For Theranos, the Bad News Keeps Coming
So how much do Theranos employees not look forward to the morning delivery of The Wall Street Journal? On Sunday, the paper published another damaging report about the blood-testing company’s swift...
View ArticleNew Wearable Health-Monitoring Device Analyzes Your Sweat
Okay, who wouldn’t want their very own perspiration analysis system? Well, good news for civilization, my friends. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers at Stanford...
View ArticleWalgreens Suspends Theranos Service at Palo Alto Store
Probably not surprising, but … Early Theranos-adopter Walgreens is suspending the blood-testing company’s services at the drugstore chain’s outlet in Palo Alto, Calif. — which is Theranos’ hometown. It...
View ArticleTheranos Given Extension to Correct Serious Lab Deficiencies
This just in from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: “At the request of the laboratory’s director, Theranos was granted an extension until February 12 to submit their response to the CMS...
View ArticleAlleged DNA Discrimination at Palo Alto School Strikes Nerve, Raises More...
We’re seeing a lot of interest in Barry Starr’s post about the student who was forced to leave school for a time based on a genetic predisposition to cystic fibrosis. Most of the comments from our...
View ArticleWearables Have Some Privacy Issues, Researchers Warn
Whither wearables, wately? Well… Fitbit shares have taken a spanking and keep on tanking. Investors must have done some major panting today, weathering a double-digit dip due to diminished...
View ArticleHow CRISPR Made it Onto ‘The X-Files’
“The X-Files” revival has gotten some big ratings. Clearly a lot of fans (if not critics) are over the moon at its return, as this Twitter search on “X-Files Best Show Ever” will attest. As much as...
View ArticleWSJ: How Theranos Put Patients in ‘Immediate Jeopardy’
On Jan. 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid released a letter it sent to the blood-test startup Theranos, informing the company an inspection of its Newark, California lab had found it to be...
View ArticleNancy Reagan Bucked Conservatives When It Came to Stem Cells
Nancy Reagan is being buried today at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, next to her husband. Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1994, just five years after leaving...
View ArticleWho’s More Sympathetic When You’re Depressed, Siri or Google ?
When you’re depressed or even suicidal, can a smartphone assistant like Siri help you? Common sense may tell you no. And now there’s a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday to back...
View ArticleTheranos Says New Medical Advisers Will Help Publish Data
Saying Theranos needs to do some damage control is like suggesting Donald Trump may want to take a moment to collect his thoughts before opening his mouth to speak. After damning investigations into...
View ArticleFeds Seek Severe Sanctions Against Theranos
We may be reaching some kind of denouement in the Theranos saga. The Wall Street Journal digs the knife in a little deeper … Regulators Propose Banning Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes for at Least...
View ArticleElizabeth Holmes Says Theranos Will ‘Absolutely’ Survive (Video)
The Today show this morning broadcast an interview with Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes, the first time Holmes has spoken in public about the federal government’s scathing inspection report...
View ArticleElizabeth Holmes to Present Theranos Data at Scientific Conference
Here’s the press release from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. “For the first time, Holmes will present data at a scientific conference that describes Theranos’ technologies, including...
View ArticleShould You Be Allowed to Order Your Own Blood Tests?
One aspect of the multidimensional mess that is the Theranos story is the company’s leveraging of the Do-It-Yourself ethos to promote its product. Theranos provides consumers with a menu of over 200...
View ArticleTheranos Hit With Lawsuit
Update Thursday, May 26: And now, the lawsuits. A California law firm filed a potential class-action suit against Theranos on behalf of an unidentified Arizona man. The suit accuses the blood-testing...
View ArticleWalgreens Shutting Down Theranos Centers ‘Immediately,’ Ending Partnership
Walgreens has finally had enough of Theranos. In a press release Sunday, the drugstore chain announced “it will be terminating its relationship and closing operations at all 40 Theranos Wellness...
View ArticleTheranos Lab License Yanked, Elizabeth Holmes Suspended
The blood-testing company Theranos last night announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had revoked the company’s license to operate its Newark, California lab and barred Theranos...
View ArticleChildren’s Group Takes Pokémon Go Developers to Task as Accidents Mount
Last weekend, I took to the streets to play Pokémon Go with my daughter. She loved it! She’s seven. ‘Developers did not consider the game’s physical danger for children and others.’Children’s advocacy...
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When Yahoo! Was King: Scenes From the Bubble
This is an updated version of a post that KQED first published in April 2012. Time to replace that exclamation point with a period. The Yahoo! home page, circa 1996. After a torturously slow decline,...
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