premium matcha and matcha drinks. “I could eat this viral muffin that all these Olympic athletes can’t stop talking about.”Zhang described the muffin as light, moist and not too sweet. Zhang and Zheng are trying to import another batch of muffins to sell (and eat), but nothing has been finalized yet.

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☆ Do you need a glucose monitor? Wellness enthusiasts are using diabetes arm patches to take control of their blood sugar
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Jacobs started monitoring changes to her blood sugar with the help of a device called a continuous glucose monitor — an increasingly trendy wearable. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs for short, were FDA-approved in 1999 for people with diabetes to keep constant tabs on their blood sugar levels. Your blood sugar level measures how much glucose is in your blood, which comes from breaking down carbohydrates you eat for energy. After reading about how age-related hormone changes can affect blood sugar, she started tracking hers, and noticed a pattern. Research doesn't support the fear that rising blood sugar after a meal is cause for concern in otherwise healthy people.

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☆ Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in his conversation with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +34 min

Here is a fact check:CrimeTrump claimed, “Our crime rate’s going through the roof.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Facts First: Trump did express uncertainty about the number, but his “like 60 million or something” claim is false. They take ‘em out, and they bring them to the United States.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is baseless. He said, “With Ukraine, so we’re in for $250 billion and they’re in for about $71 billion.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. But Trump’s claim that the US has committed or provided far more aid than Europe is not true regardless.

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☆ FDA rejection of MDMA-assisted therapy rattles advocates but doesn’t spell end of psychedelics in medicine, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | Carma Hassan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The initial application from Lykos presented positive data from two late-stage clinical trials that used MDMA in combination with talk therapy to treat PTSD. The advisers said it was also difficult to parse how much the accompanying talk therapy — an area that the FDA does not regulate — contributed to outcomes. Advocates for the treatment, including some veterans groups, said they were “incredibly disappointed” by the FDA decision. Dozens of clinical trials involving psychedelics are in various stages, and additional scrutiny can help strengthen the findings and build confidence. Psychopharmacology did not allow the study authors to publish a correction with data that excluded findings from one study site, said Allison Feduccia, an author in all three retracted studies.

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The shots will be important, however, as the U.S. heads into the fall and winter, when cases usually rise again. Vaccine experts select the Covid strain in the spring for a vaccination campaign in the fall. Last fall, when CDC data showed a rise in hospitalizations, some doctors criticized the FDA for waiting too long to roll out the updated Covid vaccines. Has the FDA considered changing the fall vaccine rollout schedule, now early September? Link-Gelles highlighted the challenges in determining the optimal timing for administering the Covid vaccines.

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☆ Vance says Trump wouldn’t ban abortion pill days after Trump indicated he would be open to it
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Summer-Concepcion-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Summer Concepcion | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

“What the president has said very clearly is that abortion policy should be made by the states, right? Vance similarly said that people at the press conference had difficulty hearing and understanding the question. He reiterated that the former president stands by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow mifepristone to stay on the market. “Maybe he couldn’t hear that person super clearly, so I don’t want to put words in President Trump’s mouth,” Vance said. We want to give them more options to choose to have that baby, to make it easier to raise that baby.”

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If approved, it would have been the first new treatment for PTSD in more than two decades. Lykos Therapeutics had asked the FDA to approve the drug as part of a treatment regimen, given alongside talk therapy. Lykos Therapeutics had asked the FDA to approve the drug as part of a treatment regimen, given alongside talk therapy. Lykos added that the agency expressed concerns similar to those raised during the advisory committee meeting in June. Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics, said he doesn’t think the FDA decision will hinder the development of psychedelics for mental health disorders, including PTSD.

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☆ FDA approves nasal spray as first needle-free treatment for anaphylaxis
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

The Food and Drug Administration has approved ARS Pharmaceuticals’ nasal spray as the first needle-free emergency treatment for potentially fatal allergic reactions, the agency said on Friday. Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction that typically involves multiple parts of the body and is considered a medical emergency. Neffy, a single-dose nasal spray administered into one nostril, was approved for use in adult and pediatric patients who weigh at least 66 pounds. Neffy’s approval is based on four studies in 175 healthy adults without anaphylaxis that measured the epinephrine concentrations in the blood following administration of Neffy or approved epinephrine injection products. Last year, the FDA declined to approve the spray and requested additional testing, in a decision that went against the recommendation from its independent experts.

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Leavitt later clarified, "As President Trump said numerous times during the press conference, the questions being asked were difficult to hear. His position on mifepristone remains the same — the Supreme Court unanimously decided on the issue and the matter is settled." Also at Thursday's press conference, Trump was also asked how he planned to vote in Florida’s ballot initiative this fall to expand abortion access. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiffs did not have standing to win the case, preserving access nationwide to abortion pills. At the time, RNC spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez said in a statement: "The Supreme Court has unanimously decided 9-0.

