September 26, 2025
(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
(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
(The New Yorker) – Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects. (Read More)
September 26, 2025
(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
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 25, 2025
(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
(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
(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
September 24, 2025
(The Optimist Daily) – In a brilliant advancement for emergency care, every stroke centre in England is now equipped with a life-saving artificial intelligence tool that could help nearly half of stroke patients avoid serious disability. The NHS recently rolled … Read More
September 24, 2025
(Washington Post) – Patti’s team is watching them closely, tracking which fish develop tumors, to try to find clues to one of the most unsettling medical puzzles of our time: Why are so many young people getting cancer? The trend … Read More
September 24, 2025
(CBS News) – Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM … Read More
September 24, 2025
(BBC) – One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and … Read More
September 23, 2025
(New York Times) – Gene therapies for rare diseases are frequently developed then discarded by drug companies because they can’t afford to produce the treatment for more patients. The problem is economics. The science is there to cure Mr. Atteberry’s … Read More
September 23, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – “Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Akido’s CTO. These patients—some of whom are on Medicaid—can access specialist appointments on short notice, a privilege typically … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Nature) – A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases. A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Bloomberg via MSN) – The Trump administration’s $100,000 fee for high-skilled visa applicants threatens to worsen a shortage of US doctors and make it harder for rural hospitals to operate, medical groups warned. The fee for H-1B visas “risks shutting … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – After an unthinkable diagnosis, a Journal editor learned how challenging it is to find treatment and support for a rare disease—and discovered reasons for hope. I had come across chordoma during my late night internet research … Read More
September 22, 2025
(ProPublica) – Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up. Over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated … Read More
September 22, 2025
(New York Times) – Men seek weight loss treatment far less often than women. Doctors are concerned. Men have similar rates of obesity as women, but they are less likely to seek medical care, making up only about 20 percent … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients. Artificial intelligence tools used by doctors risk leading to worse health outcomes for women and ethnic minorities, as a growing body of research shows … Read More
September 22, 2025
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 46, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 19, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
September 18, 2025
(Slate) – They had a mysterious, sometimes debilitating condition. At special “boot camps,” they were promised a cure. They experienced something much different. Sherry began using the term AMPS in the early 2000s while working at a children’s hospital in … Read More
September 17, 2025
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 92, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one … Read More
