Published on: 2025-06-06 23:30:34
Generative artificial intelligence has found another home in the federal government. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the early launch of its very own generative AI that it hopes will improve efficiency. The FDA’s tool—nicknamed Elsa—is designed to assist employees with everything from scientific reviews to basic operations. Originally, the FDA planned to launch by June 30, so Elsa is well ahead of schedule and under budget, according to an FDA statement. It’s not cl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 09:30:34
Generative artificial intelligence has found another home in the federal government. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the early launch of its very own generative AI that it hopes will improve efficiency. The FDA’s tool—nicknamed Elsa—is designed to assist employees with everything from scientific reviews to basic operations. Originally, the FDA planned to launch by June 30, so Elsa is well ahead of schedule and under budget, according to an FDA statement. It’s not cl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 03:20:02
According to the FDA, 62.7 million over-the-counter packages of Zyrtec (cetirizine) and Xyzal (levocetirizine) were purchased in 2022. Since allergies are getting worse -- partly because of climate change creating longer, more intense pollen seasons -- these numbers have likely climbed in the last three years as more people purchase the antihistamines to cope with allergy symptoms like a stuffy nose, watery, red, itchy eyes and hives. For the millions of people who take these drugs, it's import
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 08:00:52
The FDA has launched the generative AI tool, Elsa, agency-wide to help its employees with everything from clinical reviews to investigations. Sure, we're living in a time of widespread disinformation and pushbacks against science, but why not rush things through with AI? Elsa — yes, weirdly like the snow queen from Frozen — completed a "very successful pilot program with FDA’s scientific reviewers." According to the FDA, the AI tool can help with reading, writing and summarizing everything from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 19:00:03
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 18:33:03
Tens of millions of over-the-counter and prescription packages of cetirizine (Zyrtec) and levocetirizine (Xyzal) are purchased every year for seasonal allergies, year-round allergies and chronic hives. However, the FDA just released a warning about a new potential side effect that can occur with both medications. If you stop taking Zyrtec or Xyzal after long-term use, you may experience rare but severe itching. Also called pruritus, this itching was experienced by patients who were taking these
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:10:37
Expert advisors for the Food and Drug Administration met Thursday to discuss which virus strain this year's updated COVID-19 vaccines should target. The advisors have been meeting around this time each year for such a strain selection, a routine decision in the process of updating the life-saving vaccines. But this year's meeting was awkward and even a little tense. Earlier this week, new FDA leaders under health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a sweeping new
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 18:10:03
Over-the-counter allergy medicines like cetirizine (Zyrtec) and levocetirizine (Xyzal) have become common drugs for many people in the US who suffer from seasonal symptoms like watery eyes and sneezing, but now the FDA indicates that both drugs have a new risk. The FDA recently published a warning about these antihistamines, saying that patients who suddenly stop taking these medicines after long-term use "may experience rare but severe itching." The itching, which is also known as pruritus, oc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 03:17:00
Do you take oral allergy medicines such as cetirizine (Zyrtec) or levocetirizine (Xyzal)? The FDA recently published a warning about these antihistamines, saying that patients who suddenly stop taking these medicines after long-term use "may experience rare but severe itching." The itching, which is also known as pruritus, occurred in patients who had been taking cetirizine and levocetirizine daily for a few months or even years. The FDA estimates that 62.7 million over-the-counter (OTC) packa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 11:53:47
The US Food and Drug Administration officially banned Red No. 3, a popular food coloring tied to thyroid cancer, in January of this year. Although the decision marks the beginning of the end for the additive, manufacturers still have time to phase it out of their products. On May 9, the FDA announced the approval of three natural food colors derived from natural sources: red algae, butterfly pea flower and calcium phosphate. Here's everything to know about the synthetic red dye and the newly app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 20:00:40
The Food and Drug Administration just announced that it will immediately start using AI across all of its centers, after completing a new generative AI pilot for scientific reviewers. Supposedly, the AI tool will speed up the FDA's drug review process by reducing the time its scientists have to spend doing tedious, repetitive tasks — though, given AI's track record of constantly hallucinating, these claims warrant plenty of scrutiny. "This is a game-changer technology that has enabled me to pe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 20:09:41
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 23:59:59
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 07:48:14
Oncologist Vinay Prasad, a divisive critic of COVID-19 responses, will be the next top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, agency Commissioner Martin Makary announced on social media Tuesday. Prasad will head the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), which is in charge of approving and regulating vaccines and other biologics products, such as gene therapies and blood products. "Dr. Prasad brings the kind of scientific rigor, independence, and transparenc
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Oncologist Vinay Prasad, a divisive critic of COVID-19 responses, will be the next top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, agency Commissioner Martin Makary announced on social media Tuesday. Prasad will head the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), which is in charge of approving and regulating vaccines and other biologics products, such as gene therapies and blood products. "Dr. Prasad brings the kind of scientific rigor, independence, and transparenc
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Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage affecting multiple services across North America, including the company's Teams collaboration platform. Since the incident started over two hours ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received thousands of user reports, with most affected users saying they're experiencing server connection and website problems when trying to access Microsoft 365 services and features. "We're investigating an issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 10:06:00
