May 8, 2025
(NPR) – In the new book, Second Life: Having A Child In The Digital Age, Hess writes about how technology shapes every aspect of parenting — from our online identities to the pressures of sharing our lives in real-time. “I … Read More
May 8, 2025
(Discover) – Controlling your emotions could also relieve your pain. An experiment where chronic pain patients learned to turn down negative emotions through a combination of sessions with an online therapist with homework showed significant success easing physical suffering, according … Read More
May 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Across the country, doctors, nurses and social workers are increasingly concerned that people with serious medical conditions, including injuries, chronic illnesses and high-risk pregnancies, are forgoing medical care out of fear of being apprehended by immigration … Read More
May 8, 2025
(ABC News) – A new government study provides the most complete picture yet of early-onset cancers, finding that the largest increases are in breast, colorectal, kidney and uterine cancers. Scientists from the National Cancer Institute looked at data that included … Read More
May 8, 2025
(Associated Press) – Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become … Read More
May 8, 2025
(Reuters) – Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use to study the causes of autism spectrum disorder, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said … Read More
May 8, 2025
(Wired) – High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT. The Food and Drug Administration has been meeting with OpenAI to discuss the agency’s use of AI, … Read More
May 8, 2025
(NPR) – “I couldn’t help hear his voice in my head of what he would say,” Wales told NPR. That’s when the idea came to her: to use artificial intelligence to generate a video of how her late brother, Christopher … Read More
May 8, 2025
(Futurism) – “This is what puts money in all our pockets.” As early as 2017, Wynn-Williams writes, Facebook was exploring ways to expand its ad targeting abilities to thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds across Facebook and Instagram — a decidedly vulnerable group, often in … Read More
May 7, 2025
(New York Times) – Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, died on … Read More
May 7, 2025
(New York Times) – As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. In a study … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has chosen Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. The division oversees vaccines and biologic medicines, including … Read More
May 7, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Last November, Bradford G. Smith got a brain implant from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. The device, a set of thin wires attached to a computer about the thickness of a few quarters that sits in his … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Kolin Koltai, a researcher at the Netherlands-based investigative outlet Bellingcat, recently discovered that X users were using the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, to undress women in photos that they had uploaded to the platform. While the bot rejects … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Axios) – WeightWatchers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, saying it plans to slash debt and stay in business. Why it matters: The company has been grappling with sinking sales amid the surge of weight-loss drugs and changing health … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Wired) – Vulcan, a robot with tactile senses, is a step toward automating more of picking and stowing work done by humans inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have AI friends, an AI therapist and AI business agents. In Zuckerberg’s vision for a new digital future, artificial-intelligence friends outnumber human companions and chatbot experiences supplant therapists, ad agencies and … Read More
May 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – But artificial intelligence on its own will never deny a claim, assures the insurer’s chief digital and technology officer UnitedHealth Group said it now has a thousand artificial-intelligence applications in production, leaning into a technology that’s … Read More
May 6, 2025
(NPR) – President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as “gain-of-function” research. The research, which is also known as “dual-use” research, involves experimenting with viruses and … Read More
May 6, 2025
(CBS News) – The Food and Drug Administration’s top official overseeing drug and food safety inspections told staff on Monday he has decided to leave the agency, and multiple federal health officials told CBS News it comes amid frustration from … Read More
May 6, 2025
(Undark) – A study published in March in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances examined electronic medical records to compare approximately 93,000 cannabis users with roughly 4.5 million non-users. It found that relatively healthy individuals under 50 … Read More
May 6, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Eight states — New York, Maine, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington — have passed laws since 2022 to protect doctors who mail abortion pills out of state, and thereby block or “shield” them … Read More
May 6, 2025
(NPR) – More American adults with mental health needs have been getting talk therapy in recent years, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study also found that the number of people using only … Read More
May 6, 2025
(New York Times) – The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds. … Read More
May 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak, logging its first cases since 2011. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the … Read More