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☆ Antiaging enthusiasts are getting $16,500 injections to make their knees young again
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

For now, here's what we know — and what we don't know — about stem-cell therapy for knees. Bryan Johnson flew to the Bahamas to get MSC stem cells injected into his knees, hips, and shoulders — for about $16,500 per joint. Plus, even Sampson warns that young donor stem cells should not be seen as a quick fix or a panacea. Done with proper medical oversight, some studies have found no adverse effects from stem-cell treatments for various conditions. Botched stem-cell treatments can cause infection, blindness, and excessive cell growth, which can trigger the formation of tumors.

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The Food and Drug Administration’s “hands-off approach” to food additives, including those found in ultraprocessed foods and energy drinks, may allow unsafe ingredients to enter the nation’s food supply, according to the authors of an editorial published Thursday. While food manufacturers can request an FDA review of new ingredients before they are added to products — and they sometimes do — they are not required to do so. From 1990 to 2010, an estimated 1,000 substances were labeled GRAS by manufacturers and were used without notifying the agency, Pomeranz said, citing earlier research. Since then, she added, there have likely been many more ingredients added to the nation’s food supply without the FDA’s oversight. “We have no idea how many substances are in the food supply based on this self-GRAS mechanism,” Pomeranz said.

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☆ Eli Lilly's blowout quarter should quiet investor concerns about the stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Eli Lilly on Thursday reported a home-run quarter fueled by sales of its blockbuster obesity and diabetes drugs, quieting any lingering investor concerns in the stock. Eli Lilly Why we own it: Eli Lilly's best-in-class drugs should enable growth above the industry average for many years to come. The report left little doubt that Eli Lilly's best days are ahead, driven by the growth of GLP-1s. It's really early" for Zepbound, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks said in a CNBC interview Thursday. But the good news is Eli Lilly's multibillion dollar investments to expand manufacturing capacity are paying off.

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☆ A man rapidly lost weight on a popular weight-loss drug. After 6 months, he was hospitalized with heart problems and confusion.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewSix months after he started taking a weight-loss drug, a 62-year-old man was hospitalized with heart palpitations, tremors, confusion, fever, and sweating. The man, from Colorado, had been prescribed the drug tirzepatide (the active ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound) to lose weight. Over time, the patient decreased his insulin dose as he lost weight, but didn't change his thyroid medication. This highlights the potential risks of losing weight too quickly, and the need for medical supervision while using the drugs, they said. AdvertisementOzempic and Wegovy, brand names for semaglutide showed weight loss of about 15% over a similar time period.

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☆ Eli Lilly reports earnings Thursday. Here's what Wall Street is watching
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Christina Cheddar Berk | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Novo Nordisk shocked investors on Wednesday when its latest results fell short of Wall Street's expectations. While Eli Lilly's stock remains up about 32% year to date, concerns about increasing competition in the category have resulted in a nearly 16% decline for Lilly shares over the past month. Eli Lilly is making similar attempts with Zepbound, but its launch is at an earlier stage than Wegovy. Second-quarter sales of Ozempic, Novo's diabetes treatment, rose 4% from the first quarter, while Wegovy revenue grew 24% quarter over quarter. Barclays analyst Emily Field told clients in a research note that she would be a buyer of Novo Nordisk shares on the weakness.

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☆ Logan Paul's Prime supplier is suing the energy drink company for $68 million, accusing it of cutting ties as demand cratered
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Refresco accuses Prime of failing to order the required amount during the first year of the contract, incurring a penalty payment. It's not the only lawsuit Prime is facing. In late April, a class-action lawsuit was filed accusing the brand of mislabeling the amount of caffeine in each drink. Prime filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. A similar lawsuit filed in 2023 was voluntarily dismissed.

Persons: —, Logan Paul —, Refresco, Paul, Ksi, It's, Sen, Chuck Schumer, they're, dink Organizations: Service, Business, Bloomberg, Refresco, Olympic, Paralympic, Games, USA Locations: Delaware, United States

☆ Inside the legal plans by foes of Donald Trump and Project 2025 to fight his second-term agenda
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

(Trump himself has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 but many of his policies and goals overlap.) “Honestly, the Trump administration was often sloppy in the way they rolled out these executive orders, including the first Muslim travel ban,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson told CNN, referring to the Trump ban on migrants from several Muslim-majority countries that was the target of one of nearly 100 lawsuits brought by the Evergreen State against the Trump administration. “This time around, Project 2025 provides a very thorough overview over the issues in which a leading conservative organization, like the Heritage Foundation, is likely to push the Trump administration,” Romero said. Part of the Project 2025 effort has been to collect and vet thousands of potential staffers to serve up and down the federal bureaucracy of a future Trump administration. The ACLU, meanwhile, has been rolling out a series of analyses of possible legal and legislative responses to potential Trump policies.

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