October 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians. Desperate for cash, the Islamic republic is hoping to attract trans patients from around the world. For 40 years Iran has performed … Read More
October 10, 2025
(NBC News) – At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. “Expect more,” one expert said. A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out … Read More
October 10, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message. Over the … Read More
October 10, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 10, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 9, 2025
(NBC News) – Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling. It’s a practice called “downcoding.” Insurance companies — in Wagner’s case, Aetna — automatically downgrade the claims a … Read More
October 9, 2025
(The Verge) – The Amazon Pharmacy kiosks will enable patients to get their meds before leaving the doctor’s office. Amazon is adding vending machines stocked with prescription drugs to its One Medical clinics, allowing patients to pick up their medications … Read More
October 9, 2025
(New York Times) – As Americans take more gummies, pills and powders than ever, some physicians are trying to convince patients to be a bit more careful. A wide variety of gummies, pills and powders are categorized as supplements, including … Read More
October 9, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Company is seeking to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot Microsoft has a lofty goal: to become an artificial-intelligence chatbot powerhouse in its own right … Read More
October 8, 2025
Clinical Ethics (vol. 20, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 7, 2025
(New York Times) – Sam Terblanche was just 20 years old. Can a busy E.R. handle the hardest cases? Breen conceded that Sam’s death was an emergency provider’s “worst nightmare” and would likely prompt staff to “wonder and feel, like … Read More
October 7, 2025
(New York Times) – In the last decade, more than a dozen types of cancer have risen among people under 50. Scientists don’t have all of the answers, but research is starting to offer clues. For years, studies and news … Read More
October 6, 2025
(AP) – Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered … Read More
October 6, 2025
(National Post) – The international investigation by 48 media partners in 46 countries included Canada’s Investigative Journalism Bureau and was led by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the Times of London, and VG of Norway. Other partners … Read More
October 6, 2025
(ITV) – The family of a disabled man who died after not being given any food for nine days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital has told ITV News “we thought he was having nutrition… but as it turns … Read More
October 6, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 3, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – People increasingly turn to do-it-yourself healthcare amid long waits for medical appointments and a rise in self-care options Healthcare is fast becoming a do-it-yourself project for patients. With a shortage of doctors, long wait times for … Read More
October 3, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 2, 2025
(New York Magazine) – As much as half of all spinal fusions don’t alleviate pain — why do doctors perform so many? Since it entered its first boom in the early 1990s, the field of spine surgery, and specifically spinal-fusion … Read More
October 1, 2025
(Axios via MSN) – President Trump signed an order Tuesday directing his administration to invest $50 million in AI-driven pediatric cancer research. Why it matters: The move is part of a broader embrace of artificial intelligence across federal agencies but … Read More
October 1, 2025
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 28, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 30, 2025
(NBC News) – Of the eight fastest-rising cancers examined by researchers, only two showed increases in deaths. New cases of cancer have been rising among younger people, worrying patients and doctors about causes. A new study suggests increasing numbers of … Read More
September 30, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Cosmetic surgery chains across the country are attracting patients by promising “minimally invasive” operations to reshape their bodies or get rid of stubborn fat — even helping arrange outside financing for people who can’t pay up … Read More
September 29, 2025
(NPR) – “They were relatively young, thin and kind of undernourished looking,” says Boyne. Normally, that would point to Type 1 diabetes, where individuals are unable to make their own insulin and can become underweight. But these 13 patients never … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Medscape) – First came the college data: An MIT team reported in June that when students used ChatGPT to write essays, they incurred cognitive debt and “users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels” causing a “likely decrease in … Read More
September 29, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
