March 28, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Millions of Americans rely on physical and occupational therapists to regain strength and motor skills after operations, diseases, and injuries. But recoveries are routinely stymied by a widespread constraint in health insurance policies: rigid caps on … Read More
March 28, 2025
(ProPublica) – Texas Republicans have proposed changes to the state’s strict abortion ban they say would make clear that doctors can terminate pregnancies for serious medical risks without having to wait until a patient’s condition becomes life-threatening. The legislation comes … Read More
March 28, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 1_Suppl, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – When recipients signed up in two states at once, insurers often got paid by both; ‘it definitely is wasteful’ Health insurers got double-paid by the Medicaid system for the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Axios) – Medical device makers, hospitals and other key health industries are pressing to gain exemptions under the Trump administration’s new tariff regime with the next and most aggressive actions to date due to be unveiled on April 2. Why … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Axios) – AI-powered medical transcription tools are alleviating clinician burnout but not yet saving practices money or making care more efficient, according to a report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute. Why it matters: AI scribes that can securely transcribe … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product. When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs. The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped … Read More
March 26, 2025
(Science) – Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say From programs designed to detect irregular heartbeats in electrocardiograms to software that tracks eye movements to diagnose autism in children, artificial intelligence (AI) … Read More
March 26, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 24, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Measuring pain, one of the most fundamental tasks in medicine, remains one of the least precise, a shortcoming that helped fuel the nation’s opioid crisis. In an era of genomic medicine and artificial intelligence, doctors … Read More
March 24, 2025
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 25, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 21, 2025
(UPI) – A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., was set to connect two Parkinson’s patients to a new type of deep brain stimulation device, or “brain pacemaker,” developed by Medtronic Inc., on Friday in … Read More
March 21, 2025
(ProPublica) – The Montana hospital that fired Dr. Thomas C. Weiner turned over thousands of pages of documents, but members of the board say they were unaware of them. Since at least April 2021, the Montana medical licensing board has … Read More
March 21, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The goal of an autopsy is to discover the cause of a person’s death. Autopsy reports, especially those resulting from detailed investigations, often reveal health conditions—conditions that might have been kept private while the person was … Read More
March 21, 2025
(New York Times) – Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. By the next morning, Dr. Fajgenbaum had replied, suggesting an unconventional combination of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and steroids previously untested as a treatment … Read More
March 21, 2025
(The Telegraph) – Born with a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, Joy Milne has teamed up with Professor Barran to work on diagnosing early cases of the disease Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the day she ambushed an eminent … Read More
March 21, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 20, 2025
(Men’s Health) – Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic first swept across the planet, as many as 20 million Americans and at least 400 million people worldwide currently suffer from long COVID, a debilitating condition that still has no approved … Read More
March 20, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 19, 2025
(BBC) – Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth after their eight-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) unexpectedly became a nine-month enforced stay. Now, their recovery begins. “Space is by far the most extreme environment … Read More
March 19, 2025
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 46, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 18, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The tragedy of people suffering and dying alone is one of the enduring and unaddressed traumas of the pandemic. During early surges, we restricted visits to stop COVID from spreading. Yet even when the number of infections … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Times) – More than 250 GPs signed a letter saying their views had been misrepresented after the Royal College of GPs softened its stance on assisted dying Doctors have accused the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) of “grossly misrepresenting” … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Associated Press) – Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting in morning trading. The young man died of acute liver injury, a known side effect, … Read More
