Health Canada has distributed enough of the antiviral Paxlovid to treat more than 700,000 people with COVID-19, yet the provinces have given only a fraction of that medication to patients.
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Edmonton in-vitro patient in 4-year battle to learn fate of unused embryo
A woman who underwent in-vitro fertilization at an Edmonton clinic has been unable to confirm the whereabouts of her leftover embryo — four years after she requested that it be destroyed.
MoviePass pulls ‘unused app location’ features from its iOS app
Two days after we started reporting on comments by MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe about his company tracking users after they leave the theater, there’s an update for its iOS app. According to the notes, it contains “Theater & Movie Search performance improvements. Removed unused app location capability.” The company hasn’t provided a firm denial about […]
LAPD's BMW i3 fleet sits unused, misused
According to a report from CBS Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department spent $ 10 million to go green with a fleet of BMW i3 electric cars. CBS‘s David Goldstein’s investigation finds, though, that many of those cars sit unused, while others are used for personal errands. CBS scoured department records, and found a […]
‘The Jungle Book 2’ Will Resurrect Unused Disney Ideas, Explore More Rudyard Kipling Stories [TCA 2018]
During /Film’s interview with screenwriter Justin Marks, creator of Starz’s new series Counterpart, we asked about his screenplay for the developing live-action Jungle Book sequel. The Jungle Book 2 was announced back in April of 2016, but we haven’t heard much on development since then. Jon Favreau is busy directing a new version of The […]
France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away unused food — and the world is taking notice
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard France is starting to reap the benefits of a recent law that forces supermarkets to make use of unused food, rather than tossing it away. The country earned top ranking in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index. Food waste is a huge, and expensive, global issue. France is way ahead of other countries, including the […]
Can Unused Medical Supplies Save the World? This Nurse Thinks So
Away from bustling downtown Portland, Maine, with its foodie hangouts and artisanal drinking holes, in a nondescript office park, sits a 15,000-square-foot warehouse stuffed to the gills with the rejects from area hospitals: unused medical supplies. I visited in the fall on a cloudy Sunday afternoon. Elizabeth McLellan, the founder of Partners for World Health, […]
MondoCon 2017: Unused and Abandoned Art For ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘La La Land’ and More
MondoCon is one of the best places on the planet to check out and purchase pop culture art. However, it is also a destination for those interested in pop culture art that never actually made it to the printer. At the annual Mondo Talk panel, the Mondo brain trust revealed posters and art for movies […]
Android’s new filters will help you purge unused apps
Use a smartphone for long enough and you’ll likely accrue a bunch of apps you don’t really use — think dead social networks or games you only ever tried once. How do you do that spring cleaning without sifting page by page through your app list? On Android, you now have some help. After some […]
