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
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