February 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious … Read More
February 21, 2025
(BBC) – An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers – born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness – gain “life-changing improvements” to their sight, according to doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Civil probe of diagnoses that triggered extra payments to the company’s Medicare Advantage plans adds to scrutiny of the healthcare giant The Justice Department has launched an investigation into UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices in recent … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … Read More
February 21, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 20, 2025
(New York Times) – Most medical professionals learned long ago not to expect reality in dramatizations of their work. From the early days of “General Hospital,” to “Grey’s Anatomy” and its various spinoffs, to more recent hits like “The Good … Read More
February 20, 2025
(NPR) – It’s a well-known statistic that men don’t live as long as women. Life expectancy for an American man is almost 76, versus 81 for a woman. But it’s not just older men dying sooner: those numbers are influenced by other deaths … Read More
February 20, 2025
(Nature) – The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month. World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone that … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Vatican officials have said Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating his recovery. The 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, doctors said he had developed a mix … Read More
February 19, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
February 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Shaw was among thousands of patients of Pain MD, a multistate pain management company that was once among the nation’s most prolific users of what it referred to as “tendon origin injections,” which normally inject a … Read More
February 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations … Read More
February 18, 2025
(CBS News) – For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, more people in the U.S. died of influenza than from COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 25, according to weekly figures published by the Centers for … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Wired) – Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? Many see illicit fentanyl, said to be about 50 times as powerful as … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Nature) – CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach. The girl was four years old when she arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to receive a highly experimental … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – If you need a prescription filled in the coming years, don’t be surprised if it flies in and lands in your backyard. Hospitals and doctors are increasingly experimenting with the use of drones to deliver medications, … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Deseret News) – Surgical sterilization is on the rise among young American women during a global fertility crisis. What are unintended consequences of the decision? While elective sterilization is a personal decision, it is not without societal costs, particularly in … Read More
February 17, 2025
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 92, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 14, 2025
(Associated Press) – Haiti’s main public hospital, which remains shuttered after multiple gang attacks, was set on fire Thursday in the latest blow to one the country’s largest health institutions. The hospital’s general director, Dr. Prince Sonson Pierre, confirmed the fire … Read More
February 14, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines about surprise medical bills, bird flu, the cost of health care, and more. Here are some … Read More
February 14, 2025
(New York Times) – It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans. In a case that could have major … Read More
February 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Patients who contest denials face a daunting process, but many are successful. ‘This appeal saved my life.’ Health insurers process more than five billion payment claims annually, federal figures show. About 850 million are denied, according … Read More
February 13, 2025
(Comment) – Medical students enter the anatomy lab dreaming about “the art of medicine” but graduate residency bewildered because they can’t make sense of themselves as technicians in a profession that once claimed to be a kind of art. As … Read More
