February 17, 2026
(NPR) – Dr. Mehmet Oz is pitching a controversial fix for America’s rural health care crisis: artificial intelligence. “There’s no question about it — whether you want it or not — the best way to help some of these communities … Read More
February 17, 2026
(The Guardian) – Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice Google is putting people at risk of harm by downplaying safety warnings that its AI-generated medical advice may be wrong. When … Read More
February 16, 2026
(WSJ) – Two years, 11 doctors and one diagnosis later, I’ve learned a lot about how medicine can miss women’s symptoms I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a blood cancer for which a common symptom is a persistent … Read More
February 16, 2026
(NPR) – “It has to do with the fact that our [insurance] contracts don’t pay as well as we think they should,” Carlan said. “The cost of everything is going up.” Valley Medical Group is far from alone in this … Read More
February 13, 2026
(New York Times) – Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it. The sanitarium model of TB treatment — confining people in … Read More
February 13, 2026
(Ars Technica) – The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as “unethical,” because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in Guinea-Bissau, Africa. … Read More
February 12, 2026
(MedPage Today) – Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol. It’s very early stage research, tried in only a few dozen people so far. … Read More
February 11, 2026
(Ars Technica) – In a news release late Tuesday, Moderna said it was blindsided by the FDA’s refusal, which the FDA cited as being due to the design of the company’s Phase 3 trial for its mRNA flu vaccine, dubbed … Read More
February 11, 2026
(Minnesota Star Tribune) – The school is changing an elective course while still working with the Eden Prairie-based health care giant after students raised concerns. The University of Minnesota is revising a Medical School class financially supported by UnitedHealth Group … Read More
February 11, 2026
(NPR) – But amid low compliance and other struggles implementing the policy since it took effect in 2021, the available price data is sparse and often confusing. And instead of patients shopping for medical services, it’s mostly health systems and … Read More
February 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Divergent diagnostic criteria is raising concerns that some patients are being misdiagnosed and unnecessarily treated Divergent diagnoses for Alzheimer’s are the result of different criteria for diagnosing the disease. Some doctors worry the differing approaches can result in … Read More
February 10, 2026
(AFP via Barron’s) – Next time you’re considering consulting Dr ChatGPT, perhaps think again. Despite now being able to ace most medical licensing exams, artificial intelligence chatbots do not give humans better health advice than they can find using more … Read More
February 9, 2026
(New York Times) – Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about whether to insert a feeding tube, Dr. Jonathan Chen, … Read More
February 9, 2026
(Reuters) – Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries. At least 10 people were injured … Read More
February 9, 2026
(AP) – A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. was indicted by a grand … Read More
February 9, 2026
(NYT) – The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, has a pacemaker implanted in her … Read More
February 6, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – At least eight babies have been born to patients who underwent the procedure. This week I want to tell you about an experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies. Specifically, it’s helping people who have … Read More
February 6, 2026
(The Transmitter) – A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results. The largest study to date of leucovorin’s effectiveness for treating autism traits has been retracted because of data inconsistencies and statistical issues, according to … Read More
February 6, 2026
(CT) – A devastating cancer diagnosis wrecked a young couple. But after five years of uncertainty, a chatbot changed everything. (Read More)
February 5, 2026
(New York Times) – His wife paced the room as she talked, her tone pressured. She wanted to know what we were going to do next — surely, we would transfuse and restart antibiotics. I explained our care plans for … Read More
February 5, 2026
(New York Times) – The Federal Trade Commission announced on Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with Cigna’s Express Scripts, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, over its role in driving up insulin prices. Express Scripts will … Read More
February 4, 2026
(MedPage Today) – For the first time, a major U.S. physician group has recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths. On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) sent a position statement to its 11,000 members recommending against gender-related … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for … Read More
February 3, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – A hospital in Barcelona said on Monday it had performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, had offered her face for donation before undergoing an assisted dying procedure. The complex … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – For decades, hospitals have given babies a vitamin K injection to protect against bleeding. Now, the shot appears to be facing resistance. Vitamin K plays a crucial role in blood clotting but doesn’t pass to the … Read More
