February 12, 2025
(The Verge) – OpenAI is releasing a significantly expanded version of its Model Spec, a document that defines how its AI models should behave — and is making it free for anyone to use or modify. The new 63-page specification, up … Read More
February 12, 2025
(NBC News) – Actor Scarlett Johansson is urging lawmakers to regulate the use of artificial intelligence after her likeness was used without her consent in a fake viral video that appears to show a handful of celebrities protesting the rapper … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Cincinnati Enquirer) – An Indiana family says Cincinnati Children’s won’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status. Janeen Deal, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, said the hospital requires her daughter … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Military.com) – Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark reality. Logan Sowell’s suicide in July 2021 is one of at least seven in the past five years involving … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Associated Press) – Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, health authorities said Tuesday. The nine include the first victim, a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was … Read More
February 12, 2025
(The Hill) – A federal judge in Boston has ordered a temporary pause nationwide on plans by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to substantially reduce “indirect” research payments to universities, medical centers and other recipients. Judge Angel Kelley of … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Axios) – More than half of U.S. employees have chronic health conditions, and three-quarters of those workers have had to spend time managing their health on the job in the past year, a new Harvard poll found. Why it matters: As policymakers focus more on chronic … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Minnesota Star Tribune) – The trial involves a peptide developed by Minneapolis-based biotech startup OX2 Therapeutics. Children’s Minnesota is testing the safety of a new vaccine combination to combat one of the deadliest pediatric cancers, which could give new hope … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Ars Technica) – A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed. The worker experienced conjunctivitis (pink eye) … Read More
February 12, 2025
(The Walrus) – Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted I was born missing an ear. What followed was years of well-intentioned violence from a medical system bent on solving the “problem” of my body. … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New York Times) – At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can’t help noticing that thin seems to be very in. There are no studies documenting the percentage of doctors taking the drugs. But physicians “are a good litmus test … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New Yorker) – In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth–but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick. (Read More)
February 11, 2025
(Nature) – Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health. A sliver of human brain in a small vial starts to melt as … Read More
February 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Since Hims’s founding in 2017, the company has been pointing toward a very particular future, one in which the word patient is interchangeable with customer. The Hims brand has primed people to view both their everyday health and the natural-aging … Read More
February 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Trump. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Wired) – Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED. As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ravaged its way … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Axios) – A New York City academic medical center is drawing unexpected fire from doctors, patients and others in health care for buying a pricey Super Bowl ad touting its services. Why it matters: NYU Langone’s ad comes amid heightened scrutiny of nonprofit … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Axios) – The luster is starting to wear off GLP-1 weight-loss drugs including Wegovy and Ozempic as more clinicians warn patients about side effects and other potential risks stemming from their surging demand. Why it matters: Research showing the drugs not … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a multibillion-dollar global health initiative started under President George W. Bush, has brought hope to H.I.V.-positive mothers across Africa, and put the end of AIDS within reach. Through H.I.V./AIDS … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New Yorker) – In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New York Times) – At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini. World leaders, tech moguls and assorted hangers-on (including yours truly) are gathered in Paris … Read More
February 11, 2025
(STAT News) – Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block a major policy change by the National Institutes of Health that would substantially limit payments for research overhead to … Read More
February 11, 2025
(BBC) – Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked … Read More
February 10, 2025
(404 Media) – Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their … Read More
February 10, 2025
(Prospect) – In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of them The time between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma symptoms … Read More
