September 12, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Clinical / Medical
September 11, 2025
Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier
(AP) – A school-age child has died from a rare complication of measles contracted in infancy, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday. The child, who had been too young to be vaccinated when they were infected by the virus, … Read More
September 10, 2025
Governor Abbott signs bills to boost rural healthcare in Texas
(News 4 San Antonio) – Governor Greg Abbott addressed the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals fall conference in Austin, where he ceremonially signed House Bill 18 and House Bill 3000 into law. These bills aim to enhance healthcare … Read More
September 10, 2025
Unapproved tests and alternative treatments for Lyme disease are proliferating
(AP) – Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should … Read More
September 10, 2025
Another Man Gets a Pig Kidney as Transplant Trials Are Poised to Start
(Medpage Today) – A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplantopens in a new tab or window, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animal organs really might save human … Read More
September 10, 2025
New Articles from BMC Medical Ethics Are Now Available
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
September 9, 2025
The Doctor as Priest: Why anesthesiologists need more than reason to talk patients out of the fear of going under
(The New Atlantis) – Today, the number is around 60 percent. Even patients scheduled for major surgery at a hospital, and destined for what is called “planned admission,” often come to the operating room directly from home. With roughly half … Read More
September 9, 2025
The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
(WSJ) – There are codes for patients who try to change their sex—but no codes that speak to regret over the irreversible consequences that follow an attempted sex change or remission in the belief that the patient was born in … Read More
September 8, 2025
American Health Care Gets a Lot Wrong. Here’s What It Gets Right.
(New York Times) – Americans are right to demand more from their health care system. But if we tear down the parts that work — the research, prevention, regulation and education that have driven decades of progress — we won’t … Read More
September 8, 2025
A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 5, 2025
The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds
(New York Times) – Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products. The posts are part of a global surge of frauds hijacking the online personas of prominent medical … Read More
September 3, 2025
F.D.A. Official Overruled Scientists on Wide Access to Covid Shots
(New York Times) – Memos released in recent days by the Food and Drug Administration show that the agency’s vaccine chief overruled staff scientists who favored widespread access to Covid shots, setting off a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers, state … Read More
September 3, 2025
My mom and Dr. DeepSeek
(Rest of World) – In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI. My mother’s reliance on DeepSeek grew over the months. Even though the bot constantly reminded her to see real doctors, she began to … Read More
September 2, 2025
NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak linked to two city-run buildings, including Harlem Hospital
(AP) – A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, health officials announced Friday. The New York City Health … Read More
September 2, 2025
Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses
(New York Times) – Changes in screening recommendations over a decade ago may have inadvertently resulted in later diagnosis of the most common cancer in men, a new study has found. Prostate cancer diagnoses have been rising in recent years, … Read More
September 2, 2025
How rural hospitals are banding together to survive
(NPR) – The mobile MRI unit visits Southwest Healthcare Services, the hospital in Bowman, North Dakota, each Wednesday. Without it, the community’s 1,400 residents would have to drive 40 minutes to get to an MRI machine, an expensive piece of … Read More
September 2, 2025
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
(MIT Technology Review) – Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process. The large language model (LLM) boom of the past few years has had unexpected ramifications for the field … Read More
September 1, 2025
AI stethoscope could detect major heart conditions in seconds
(BBC) – Stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect three different heart conditions in seconds, researchers say. The original stethoscope, invented in 1816, allows doctors to listen to the internal sounds of a patient’s body. A British team … Read More
September 1, 2025
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 28, 2025
911 Centers Are So Understaffed, They’re Turning to AI to Answer Calls
(TechCrunch) – When he started to research how municipal non-emergency response call centers work, he discovered that they are often handled by the same people who are answering actual 911 emergencies. Aurelian pivoted to building an AI voice assistant that … Read More
August 28, 2025
Flesh-eating Bacteria Cases Are Rising. Climate Change Is to Blame, Say Scientists
(CNN) – That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Those black sores on his leg signified necrotizing fasciitis, which “affects the tissue under your skin,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. … Read More
August 27, 2025
The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits
(NPR) – The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday, but imposed new restrictions on who’s eligible to get receive them. The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for … Read More
August 27, 2025
When hospitals and insurers fight, patients get caught in the middle
(NPR) – A growing number of Americans find themselves in a similar pinch. In New York City, negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center missed a June 30 deadline, briefly leaving some patients in limbo until a deal … Read More
August 27, 2025
Pregnancy has become a nightmare for many women in Nigeria’s conflict-hit north
(ABC News) – The odds are stacked against pregnant women in Nigeria’s northeast like never before. The deadly Boko Haram militant group is making a resurgence. And hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States, once … Read More
August 27, 2025
Type 2 diabetes prevented with adherence to Mediterranean diet and exercise, study finds
(CNN) – A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that … Read More
