Sanofi pursues sale of painkiller after political controversy

Doliprane is France’s most widely used medicine to ease mild to moderate pain and fever. Sanofi confirmed on Monday plans to sell a controlling stake in its over-the-counter unit to…

Congress targets Chinese influence in health tech. It could come with tradeoffs

A lab technician works on a sequencer inside the quality control department at Complete Genomics in San Jose, Calif., Monday, July 22, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Nic Coury A California biotechnology…

The Nuremberg Code isn’t just for prosecuting Nazis—its principles have shaped medical ethics to this day

The dock of defendants seated during the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of…

Older Americans prepare themselves for a world altered by artificial intelligence

Barbara Winston uses a computer at her home in Northbrook, Ill., on Sunday, June 30, 2024, several days after taking an introduction to artificial intelligence class at a local senior…

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died at 56

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during a conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. Wojcicki has died, according to her husband, Dennis Troper in…

Smoking laptop in passenger’s bag prompts evacuation on American Airlines flight in San Francisco

An American Airlines Airbus A321 takes off from Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Nov. 29, 2018. A smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag prompted an evacuation…

Experts say US hospitals are prone to cyberattacks

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the wake of a debilitating cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Marvin Ruckle, a nurse at an Ascension hospital in Wichita,…

Virtual dissection fleshes out instruction in animal science anatomy lab

Sophomore Abi Ernat uses the interactive virtual anatomy system during at an animal science class. Credit: Iowa State University In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of…

Musk says patient moves cursor with brain implant

Elon Musk startup Neuralink developed robotic surgery equipment as part of its work to link brains to computers. Elon Musk says the first human patient with a brain implant from…

GSK buys asthma drug developer for up to $1.4 bn

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday agreed to buy Aiolos Bio for up to $1.4 billion, with focus on an asthma medication still at the testing stage.…