October 8, 2025
A New Edition of Clinical Ethics Is Now Available
Clinical Ethics (vol. 20, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Clinical / Medical
October 7, 2025
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.
(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
Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?
(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
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
(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
Bad Practice: How doctors jump borders to leave troubling pasts behind
(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
‘I don’t want to die’: Man with Down syndrome ‘starved to death’ in hospital
(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
A New Edition of Bioethics Is Now Available
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 3, 2025
Patients Are Diagnosing Themselves With Home Tests, Devices and Chatbots
(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
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 2, 2025
The Spinal Surgeries That Didn’t Need to Happen
(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
Trump orders $50M for AI in pediatric cancer research
(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
A New Edition of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Is Now Available
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 28, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 30, 2025
Cancer rates are rising in young people, but how worried should we be?
(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
Doctors With Troubled Pasts Are Performing Cosmetic Surgeries Tied to Crippling Pain and Injury
(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
Neglected form of diabetes with unusual symptoms finally gets its own name
(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
AI Eroding Cognitive Skills in Doctors: How Bad Is It?
(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
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 26, 2025
What happens if pregnant women stop taking Tylenol?
(Nature) – Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol will, scientists say. Researchers are concerned about what will happen should pregnant women follow US President Donald Trump’s advice to avoid the painkiller Tylenol — also called … Read More
September 26, 2025
Want to Know Your Future Breast-Cancer Risk? Just Ask AI
(Wall Street Journal) – Health-tech companies are designing models that identify patients at risk of developing cancer, and who might need more screening or preventive care Researchers and companies are designing artificial-intelligence models to predict a woman’s near-future breast-cancer risk, … Read More
September 26, 2025
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
(The New Yorker) – Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects. (Read More)
September 26, 2025
The Doctors Building a Public-Health Universe Outside the Government
(Wall Street Journal) – A growing contingent of doctors and policymakers say they have grown wary of federal health guidance since longtime vaccine skeptic Kennedy became Health and Human Services Secretary—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe outside the … Read More
September 26, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 25, 2025
‘Kissing bug’ disease is endemic in US, researchers say. See map of reported cases.
(USA Today via MSN) – A study is asking the Centers for Disease Control to declare Chagas disease, also known as “kissing bug” disease, an endemic after cases have been reported in eight different states. Since 2013, “kissing bugs” have … Read More
September 25, 2025
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
(New York Times) – Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began. A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. … Read More
September 25, 2025
Gaza City medics describe hospital overwhelmed by casualties from Israeli strikes
(BBC) – Doctors at one of Gaza City’s last functioning hospitals say they are overwhelmed with casualties from Israeli strikes and are having to carry out operations in filthy conditions with few or no anaesthetics. One Australian medic volunteering at … Read More
