Illumina has announced that CEO Francis deSouza has resigned from the biotech company. The decision comes just weeks after activist investor Carl Icahn failed to oust deSouza from his role in a heated proxy fight. The board of directors is now searching for a new CEO and considering both internal and external candidates, with Charles …
Oura, the innovator of the smart ring that allows users to track an array of biometric data, is launching new features focused on social sharing and sleep tracking. As the competition among technology companies to win consumers’ hearts and minds with wearable trackers intensifies, Oura introduces its new community-sharing feature, dubbed Circles, enabling users to …
David Rosario, a restaurant owner from New Jersey, remembers the late 1980s with mixed emotions as he achieved his goal of becoming a professional dancer in New York City in a world where many young male friends lost their lives to AIDS, which hit the gay community especially hard. Today, Rosario picks up medication at …
Eisai and Biogen’s drug Leqembi, aimed at treating Alzheimer’s, has received unanimous support from a panel of independent advisors to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indicating full approval is expected this summer. The advisors voted 6-0 in success of Eisai’s data, which showed a substantial clinical benefit for patients. While the FDA is not …
Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives pose for a photograph holding LGBTQ+ and Transgender Pride flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol ahead of a vote on the Equality Act, Feb. 25, 2021. Tom Brenner | Reuters A federal judge in Florida issued a preliminary injunction that will permit three transgender children …
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google’s cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the …