Published on: 2025-06-03 17:55:42
The New York Times published a new report last Friday that claimed Elon Musk has been using illicit drugs, which led to speculation about why he looked so spaced out during his “farewell” press conference at the Oval Office. But the billionaire spent the weekend denying that he uses drugs, going so far as to insist the newspaper was “lying their ass off.” The denials started in a rather jokey way after a Musk fan account named Whole Mars Catalog tweeted, “Given Elon Musk’s business track record
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 08:45:38
The 12-year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road, the original crypto-enabled dark web mail-order-drug emporium — finally ended in January, when newly-minted second term president Donald Trump officially pardoned the bitcoin criminal. Now, Ulbricht is picking up where he left off, getting his first taste of a world he left behind in 2013 when a federal judge sentenced him to two counts of life in prison, plus 40 years without parole. In sum, Ulbricht's
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Two common anti-allergy medications can leave you feeling scratchier than ever. The Food and Drug Administration is warning that stopping long-term use of cetirizine and levocetirizine can, in rare cases, cause intense itchiness. The FDA issued its warning earlier this month. Over the past decade, the agency has received hundreds of reports of people experiencing severe—sometimes “debilitating”—itching after going off the medications. Though it appears to be a rare complication, the FDA is also
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In the wake of damning new drug allegations, Elon Musk showed up at his own farewell party from the White House sporting a black eye and an even stranger excuse for it. As the New York Times and other outlets report, the billionaire claimed during his Oval Office goodbye shindig that he'd gotten a visible shiner from his five-year-old son, who has the extraordinary name X Æ A-12 and is generally known as X. "I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, 'Go ahead, punch me in the face,'
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Image by Jim Watson / AFP via Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines Generally speaking, drug testing in the workplace is supposed to be conductd at random intervals — but according to insider sources, that's not the case for the sometimes-world's richest man. A New York Times exposé about Elon Musk's fear and loathing on the campaign trail found that the billionaire not only has been on boatloads of risky and illegal drugs during his turn into hard-right politics, but was also being tipped off about w
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Image by Armend Nimani / AFP via Getty / Futurism Developments It's been a tough year for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind the GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Competitors are nipping at its heels, cheaper knockoffs have been eating into its sales, and it just gave the boot to its former CEO. Now, hoping its worst days are behind it, Novo says it's offering customers a massive discount on Wegovy, the weight-loss variant of its flagship drug semaglutide. For your first mon
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Image by Janelle Rohner via YouTube Treatments A wellness influencer named Janelle Rohner has come under fire after revealing that she had lost a considerable amount of weight after taking a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) weight loss drug, a classification that includes blockbuster drug brands like Ozempic and Wegovy. In a video shared last month, Rohner admitted to using the drug after trying "it all — keto, macros, workouts, lifestyle shifts." "GLP-1s are not magic, they don’t change your
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A common class of antidepressant medications might be even more useful than we thought. Research out today suggests that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, can fend off cancer and boost the immune system’s defenses against it. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, led the study, published in Cell. In mice and other lab experiments, they found that SSRIs shrunk a variety of cancers, improved the immune system’s ability to kill cancer cells, and bolstered the ef
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Image by Getty / Futurism Treatments Scientists used CRISPR tech to create a custom-made drug targeted at helping a newborn baby fight a rare genetic disorder. According to an extraordinary new paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the drug worked — marking the first time that a patient was successfully healed with a bespoke gene-hacked medicine, and a possible watershed moment for the field of genetic medicine. The baby, named KJ Muldoon, was born at the Children's Hospital
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 08:03:01
This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of Spotify's policies and, likely, federal law. On Thursday, Business Insider (BI) reported that Spotify removed 200 podcasts advertising the sale of opioids and other drugs, but that wasn't the end of the scandal. Today, CNN revealed that it easily uncovered dozens more fake podcasts peddling drugs. Some of the podcasts may have raised a red flag for a human moderator—
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 18:00:00
A couple of years ago, a longevity lobbying group helped develop a bill that expanded on the state’s existing Right to Try law, which allowed seriously ill people to apply for access to experimental drugs (that is, drugs that have not been approved by drug regulators). The expansion, which was passed in 2023, opened access for people who are not seriously ill. Over the last few months, the group has been pushing further—for a new bill that sets out exactly how clinics can sell experimental, unp
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Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby with a deadly metabolic condition. The rapid-fire attempt to rewrite the child’s DNA marks the first time gene editing has been tailored to treat a single individual. The baby who was treated, Kyle “KJ” Muldoon Jr., suffers from a rare metabolic condition caused by a particularly unusual gene misspelling. Researchers say their attempt to correct the error demonstrates the high l
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The news: A bill that allows clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the legislation, doctors can apply for a license to open an experimental treatment clinic and recommend and sell therapies not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to their patients. Why it matters: Once it’s signed by the governor, the law will be the most expansive in the country in allowing access to drugs that have not been fully tested. The bill allows for any drug produced in t
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Montana is set to become a proving ground for experimental medical treatments, thanks to a newly passed bill. The bill, signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte this week, will permit clinics and doctors to sell and provide nearly any experimental drug to potential patients, so long as it has undergone at least one Phase I clinical trial. Advocates argue that the law will allow Montana to be a hub for medical tourism, especially for potentially life-extending medicine, while some bioethicists
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The bill allows for any drug produced in the state to be sold in it, providing it has been through phase I clinical trials—the initial, generally small, first-in-human studies that are designed to check that a new treatment is not harmful. These trials do not determine if the drug is effective. The bill, which was passed by the state legislature on April 29 and is expected to be signed by Governor Greg Gianforte, essentially expands on existing Right to Try legislation in the state. But while t
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Michael Futter was desperate to lose weight. In February 2022, the 46-year-old from New Jersey had prediabetes and high blood pressure when his doctor asked if he had considered trying a GLP-1 medication. She prescribed him Wegovy, the blockbuster anti-obesity drug made by Novo Nordisk. At the time, Futter’s health insurance plan covered the drug, which costs $1,350 a month. He was only on the hook for a $25 copay. But when he changed jobs, none of the plans offered by his new employer covered
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"We're excited to become a clinical-stage biotech company; it's exciting from an AI drug discovery standpoint," says Absci founder and CEO Sean McClain. Absci Artificial intelligence has been working its way into the drug development process for years now, but with little to show so far in revamping the notoriously burdensome process. While drugs are being developed using AI in a variety of ways, no drugs developed completely by AI, from start to finish, have so far made it over the finish line
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On Monday, as Trump signed what appears to be a do-nothing executive order asking pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of drugs for Americans, he went on one of his trademark tangents to explain what led him to pursue the policy-less policy, telling the crowd about an unnamed, overweight titan of industry who apparently has a direct line to the President. “I’ll tell you a story. A friend of mine—he’s a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would’ve heard of him. Highly neuro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 07:27:00
Drug companies were nervously awaiting President Donald Trump's announcement on pharmaceutical tariffs, but instead, he signed a "better than feared" executive order on Monday. According to The New York Times, Trump wants US drug companies to voluntarily reduce US prices. Despite having no real legal authority to enact this, the executive order did say that if drugmakers do not lower US prices, the Trump administration would consider imposing regulations or importing drugs from other countries.
