Slaoui agreed to sell stock worth $12 million and resign from the board of Moderna, the developer of a leading potential vaccine. But Slaoui insisted on keeping his roughly $10 million stake in his former company, GlaxoSmithKline, another contender in the Operation Warp Speed vaccine race. “I won’t leave those shares because that’s my retirement,” he has said.

first multiple sclerosis, now transverse myelitis.

Too little too late, but maybe this will help for drug supplies years from now.

the math works out to pennies per victim.

bayer budgeted for this.

Using some 700, mostly Jewish women as subjects, the non-surgical sterilization method developed by Clauberg consisted of introducing into female reproductive organs a specially prepared chemical irritant that produced severe acute inflammation. Within several weeks, the fallopian tubes grew shut and were blocked, and x-rays were performed to check the results.

In June 1943, Clauberg wrote:
“The non-surgical method of sterilizing women that I have invented is now almost perfected… As for the questions that you have directed to me, sir Reichsführer, on the time necessary to sterilize a thousand women in this way, I can today answer them in the way that I had anticipated: if the research that I am carrying out continues to yield the sort of results that it has produced so far (and there is no reason to suppose that this shall not be the case), then I shall be able to report in the foreseeable future that one experienced physician, with an appropriately equipped office and the aid of ten auxiliary personnel, will be able to carry out in the course of a single day the sterilization of hundreds, or even 1,000 women.”

Promising research (controlled and uncontrolled) has found a potential cure for FIP, but Gilead put profits over patients and is focusing on Getting approval of chemically-similar remdesivir instead.

The FIP treatment has inspired an underground market for cat guardians, who spend thousands of dollars buying unverified vials from China.

6 months ago, the FDA started investigating tainted metformin when other countries discovered theirs tainted, and after the recall of many manufacturers of two other tainted medications.

They sent notices to 5 companies about NDMA levels being too high.

6 Months later as of this post, only 2 companies have publicly disclosed it.

I am 6 years old inside.

Candida is has become a major health threat that isnt responding to antifungals. We don’t have many antifungals to choose from either.

Author studies pharma advertisements for migraine treatments, and finds they are highly gendered and biased towards cis women. While the ads raise awareness of migraine disorder, they also create prejudice and barriers to treatment.