December 9, 2025
(CBS News) – Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home after her parents say she developed an addiction to a popular AI chatbot platform called Character AI. Parents Cynthia Montoya and Wil Peralta, said … Read More
December 9, 2025
(New York Times) – With the end of school shutdowns, children’s mental health appointments fell sharply, though other factors may have contributed. A study of nearly 200,000 California schoolchildren found that their mental health had improved significantly after schools reopened … Read More
December 9, 2025
(New York Times) – Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. Outside exam rooms and clinics, many medical experts are debating … Read More
December 8, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Gaharwar and his colleagues created mini mitochondria factories by adding microscopic flower-shaped particles called nanoflowers to a lab dish containing stem cells. The nanoflowers, hundreds of which could fit in the width of a human … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance on them. Scientists are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to do their work. Many say the tools are saving them time … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – The combination of physical intimacy and oxytocin seems to make wounds heal faster. Remember when laughter was supposed to be the best medicine? Now a team of scientists has found that physical intimacy may speed up healing. It’s … Read More
December 8, 2025
(The Guardian) – British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions … Read More
December 5, 2025
(New York Times) – A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule on Friday, voting to end a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at … Read More
December 5, 2025
(Dutch News) – A majority of MPs is likely to support a draft proposal to lift the ban on the use of embryos specifically grown for scientific research to improve IVF treatment but much will depend on the Christian Democrats, … Read More
December 5, 2025
(Military.com) – House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana is allegedly working behind the scenes to get rid of a provision mandating health care coverage for assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), for all active-duty service members from the … Read More
December 5, 2025
(The Michigan Daily) – In the current issue of Medicine at Michigan, Michigan Medicine celebrates 175 alumni and faculty who have made the University of Michigan world-renowned as the “leaders and best.” The editors “looked for clinicians and researchers who … Read More
December 5, 2025
(Current Affairs) – Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. At San Francisco State University, the provost’s office formally notified … Read More
December 4, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Many people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate some of the most basic aspects of daily life. A colleague suggested that we might even call the most extreme users “LLeMmings”—yes, because they are always LLM-ing, but … Read More
December 4, 2025
(Wired) – ARMR Sciences of New York is trialing a vaccine in the Netherlands to protect against fentanyl-related overdose and death. Just a tiny amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to stop a … Read More
December 4, 2025
(Wired) – Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. Members of Congress considered 19 online safety … Read More
December 4, 2025
(CNN) – Vaccination is estimated to be more than 90% effective at preventing shingles in older adults, but recent research has shed light on some other potential benefits, too. Emerging research suggests that getting the vaccine to protect against shingles … Read More
December 4, 2025
(STAT News) – Even after a lot of studies, researchers don’t quite know why With a promise to reduce burden on overworked doctors, ambient scribes that automate the process of writing clinical notes have become the vanguard use case for … Read More
December 3, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Spinal cord injuries, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis have left tens of thousands of Americans permanently dependent on ventilators. The barriers these patients face offer a stark example of … Read More
December 3, 2025
(NPR) – If you have ever sworn off social media for a week or two because you sensed it was feeding your anxiety or dampening your mood, you may be on to something. A new study out last week in … Read More
December 3, 2025
(Wired) – The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half-hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics. “Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X … Read More
December 3, 2025
(Axios) – Preteens who own smartphones are likelier to have depression, obesity and insufficient sleep than their peers, according to a new University of Pennsylvania-led study. Why it matters: Roughly half of American kids now own a smartphone by the … Read More
December 2, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A large body of science has linked phthalates to a variety of serious health conditions, including premature birth and infertility. Studies have also tied the chemicals to neurodevelopment issues like ADHD. In April, a study … Read More
December 2, 2025
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced plans to offer its employees a broader set of artificial intelligence tools to use in premarket reviews and for other purposes amid persistent concerns that the technology can behave … Read More
December 2, 2025
(Nature) – Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins. Five years ago, in late November 2020, researchers at … Read More
