December 2, 2025
(NPR) – Over the last decade, the women in this room have gone from feeling voiceless and powerless to being outright activists, banding together to do something that they might never have imagined. They are demanding that the Brazilian government … Read More
December 2, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 16, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 1, 2025
(BBC) – Fewer than one in 10 people who could benefit from obesity jabs like Wegovy are able to get them, warns the World Health Organization as it releases its first guidance on the drugs. With more than one billion … Read More
November 28, 2025
(Plough) – It’s easy to see why Rizana’s situation was formative in my support for abortion and my decision to work professionally for abortion access. But after graduating from New York University and landing a job at an abortion clinic … Read More
November 24, 2025
(The Economist) – Its fast-moving, cut-price drugmakers stand to make more money abroad than at home AFTER AMERICA, China is the world’s largest developer of new medicines and its companies ran about a third of the planet’s clinical trials last … Read More
November 24, 2025
(The Guardian) – UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the … Read More
November 24, 2025
(The National News Desk) – In our special report, Tainted Trust: Inside the Global Medicine Pipeline, we’ve exposed widespread risk on the shelves of pharmacies rooted in the production of drugs in India. There is a vulnerable population in the … Read More
November 13, 2025
(NPR) – A new drug, called GanLum, was more than 97% effective at treating malaria in clinical trials carried out across 12 African countries, researchers reported Wednesday at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Toronto. That’s as … Read More
November 12, 2025
(WSJ) – America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’ The escalating AI race is drawing comparisons with the Cold War, and the great scientific … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired) – TB is the world’s top infectious disease killer — with 3,500 people dying of it each day for an annual total of more than 1.2 million deaths. And the numbers are going up. One of the hurdles in … Read More
October 29, 2025
(New York Times) – The hospital had served as the last refuge for many starving or injured civilians in El Fasher, a major battleground in Darfur recently seized by the Rapid Support Forces. The World Health Organization said it had … Read More
October 27, 2025
(Wired) – I sound Korean—because I am Korean. Can AI make me sound American? There is a medium-is-the-message quality to accents. How you say something often reveals more—about your origin, class, education, interests—than what you say. In most societies, phonetic … Read More
October 24, 2025
(AP via MSN) – Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. It makes Uruguay the … Read More
October 24, 2025
(NPR) – As a result, Beirut has terrible air quality and is often submerged under a blanket of exhaust. And it’s not just in the big cities — vehicles belch pollution across the country. It’s one reason that cancer is … Read More
October 23, 2025
(ProPublica) – Hidden Drug Names: For decades, the FDA has blacked out the names of generic drugs on inspection reports for foreign factories that were found to have safety and quality violations. Patients in the Dark: The practice has prevented … Read More
October 22, 2025
(Science) – Prophylactic use of azithromycin saves vulnerable children’s lives, but could trigger antibiotic resistance In some of the most remote and impoverished areas of the world, as many as one in 10 children die before their fifth birthday. The … Read More
October 22, 2025
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 25, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 20, 2025
(Nature) – The United States and Europe have cut billions of dollars in health aid. Can anyone fill the gap? Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the … Read More
October 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China. For years, Democrats and Republicans have sounded the alarm about America’s dependence on China … Read More
October 17, 2025
(The Conversation) – As a physician and professor who studies the intersection of business and medicine, I believe increasing restrictions on H-1B visas for physicians may exacerbate the physician shortage. To grasp why that is, it’s important to understand how … Read More
October 17, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 11, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 15, 2025
(CT) – Study author praises staff members who “stay where their presence matters most.” A new study is shedding light on a rarely researched area: faith-based health care in low-resource settings. The study, published in JAMA Surgery, found dramatically lower … Read More
October 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050 Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number … Read More
October 14, 2025
(New York Times) – The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics. Across the world, the spread of dangerous infections that do not respond to antibiotics has been increasing … Read More
October 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians. Desperate for cash, the Islamic republic is hoping to attract trans patients from around the world. For 40 years Iran has performed … Read More
