November 26, 2025
New Articles from BMC Medical Ethics Are Now Available
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
Clinical / Medical
November 25, 2025
California Is Tired of Letting People Die
(The Atlantic) – Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working? For the past 50 years, the city has tried to hide from this problem in much the same way Ashley hides from her own. The general consensus in America … Read More
November 25, 2025
A Battle with My Blood
(The New Yorker) – When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. On May 25, 2024, my daughter was born at 7:05 in the morning, ten minutes after … Read More
November 24, 2025
Ozempic Drug Fails to Quell Alzheimer’s in Novo Nordisk Trials
(NYTs) – The studies were a significant setback for the optimistic view that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs could help prevent a number of brain diseases. Hopes were high. In retrospect, perhaps too high. On Monday, Novo Nordisk announced that … Read More
November 24, 2025
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Humanities Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 46, no 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 21, 2025
Old Blood Pressure Drug May Hold the Key to Halt Aggressive Brain Cancer Growth
(Discover) – Learn how uncovering the biochemistry of a long-established blood pressure drug could make it eligible to treat brain tumors. A 70-year-old medical mystery around a critical blood-pressure medication, hydralazine, was finally solved. Not only do scientists now understand … Read More
November 21, 2025
These women were diagnosed with lung cancer. They weren’t eligible for screening.
(NBC News) – Researchers at Northwestern Medicine found that 65% of their lung cancer patients weren’t eligible for screening. They were more likely to be female, Asian American or nonsmokers. The current guidelines, from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, … Read More
November 21, 2025
Med Spa Nation
(Allure) – There are almost as many med spas as McDonald’s in the US, ready to serve you a smoother forehead, glowier skin, and fuller lips. Are you safe placing an order? In recent years, the med spa industry has … Read More
November 21, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 15, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 20, 2025
Founder of ADHD Startup Is Found Guilty of Conspiracy in Adderall Case
(WSJ) – Ruthia He, whose company was the subject of a WSJ investigation, was accused of orchestrating a scheme to profit from Adderall prescriptions A jury found Ruthia He guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances after her startup Done … Read More
November 19, 2025
New AI tool could cut wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%
(The Guardian) – Machine learning model predicts whether donor is likely to die within the timeframe that liver remains viable Recently, in cases where people need a liver transplant, access has been expanded by using donors who die after cardiac … Read More
November 19, 2025
Doctor, doctor, give me the shmooze
(Bloomberg) – Your next doctor’s visit may include a prescription to join a book club or go to a party. Doctors have for years dolled out healthy lifestyle orders: exercise regularly and keep a nutritious diet. They might ask basic … Read More
November 19, 2025
A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 10, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 18, 2025
Breast Cancer and Birth Control: A Huge New Study Shows How Science Can Be Distorted
(KFF Health News) – As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media age. The massive study, which was … Read More
November 18, 2025
Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One.
(WSJ) – Many doctors listed in insurer networks treat few or no Medicaid recipients, leaving patients with long waits; ‘Don’t get sick.’ Private Medicaid insurers dominate the government healthcare program that covers more than 70 million low-income and disabled Americans. … Read More
November 18, 2025
Profits and False Promises
(Virginia Quarterly Online) – But buried beneath this evergreen drama of illness and cure, the promise of miracle biotech breakthroughs and heroic survivorship, is the story of how American business interests helped to steer politicians away from stopping the cancer … Read More
November 17, 2025
Sudbury woman says ‘hallway health care’ led her father to apply for a medically-assisted death
(CBC) – Gratton— who had a variety of health problems, including kidney failure and heart disease— spent a night in the emergency room before being moved to a bed in a hallway on the seventh floor. “There were no lights, … Read More
November 17, 2025
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t
(New York Times) – Frustrated by the medical system, some patients are turning to chatbots for help. At what cost? Driven in part by frustrations with the medical system, more and more Americans are seeking advice from A.I. Last year, … Read More
November 17, 2025
A New Edition of Medico-Legal Journal Is Now Available
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 14, 2025
F.D.A. Sharply Limits Use of Drug Linked to Two Teen Deaths
(New York Times) – A gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy caused complications to the liver, prompting a review of its use for younger patients. The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it would narrow approval of a … Read More
November 13, 2025
‘Mono’ Virus May Also Cause Lupus
(Scientific American) – Early findings indicate that Epstein-Barr Virus may also cause the autoimmune disease lupus For years scientists have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—a type of herpesvirus that infects 94 percent of the global population by adulthood and … Read More
November 12, 2025
Deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs rose 17% in England in 2024
(The Guardian) – Data also shows an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases of antibiotic-resistant infections a week last year The number of deaths linked to superbugs that do not respond to frontline antibiotics increased by 17% in England … Read More
November 12, 2025
To protect my patients, Gov. Pritzker must veto the assisted suicide bill
(The Intelligencer) – As a palliative care physician, I strongly urge Gov. JB Pritzker to veto SB 1950, legislation to legalize assisted suicide in Illinois. I am opposed to this legislation for multiple reasons, but especially to protect my patients. … Read More
November 12, 2025
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 10, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 11, 2025
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
(STAT News) – Now in retirement, he calls funeral homes and surveys undertakers to document alleged vaccine harms. Over the next two days, I heard versions of the same arc again and again: loss reframed as mission, grievance redirected into … Read More