Seeing red? The US Food and Drug Administration officially banned Red dye No. 3, a popular food coloring tied to thyroid cancer. Although the decision marks the beginning of the end for the additive, manufacturers still have time to phase it out of their products -- but things are changing rapidly. Here's everything to know about foods that currently use the synthetic red dye. What is Red No. 3? Red No. 3 -- also known as FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or Red 3 -- is a synthetic dye that is made
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 12:09:32
Under President Trump, the Food and Drug Administration may no longer approve seasonal COVID-19 vaccines updated for the virus variants circulating that year, according to recent statements by Trump administration officials. Since the acute phase of the pandemic, vaccine manufacturers have been subtly updating COVID-19 shots annually to precisely target the molecular signatures of the newest virus variants, which continually evolve to evade our immune responses. So far, the FDA has treated thes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 00:25:09
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed he wants to “Make America Healthy Again,” but pretty much everything he’s done since taking over as head of the Department of Health and Human Services seems destined to make Americans sicker and less healthy. Reuters reports that, under Kennedy, the Food and Drug Administration has announced it will suspend a quality control program that tests milk and other dairy products. The outlet cites emails from the FDA’s Division of Dairy Safety to report that the shut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 16:05:13
Buyer beware. The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to watch out for shipments of counterfeit Ozempic that are currently flooding the market. The FDA and Ozempic manufacturer Novo Nordisk jointly issued an alert about the fakezempic last week. Several hundred units of the counterfeits are thought to have entered the drug supply chain. It’s not clear whether these units present a unique safety risk at this point, but regardless, the FDA is telling patients, pharmacies, and doctors n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 14:45:04
Image by Getty / Futurism Developments The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly opened and closed an investigation into an outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of Escherichia coli, better known as the deadly bacteria E. coli — and never revealed the investigation to the public. As NBC News reports, the 89 people sickened from the outbreak last November ranged in age from four to 90, and were spread across at least 15 states and killed at least one person. The FDA, subsequently, inv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-14 23:41:54
USB FLOPPY DISK STRIPED RAID UNDER OS X WHAT: The USB FDD raid was constructed using the following (1) One Bondi Blue iMAC 500 MhZ ( It was upgraded with a SONNET Harmoni G3 ) running OS X 10.2.4 (2) Five standard Y-E DATA 1X USB Floppy Disk Drives here they are..... (3) 5 random floppies laying around (4) Generic USB 4 port hub WHY: Why not? I had just set up my 2 firewire drives and thought, "Can I RAID USB Floppy DRIVES"? I happen to work for Y-E DATA which is one of the worlds largest m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 12:00:31
The Food and Drug Administration has suspended quality control tests for a vital food safety program and is planning to end virtually all routine food safety inspections, according to a pair of reports from Reuters and CBS News. On top of that, NBC News has learned the FDA refused to publicize a recent E. coli outbreak in lettuce that ripped through 15 states. And it’s all just the latest batch of bad news for essential government programs courtesy of President Donald Trump and his dipshit consp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-02 03:30:38
The Food and Drug Administration is reinstating telework for staff who review drugs, medical devices, and tobacco, according to reporting by the Associated Press. Review staff and supervisors are now allowed to resume telework at least two days a week, according to an internal email obtained by the AP. The move reverses a jarring return-to-office decree by the Trump administration, which it used to spur resignations from federal employees. Now, after a wave of such resignations and a brutal rou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 00:01:15
is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Drastic “reductions in force” are upending agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Thousands of people who work at the CDC were notified by em
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 16:15:09
Image by Futurism You know Hims, right? It's the next-gen telehealth startup famous for taking the eye contact out of erectile dysfunction treatment. Of course, bedroom pills aren't all Hims peddles. The Uberized men's health app also offers hair loss treatment, STD meds, mental health services and GLP-1 weight loss treatments — though that's now going away. Fueled by global demand and slow production, 2024 was the year of the GLP-1 shortage. Originally used to treat type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 ag
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Robinhood is getting closer to becoming a full-fledged financial service. On Wednesday, the company announced a wholly online banking platform that will offer checking and savings accounts to Robinhood Gold subscribers when it launches this fall. The platform, called Robinhood Banking, will let users access their accounts, as well as send and recei
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Seeing red? The US Food and Drug Administration officially banned Red Dye No. 3, a popular food coloring tied to thyroid cancer. Although the decision marks the beginning of the end for the additive, manufacturers still have a grace period of several years to phase it out of their products. Here's everything to know about foods that currently use the synthetic red dye. What is Red No. 3? Red No. 3 -- also known as FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or Red 3 -- is a synthetic dye that is made from pe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-03 07:18:39
MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second Jul 2020 Just wondering how many transactions or writes per second MySQL can handle? While it depends on many factors, fundamentally, about as many transactions as MySQL can commit to disk per second. A modern disk can do ~1000 fsyncs per second, but MySQL will group multiple writes with each fsync. An okay rule-of-thumb would be 5000-15,000 writes per second, depending on things like writes per transaction, number of indexes, hardware, size o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 05:44:17
fd [中文] [한국어] fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find . While it does not aim to support all of find 's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases. Installation • How to use • Troubleshooting Features Intuitive syntax: fd PATTERN instead of find -iname '*PATTERN*' . instead of . Regular expression (default) and glob-based patterns. Very fast due to parallelized direc
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