August 17, 2026
(NYT) – Google, Apple, Samsung and upstarts like Oura are racing to integrate data from their wearable devices into the health care system. Since the release of the pioneering Fitbit Tracker in 2009, consumer interest has powered the category. But … Read More
August 14, 2026
(USA Today) – Fat transfers have long been a staple of plastic surgery, used in facial rejuvenations, breast augmentations and Brazilian butt lifts, or BBLs. Usually, they involve moving fat from one part of a patient’s body to another. However, … Read More
August 14, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome. It allowed them to create female clones … Read More
August 14, 2026
(CBS News) – A baby with a rare heart defect was born to a surrogate in Texas on Wednesday, one day after state Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in the case to ensure the child received lifesaving medical care after … Read More
August 14, 2026
(NYT) – The tests aren’t a guarantee that someone will develop dementia, but that hasn’t stopped people from getting them. Two blood biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s were approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year to help diagnose people … Read More
August 14, 2026
(ABC News) – A newborn with a severe heart defect is at the center of a legal battle between a California couple and a surrogate who flew from Alaska to Texas to give birth in a case that has drawn … Read More
August 14, 2026
(Wired) – One woman’s meth addiction was so bad, the only option left might have been brain surgery. Then a single session of noninvasive, focused ultrasound seemed to do what years of treatment could not. Linda turned on the TV … Read More
August 13, 2026
(WSJ) – ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini unwittingly respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions Ask a chatbot in China about Chinese politics, and it will either clam up or echo the official Communist Party line. New studies … Read More
August 13, 2026
(UPI) – The Social Security Administration announced Tuesday that it has added 14 health conditions to the compassionate allowances list. This list speeds up the process of applying for disability benefits for those with certain serious illnesses and medical conditions. … Read More
August 13, 2026
(Wired) – Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think. All brain-reading technologies work on the same basic principles: They first record the … Read More
August 13, 2026
(Nature) – Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide. Now, as controlled studies get under way around the world, … Read More
August 13, 2026
(CBS News) – One-quarter of employees who reported using AI at work say the tools shaved less than an hour off the time it would otherwise have taken them to complete a task, according to the Census data. A smaller … Read More
August 13, 2026
(NYT) – What is clear from all these places is that some people living outside are never going to seek care at a hospital, clinic or shelter, no matter how much they need it. Many people have untreated psychiatric conditions … Read More
August 13, 2026
(WSJ) – From marathon training to tracking office angst, health obsessives are linking their data to chatbots to build hyperpersonalized coaches Health obsessives often monitor workouts, step counts, sleep metrics, heart rates and nutrition data, cross-referencing the information with their … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Wired) – Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. I’m going to let you in on a secret. Every cell in your body has the potential to get smarter. … Read More
August 12, 2026
(NYT) – Traditionally, we have sorted diseases into categories, separating contagious from noncontagious illnesses; acute events like strokes from chronic conditions like asthma; diseases of cell proliferation, like cancer, from diseases of cell death, like Alzheimer’s; and those that affect … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Rest of World) – Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. On July 15, the artificial intelligence companion Su had spent more than a year prompting and talking to was forced … Read More
August 12, 2026
(The Guardian) – Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Nature) – US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for detailed vaccine policy to emerge from the White House President Trump signed a new executive order Monday calling for most children to receive fewer vaccines and made some of his most … Read More
August 11, 2026
(Fox News) – Vibrio vulnificus can cause necrotizing fasciitis and kills about one in five people infected, experts say A potentially deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed five people in Louisiana this year, a sharp rise from the state’s typical death … Read More
August 11, 2026
(NYT) – The drug targeted inflammation, and its shocking failure has experts questioning whether inflammation really does cause heart disease. Novo Nordisk stunned the cardiology world last week when it announced that a large study it was running on an … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking out of their enclosures, hacking other companies, lying to people. And now, for the first time, an AI model has created a new virus. A … Read More
August 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains. As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children … Read More
August 10, 2026
(NYT) – Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them. For Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatrician in Colorado, it was a teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system who got a flu vaccine … Read More
