August 8, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Clinical / Medical
August 7, 2025
Florida woman arrested after allegedly posing as nurse and treating more than 4,000 patients with stolen license
(NBC News) – Autumn Bardisa, 29, allegedly helped provide care to 4,486 patients from June 2024 to this January despite “never holding a valid nursing license,” the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said. Autumn Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, was facing … Read More
August 7, 2025
It Was a Promising Addiction Treatment. Many Patients Never Got It.
(New York Times) – How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. In the years that followed, as the epidemic grew, … Read More
August 7, 2025
Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results
(Wired) – In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 percent of their body weight. An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of … Read More
August 6, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 5, 2025
More early stage colon cancers found in people aged 45-49 due to more screenings, research shows
(CBS News) – As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society. The research, published in two studies Monday in the Journal of … Read More
August 5, 2025
Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
(The Verge) – Google dubbed an error from its Med-Gemini model a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine. Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. … Read More
August 4, 2025
World-first gonorrhoea vaccine rollout begins in UK as infection rates soar
(BBC) – Gonorrhoea vaccines will be widely available from Monday in sexual health clinics across the UK, in a bid to tackle record-breaking levels of infections. The jabs will first be offered to those at highest risk – mostly gay … Read More
August 4, 2025
How surgeons build a new bladder for cancer patients like Deion Sanders
(NPR) – At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder. The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring. The procedure, … Read More
August 4, 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. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2025
‘Combat Cocktail’: How America Overmedicates Veterans
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD have been prescribed simultaneous doses of powerful psychiatric drugs. The practice, known as “polypharmacy,” can tranquilize patients to the point of numbness, cause weight gain and increase suicidal thoughts … Read More
August 1, 2025
The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
(Wired) – Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. After putting the children on antiretroviral drugs early … Read More
August 1, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 31, 2025
Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.
(New York Times) – But by artificially circulating blood and oxygen, the procedure can reanimate a lifeless heart. Some doctors and ethicists find the procedure objectionable because, in reversing the stoppage of the heart, it seems to nullify the reason … Read More
July 31, 2025
‘Ozempic face’ may be driving a cosmetic surgery boom
(CNN) – About two years ago, celebrity cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank noticed a new type of patient arriving at his New York practice. Amid an explosion in the number of Americans losing weight with drugs like Ozempic, he … Read More
July 31, 2025
Fast-track med schools aim to ease doctor shortage
(CBS News) – Diego Marroquin and Jason Denoncourt are students on the “Accelerated MD” track at UMass Chan Medical School — one of 33 programs that offers the option to compress four years of medical school into three for students … Read More
July 31, 2025
Tech leaders to partner with Trump admin on patient records
(Axios) – Leading tech and health companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, and OpenAI committed on Wednesday to working with the Trump administration to make electronic patient records more accessible across the health care system. Why it matters: Patient health information … Read More
July 30, 2025
Rare flu complication is rising in kids, doctors warn
(NBC News) – Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is deadly in more than a quarter of kids diagnosed with the inflammatory brain disease. Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a … Read More
July 30, 2025
A Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman Was Kept Alive in Georgia. It’s Unclear if State Law Required It.
(KFF Health News) – Nineteen states now ban abortion at or before 19 weeks of gestation; 13 of those have a near-total ban on all abortions with very limited exceptions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan research group that … Read More
July 29, 2025
Jamie Lee Curtis slams plastic surgery industry as ‘genocide of women’
(USA Today) – Jamie Lee Curtis is stirring controversy with her latest comments on plastic surgery. The “Freakier Friday” actress, 66, a longtime critic of cosmetic surgery, doubled down on her distaste in a new interview, likening it to genocide. … Read More
July 29, 2025
FTC probes trans care claims and risks
(Axios) – The Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched an inquiry into whether health providers are failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or are making false claims about its benefits. Why it matters: The action could help make … Read More
July 29, 2025
She’s trying to open a birth center near a maternity desert. It’s not easy
(NPR) – Chubb is a community organizer in a state with some of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the country. She says a birth center is badly needed here — Augusta, Ga., is surrounded by maternal … Read More
July 28, 2025
She shared her story of life on dialysis. Now she has a new kidney: “God found me the perfect match.”
(CBS News) – After 10 years on dialysis, and just days after the story of her long wait for a transplant was featured on “CBS Sunday Morning,” LaQuayia “LQ” Goldring, 35, has a new kidney. Before receiving her transplant, Goldring … Read More
July 28, 2025
Cosmetic Surgeries Led To Disfiguring Injuries, Patients Allege
(KFF Health News) – The chains sell an array of body-reshaping operations, such as “Mommy Makeovers” and liposuction, targeting customers willing to pay up to $20,000 out-of-pocket for a new figure, often on credit with steep interest rates from companies … Read More
July 25, 2025
Scientists are developing artificial blood that could save lives in emergencies
(NPR) – Doctor’s team makes synthetic blood from hemoglobin, the protein that nourishes the body with oxygen. The researchers extract hemoglobin from expired blood and enclose the protein in a bubble of fat, essentially creating artificial red blood cells. The … Read More