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L ate last year, a new prisoner arrived at the Shawnee County Jail in Topeka, Kansas — a polite beanstalk of a man from the San Francisco Bay Area who stood out among the petty criminals who make up the majority of Shawnee’s inmate population. He spoke in a rapid whisper, practiced yoga, meditated in his cell and read difficult books on mathematics and physics. Along with his prison blues, he wore sandals with socks. A princely mane of silver hair fell almost to his shoulders. The man’s name wa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 13:10:25
Prescription drug costs in the United States have been out of control for ages, and it’s only getting worse. But after a weekend rant about the U.S.’s “embarrassing” drug prices, President Donald Trump signed an expansive executive order he claimed would slash drug prices nationwide by reviving a controversial policy from his first term. On Sunday, Trump announced his plans in a lengthy post on Truth Social, writing that the U.S.’s elevated prescription drug costs were “always very difficult to
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed. I had been dealing with pain for
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Ozempic and similar drugs aren’t just for weight loss, more and more research is finding. New data is the latest to show that GLP-1 medications help lower people’s alcohol consumption, too. Scientists in Ireland and Saudi Arabia conducted the study, which involved around 200 patients who were prescribed GLP-1 drugs to manage their obesity. They found that people not only lost weight on the drugs, they also tended to reduce their alcohol intake—by up to two-thirds for those who drank the most be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 09:09:41
In Brief OpenAI has met with officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the agency’s use of AI to speed up drug evaluations, Wired reported on Wednesday. According to the report, OpenAI and the FDA have discussed a project called cderGPT, which seems to be an AI tool for the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE). The CDE regulates over-the-counter and prescription drugs in the U.S. Associates from Elon Musk’s DOGE have reportedly been part of the talks as well. It’s not
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The Food and Drug Administration has been meeting with OpenAI to discuss the agency’s use of AI, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings. The meetings appear to be part of a broader effort at the FDA to use this technology to speed up the drug approval process. “Why does it take over 10 years for a new drug to come to market?” wrote FDA commissioner Marty Makary on X on Wednesday. “Why are we not modernized with AI and other things? We’ve just completed our first AI-assisted scienti
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Image by Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines Ozempic and other drugs like it have been threatening the established diet industry since they premiered — and it appears that Weight Watchers is now getting the hatchet. In a note to investors, the long-running weight loss company is taking the "strategic action" of filing for bankruptcy in hopes of consolidating its immense $1.15 billion dollars' worth of debt. The move comes nearly eighteen months after Oprah Winfrey, a Wei
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 21:25:27
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, isn’t without its risks. A recent study has found that tens of thousands of Americans have ended up in the emergency room from taking semaglutide over the past few years. Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led the research, published this month in Annals of Internal Medicine. Based on national surveillance data, the researchers estimate that semaglutide contributed to nearly 25,000 ER visits betw
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Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced promising clinical trial results this week for a daily pill to treat obesity and diabetes. Besides the good news of minimal side effects and impressive results, though, the pill has an extremely unfortunate quality: its name. The drug, which was first discovered by Chugai Pharmaceutical and licensed to Eli Lilly in 2018, is called "orforglipron," a word so perplexingly unpronounceable — "or fugly pron"? — that i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 09:00:02
The Trump administration pledged this week to substantially reduce the high prices Americans commonly pay for their prescription drugs. It’s a promise that will undoubtedly come up short. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order laying out the steps that the federal government, via the Department of Health and Human Services, is planning to take to lower drug prices. While some of the proposals are sound, others are unlikely to move the needle. Trump and GOP lawmakers are al
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 05:00:00
There, a research chemist named Ed Sisco and his team had developed methods for detecting trace amounts of drugs, explosives, and other dangerous materials—techniques that could protect law enforcement officials and others who had to collect these samples. Essentially, Sisco’s lab had fine-tuned a technology called DART (for “direct analysis in real time”) mass spectrometry—which the US Transportation Security Administration uses to test for explosives by swiping your hand—to enable the detectio
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