November 10, 2025
(Lifehacker) – Hint: It’s not you. In discussing this topic with friends and family, most everyone I know assumed their health data enjoys robust federal protections under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Sadly, they’re wrong. HIPAA applies … Read More
November 10, 2025
(WSJ) – Startups funded by some of the most powerful billionaires in Silicon Valley are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve the chances for a high IQ and other preferred traits For … Read More
November 10, 2025
(El Pais) – A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological development disorders like autism, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder is highest These recent results are first steps towards understanding the … Read More
November 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Parenthood can seem an impossible dream for many, and online sperm donor groups offer a solution, but they can be a murky world There is a growing number of online sperm donor groups on social media. They … Read More
November 7, 2025
(NPR) – For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life’s work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a once-obscure biological molecule, … Read More
November 7, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Every day, physicians and therapists work to keep their patients safe. Medical rumors, misinformation, and an online web of disreputable sources aren’t making their jobs any easier. Unfortunately, this modern impulse to “do your own research” … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired Videos) – The ability to communicate with the dead. Immortality. Conquering death and breaking down the impenetrable barrier between the living and departed: it’s something humans have long strived for. Are advancements in technology bringing us closer to that … Read More
November 7, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – How do you end up with an A.I. lover? Some turned to them during hard times in their real-world marriages, while others were working through past trauma. Though critics have sounded alarms about dangers like … Read More
November 7, 2025
(CT) – Leah Libresco Sargeant’s doggedly pro-life feminist manifesto argues that dependence is inevitable. The normal condition for humans is dependence—we start and finish there, and by gradations we depend on others throughout our lives. A system presupposing independence has … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired) – TB is the world’s top infectious disease killer — with 3,500 people dying of it each day for an annual total of more than 1.2 million deaths. And the numbers are going up. One of the hurdles in … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Wired) – New diagnostic kits aim to revolutionize early screening of the disease, potentially allowing patients to receive treatments—such as monoclonal antibodies—sooner. Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis of … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – If you ask an LLM to explain its own reasoning process, it may well simply confabulate a plausible-sounding explanation for its actions based on text found in its training data. To get around this problem, Anthropic is … Read More
November 5, 2025
(New York Times) – The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. Letters to the editor from writers using chatbots are flooding … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Undark) – Some experts believe CKD is the first chronic illness directly linked to climate change. Prevention may be possible. Ignacio, who is undocumented and asked that his last name not be used, was diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney disease … Read More
November 5, 2025
(STAT News) – The meeting comes amid mounting negative reports about conversational artificial intelligence tools A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will meet Thursday to explore a topic that’s been taboo during the Trump administration: Regulating artificial intelligence. The … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Based on early clinical trial results, the Food and Drug Administration in October awarded the drug’s sponsor, biotech company Revolution Medicines, a new and unconventional accelerated review designed to get promising drugs to patients faster … Read More
November 5, 2025
(KFF Health News) – When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That’s standard practice, public health and infectious disease experts told … Read More
November 5, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The decline in drinking coincides with a decline in social activity more broadly. A variety of causes have been blamed for this trend toward isolation, phones chief among them. Maybe the phone theory is correct, and maybe … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Wired) – By combining LED technology and nanomaterials, researchers have created a therapy that eliminates cancer cells using localized heat without damaging healthy tissue. In the fight against cancer, an important field of research is the search for safe alternatives … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – Nitazenes, a class of synthetic drugs 40 times more potent than fentanyl, are steadily becoming more common on both sides of the Atlantic. US and European authorities are battling a new enemy in the war against opioids. Nitazenes … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth … Read More
November 4, 2025
(WSJ) – George Tidmarsh, who resigned Sunday, is accused in a lawsuit of seeking a bribe and defaming a drug A Food and Drug Administration official who resigned on Sunday was sued by a Canadian pharmaceutical company, which accused him … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Quanta Magazine) – If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself. … Read More
November 4, 2025
(AP via MSN) – There was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard Medical School that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said. A university police officer who responded to a fire alarm tried to stop … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – MaryBeth Lewis’s desire to be a new mom again, at 65 years old, led to a custody battle like no other. When MaryBeth arrived at the maternity ward, she found her surrogate in a recovery room, … Read More
