June 17, 2025
(ProPublica) – Sun Pharma’s transgressions were so egregious that the Food and Drug Administration imposed one of the government’s harshest penalties: banning the factory from exporting drugs to the United States. But the agency, worried about medication shortages, immediately undercut … Read More
June 16, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington’s aims In some cases, Chinese AI developers have been able to substitute domestic chips for the American ones. Another workaround is to smuggle AI … Read More
June 13, 2025
(Undark) – Jennie Erin Smith’s “Valley of Forgetting” explores the genetics of early-onset dementia plaguing a mountain region. That cause — a hereditary genetic mutation known as E280A — is at the heart of science journalist Jennie Erin Smith’s deeply … Read More
June 11, 2025
(CBS Detroit via MSN) – A third Chinese national is accused of smuggling biological materials into the U.S. for work at a University of Michigan laboratory. Chengxuan Han, of the People’s Republic of China, is charged with smuggling goods into … Read More
June 11, 2025
(Rest of World) – At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications. Pharmacists in Brazil began testing the technology earlier this year. Its initial success suggests it could … Read More
June 10, 2025
(UNFPA) – Millions of people around the world are unable to have the number of children they want – whether they want more, fewer, or none at all. Recently, fertility declines are making headlines, with women all too often blamed … Read More
June 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, … Read More
June 10, 2025
(NBC News) – Leaders of an aid organization that has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the U.S. for heart surgery said President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from 19 countries will stall or cancel … Read More
June 3, 2025
(The Washington Post) – They buzz, they bite, and they cause some of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. Mosquitos are perhaps the planet’s most universally reviled animals. If we could zap them off the face of the Earth, should … Read More
May 30, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 18, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 29, 2025
(Axios) – China is now setting the pace in life sciences R&D, conducting more clinical trials than the U.S. and licensing new discoveries to American companies. The big picture: China has become a linchpin in global drug development, the result … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of … Read More
May 28, 2025
(BBC) – “When we arrived, the miscarriage had already started.” One of their twins was stillborn and the other died a few hours after birth. Mohamed says there were no incubators for premature babies available. “Everything was gone in a … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Forbes) – Remember COVID-19? That illness that’s killed around 350 people a week in the United States over the past month and continues to leave more and more people with long COVID? Remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 … Read More
May 27, 2025
(NPR) – Two years of war in Sudan has caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in one of Africa’s largest countries and left its health system in ruins. Before fighting broke out in April 2023, Khartoum had nearly 100 public and … Read More
May 23, 2025
(Associated Press) – For more than two months, Israel has banned all food, medicine and other goods from entering the territory that is home to some 2 million Palestinians, as it carries out waves of airstrikes and ground operations. Palestinians … Read More
May 20, 2025
(NPR) – Member states of the World Health Organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt the first ever pandemic agreement, a treaty aimed at preventing, preparing for and responding to any future pandemic. After three years of tough negotiations, no country voted … Read More
May 19, 2025
(BBC) – Sharing a dirty cell with a dozen others, constant sleep deprivation, cells with lights on 24-hours a day; poor hygiene and forced labour. These are some of what prisoners in Chinese jails are subjected to, according to Australian … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Science) – A forensic technology developed in India sifts brain recordings for clues to a suspect’s guilt or innocence. Many neuroscientists are skeptical, but it is catching on in other countries The man accused of the crime, Surjaram, denied everything … Read More
May 15, 2025
(New York Times) – After the shooting in the West Bank, doctors were able to save the baby, a boy, who was taken to a neonatal intensive care unit. The woman’s baby, a boy, survived after being delivered in an … Read More
May 13, 2025
(NPR) – Squeezed by insurers and middlemen, independent pharmacists such as Jolley find themselves on the front lines of a tariff storm. Nearly everyone down the line — drugmakers, pharmacies, wholesalers and middlemen — opposes most tariffs. Slashing drug imports … Read More
May 12, 2025
(NPR) – The U.S. ambassador to Zambia — Michael Gonzales — began his Thursday press conference on a somber note. After 29 minutes, he was wiping away tears. His distress goes back to a discovery made in late 2021: Medications … Read More
May 8, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 15, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 7, 2025
(New York Times) – As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. In a study … Read More
May 5, 2025
(The Guardian) – A leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada. The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in … Read More
