November 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning of foreign tourists to … Read More
November 11, 2024
(New York Post) – Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back in the hospital and now plans to sue New York City over “ongoing medical negligence,” The Post has learned. Weinstein, 72, who was diagnosed with cancer last month, intends … Read More
November 4, 2024
(AfroTech via MSN) – A patent from technology company Apple shows that it is working on tech innovations for its AirPods product. Back in July 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an application filed by Apple in … Read More
September 19, 2024
(New York Times) – Three scientists were recognized by the Lasker Awards for their work on the GLP-1 hormone. Others were honored for work to stop H.I.V. and for immune system discoveries. The Lasker Awards, a prestigious set of prizes … Read More
August 30, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Some terms commonly used to describe observations seen on ultrasound during first-trimester pregnancies are outdated and should be replaced with more descriptive language, a multisociety panel of ob/gyns, radiologists, and emergency physicians determined. Terms like “heartbeat” or … Read More
August 23, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – EEG will be used for diagnosing disease, finding signs of consciousness, and potentially probing the inner recesses of our thoughts, memories, and dreams. (Read More)
July 31, 2024
(Chicago Tribune) – Assisted dying is accepted practice today, especially in Western Europe, Canada and the Northwest United States. It is gaining traction in the United Kingdom with former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak giving his support: “I’m not opposed … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Axios) – An AI-meets-biotech company launching Tuesday is releasing a tool to help scientists craft entirely new molecules in a process they say mirrors half a billion years of evolution. The big picture: Researchers are pushing hard to try to … Read More
April 8, 2024
(New York Times) – A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31 percent of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had PFAS levels considered harmful to human … Read More
March 20, 2024
(CBS News) – Democratic Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania opened her letter to colleagues with a statistic, and hoped it’d land with Republican members, too. Wild is seeking a rarity in this Congress, a bipartisan coalition on a politically charged … Read More
February 26, 2024
(The New Yorker) – Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a … Read More
February 21, 2024
(Washington Post) – A Washington Post review of federal and state statistics shows that medical examiners and coroners are increasingly blaming deaths on kratom — it was listed as contributing to or causing at least 4,100 deaths in 44 states … Read More
February 1, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The surge has been even more pronounced in Tennessee, where infection rates for the first two stages of syphilis grew 86% between 2017 and 2021. But this already difficult situation was complicated last spring by a … Read More
December 15, 2023
(Associated Press) – CBD use increased 50% in the past four years, according to a new survey published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. About 1 in 5 survey respondents said they used CBD in the past … Read More
November 16, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – For years, hospitals around the world have tried to protect prematurely born babies from life-threatening gut disease by giving them probiotics. Then last month, American hospitals stopped. The Food and Drug Administration had linked an infant’s … Read More
November 15, 2023
(Associated Press) – According to an internal WHO report from Dr. Gaya Gamhewage’s trip in March, one of the abused women she met gave birth to a baby with “a malformation that required special medical treatment,” meaning even more costs … Read More
November 13, 2023
(MedPage Today) – Generative artificial intelligence (AI) was able to quickly churn out large amounts of health disinformation on vaccines and vaping, Australian researchers found. In just 65 minutes and with basic prompting, ChatGPT produced 102 blog articles containing more … Read More
November 10, 2023
(NPR) – So what exactly do the laws of war say about hospitals? The Geneva Conventions of 1949 provide special protection, saying “civilian hospitals … may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be … Read More
November 10, 2023
(Quartz) – A startup from Switzerland wants to change the conventional methods of building artificial intelligence (AI) models: Instead of relying on digital chip processors, it believes the world needs biological ones that use much less energy. Founded in 2014 … Read More
November 9, 2023
(Los Angeles Times) – A 2002 state bill — which took nearly two decades to implement — made it possible for Mexican doctors such as Perusquia to work in California amid a chronic shortage of Spanish-speaking physicians. Latinos make up … Read More
November 6, 2023
November 6, 2023
(NBC News) – The high cost of surrogacy, an increasingly popular option for couples looking to expand their families biologically, has led some prospective same-sex parents to turn to crowdfunding. Kyle and Jack Maurelli, a gay couple living in New … Read More
November 6, 2023
(Reuters) – Global calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war have gone unheeded, preventing anything more than a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Israeli-besieged Gaza as shortages of food, fuel, drinking water and medicine worsen. Here is a … Read More
November 6, 2023
(The Atlantic) – We leave digital traces about our health everywhere we go: by completing forms like BetterHelp’s. By requesting a prescription refill online. By clicking on a link. By asking a search engine about dosages or directions to a … Read More
November 3, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Wu Zunyou, China’s top epidemiologist, never wanted the spotlight, believing that a successful public-health professional should be “invisible.” His last role, as the face of China’s draconian Covid-19 restrictions, was anything but. In China, the decisions … Read More
