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Quartararo: Yamaha MotoGP team has “really short time” to convince me to stay

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The French rider made his debut with Yamaha at the Pet ronas SRT satellite squad in 2019 and won the title with the factory team in 2021, ending a seven-year drought for the brand. He re-signed with Yamaha for two more years part way through the 2022 season, but endured a tough 2023 and ended the campaign 10th in the standings with only three grand prix podiums to his credit. The rider market is set to move quickly for 2025, with most factory contracts up for renewal, so Quartararo says Yamaha doesn’t have long to convince him that it has a winning project. “Of course, as a rider, Yamaha gave me the opportunity to be in MotoGP ,” he said in an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com . “I gave them a title. The relationship is good. As a rider, I would love to come back with Yamaha, to come back to victories. “We have been to the top, to the lows, and I would like to come back to the top. But the thing is we have a really, really short time to do it...

Ozempic shortage continues, forcing greater regulation for patients

The national medicine regulator has introduced restrictions on the prescription of diabetes drug Ozempic to help manage an international shortage . Danish company Novo Nordisk advised the Therapeutic Goods Administration that supply of the drug through the rest of 2023 and 2024 will be limited, following increased demand of the low dose (0.25/0.5 mg) version recently. The shortage has been linked to a social media trend in which people use it as a weight loss tool. Catch the best deals and products hand-picked by our team at Best Picks >> The TGA has blamed the shortage on “off-label prescribing”, where the drug is being advised for uses other than those approved in Australia. “Making Ozempic involves a complex process to produce semaglutide using specialised equipment in a unique manufacturing setting,” the TGA advised on its website. “Novo Nordisk advised that very limited new supplies of Ozempic 0.25/0.5 mg would be available before the end of 2023 and there would be intermi...

France fines TikTok $5.4 million for online tracking shortcomings

 France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million ) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform's handling of online tracking known as "cookies", which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications. The CNIL found that for tiktok.com's users, it was not as easy to refuse online trackers as to accept them. The authority also found that internet users were not sufficiently informed about TikTok's use of the cookies. "These findings relate to past practices that we addressed last year, including making it easier to reject non-essential cookies and providing additional information about the purposes of certain cookies," a spokesperson for TikTok said. "The CNIL itself highlighted our cooperation during the course of the investigation an...