December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Over the past five years, the practice of allowing a physician to help severely ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in nine countries on three continents. Courts or legislatures, or both, are … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – While I believe we should extend the subsidies, which expire at the end of the month, to help families pay their insurance premiums, doing so wouldn’t fix the underlying problem: surging health care spending. That’s the … Read More
December 10, 2025
(NPR) – In fact, Tounkara had long known about trachoma. For about two decades, her job has been to distribute drugs in local communities to treat and prevent NTDS. That work, funded by USAID, has paid off. In 2023, Mali … Read More
December 10, 2025
(Wired) – All told, more than half of Parkinson’s research dollars in the past two decades have flowed toward genetics. But Parkinson’s rates in the US have doubled in the past 30 years. And studies suggest they will climb another … Read More
December 10, 2025
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 92, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 9, 2025
(ProPublica) – The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is the story of American health care. I began to focus on the relationship between Phoebe’s breakneck growth and the rates of chronic illnesses among Albany’s residents and wondered whether the … Read More
December 9, 2025
(New York Times) – Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. Outside exam rooms and clinics, many medical experts are debating … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – The combination of physical intimacy and oxytocin seems to make wounds heal faster. Remember when laughter was supposed to be the best medicine? Now a team of scientists has found that physical intimacy may speed up healing. It’s … Read More
December 5, 2025
(New York Times) – A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule on Friday, voting to end a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at … Read More
December 5, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 17, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 4, 2025
(Wired) – ARMR Sciences of New York is trialing a vaccine in the Netherlands to protect against fentanyl-related overdose and death. Just a tiny amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to stop a … Read More
December 4, 2025
(STAT News) – Even after a lot of studies, researchers don’t quite know why With a promise to reduce burden on overworked doctors, ambient scribes that automate the process of writing clinical notes have become the vanguard use case for … Read More
December 3, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Spinal cord injuries, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis have left tens of thousands of Americans permanently dependent on ventilators. The barriers these patients face offer a stark example of … Read More
December 2, 2025
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced plans to offer its employees a broader set of artificial intelligence tools to use in premarket reviews and for other purposes amid persistent concerns that the technology can behave … Read More
December 2, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 16, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 1, 2025
(New York Times) – A pacemaker can solve the problem; without one, it can be fatal. But he did not want a pacemaker. His doctors called the psychiatrists to come see him, as we do when people are making decisions … Read More
December 1, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Darragh’s family doesn’t have health insurance, leaving them on the hook for the full charges. Their income is a bit too high for them to qualify for Medicaid, the public health program that covers low-income … Read More
December 1, 2025
Research Ethics (vol. 21, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 28, 2025
(STAT News) – Ahead of a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting, assessing the evidence is paramount On Dec. 4, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to vote on whether to maintain the long-standing recommendation that all … Read More
November 28, 2025
(Politico) – Charities that help people pay for care say demand is way up. That’s before scheduled Medicaid and Obamacare cuts take effect. Financial assistance from the HealthWell Foundation, one of the largest charities in the country, is already 23 … Read More
November 28, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 11, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 26, 2025
(WLWT) – Another infant has died of whooping cough in Kentucky, becoming the third child to die of the illness in the last 12 months across the state. The first two deaths in the state represented the first whooping cough … Read More
November 26, 2025
(New York Times) – By mid-2024, the weight-loss drugs were prescribed for almost 2 percent of new mothers. Danish researchers were examining the use of medications during and after pregnancy when they noticed a clear trend: The number of women … Read More
November 26, 2025
(UPI) – Women who stop taking a GLP-1 weight loss/diabetes medication just prior to a pregnancy appear to be at higher odds for excess weight gain and complications while pregnant, new research shows. As the study authors pointed out, potential … Read More
November 26, 2025
(ProPublica) – Walker’s death is one of multiple cases ProPublica is investigating in which women with underlying health conditions died after they were unable to end their pregnancies. Walker had known that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she had … Read More
