An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bloomberg hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bloomberg Eli Lilly, the drugmaker behind the blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound, is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling illegal copies of the drug made by compounding pharmacies. Compounded drugs aren’t generics. Rather, they are essentially copies that are allowed to be made by special pharmacies called compounding pharmacies during drug shortages. Tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Lilly’s Zepbound and Mounjaro for Type 2 diabetes, was in shortage for two years until Dec. 19, 2024. The U.S. Food and Drug…

  This blog was written by Donna Jackson, Senior Strategic Contract Negotiator at Cisco, global co-lead of Cisco’s Adult Caregivers Inclusive Community, and Founder and Executive Director of the Noble Strength Foundation and its Age To Age® program. Through a network of global volunteers, Age To Age® helps the elderly combat loneliness and isolation by connecting them to their loved ones—anywhere in the world—using the Age To Age® platform and Cisco’s Webex conferencing technology.   April is Global Volunteer Month. During this time of year, I’m reminded of the many Cisco volunteers who have given their time and talents to…

A layer of smog lingers above downtown Los Angeles in 2024. Millions of Americans are still breathing in unhealthy air, despite long-term progress toward cleaning up many sources of pollution, according to the 2025 State of the Air report. ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people’s lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new report finds. The report comes as the Trump administration is considering rolling back some…

Today, we’re exploring how Ethernet stacks up against InfiniBand in AI/ML environments, focusing on how Cisco Silicon One™ manages network congestion and enhances performance for AI/ML workloads. This post emphasizes the importance of benchmarking and KPI metrics in evaluating network solutions, showcasing the Cisco Zeus Cluster equipped with 128 NVIDIA® H100 GPUs and cutting-edge congestion management technologies like dynamic load balancing and packet spray. Networking standards to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads AI/ML training workloads generate repetitive micro-congestion, stressing network buffers significantly. The east-to-west GPU-to-GPU traffic during model training demands a low-latency, lossless network fabric. InfiniBand has been a…

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya (right), accompanied by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (center), speaks during a news conference Tuesday at the Health and Human Services Department on in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans’ private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a panel of experts about the plan this week. The NIH plans to…

Enhanced Data Protection With AI Guardrails With AI apps, the threat landscape has changed. Every week, we see customers are asking questions like: How do I mitigate leakage of sensitive data into LLMs? How do I even discover all the AI apps and chatbots users are accessing? We saw how the Las Vegas Cybertruck bomber used AI, so how do we avoid toxic content generation? How do we enable our developers to debug Python code in LLMs but not “C” code? AI has transformative potential and benefits. However, it also comes with risks that expand the threat landscape, particularly regarding…

A KFF poll found parents who believed a false claim about measles were more likely to skip or delay childhood vaccinations. wildpixel/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption wildpixel/Getty Images The U.S. has now reported more than 800 measles cases in at least two dozen states. The vast majority of cases — more than 600 — are in Texas. In the midst of the outbreak, a new poll shows how much misinformation people are seeing about measles. The good news is the vast majority of people still have confidence in the safety of the measles vaccine, says Liz Hamel, director of…

Type 1 diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic conditions in children in the U.S.,1 affecting around four out of every 1,000 youths.2 This autoimmune disease causes the body’s immune system to mistakenly destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. This leads to lifelong dependence on insulin injections, frequent blood sugar monitoring, and increased risk for severe complications.3 While genetics is involved in its development, disruption of the gut microbiome has also been found to play a role. Particularly, early exposure to antibiotics in children has been shown to alter the composition and function of gut bacteria during vital…

“¿Qué ondas?” That’s a familiar greeting in El Salvador, where I’m from, a land where surf and coffee blend harmoniously. When I was growing up there as a kid, my grandma asked me if I wanted to take summer classes. She gave me three choices: drawing, math, or English classes. At the time, I felt like I was good enough in math. I was more into music than drawing. So, she paid for my summer English classes. Little did I know that her humble pension and that decision would change my life forever. After that first summer English class, I…

Jonathan Knowles/Digital Vision/Getty Images The Trump administration announced its intention to phase out synthetic dyes used to enhance color in common foods like candy and cereals. At a press conference Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is making the move as a first step to improve the nation’s food supply and address chronic disease. “We are going to get rid of the dyes and then one by one, we’re going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in food that we can legally address,” he said. The Food and Drug Administration will…