December 31, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The global burden of Candida auris has been increasing since its discovery in 2009, a new review finds. A deadly, drug-resistant fungus is extending its tendrils around the world. Research out this month finds that the public health … Read More
December 30, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 22, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 29, 2025
(NYT) – International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients. More than 100,000 people in the United States are in need of … Read More
December 26, 2025
(WSJ) – Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S. Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control. … Read More
December 24, 2025
(TGC) – Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Yet as the world marvels at conversing with machines, my continent, Africa, is in a familiar place: Her people are exploited to fuel a technological revolution. … Read More
December 24, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them. India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism and political anxiety. At a time when liberal democracies are scrambling to … Read More
December 23, 2025
(ProPublica) – ProPublica decided to test several generic versions of three of the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States: the antidepressant bupropion XL, the generic for Wellbutrin XL; the heart medicine metoprolol succinate, the generic for Toprol XL; … Read More
December 23, 2025
(AP) – The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract to a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa that is raising ethical concerns. The unusual contract was awarded to scientists who have been … Read More
December 16, 2025
(Vox) – No one wants to make it. A new antiviral pill for dengue called mosnodenvir showed promising results in early phase 2 trials. In a study where volunteers were deliberately exposed to dengue, roughly half of those who received … Read More
December 15, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them Clerks working for family … Read More
December 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Eve was one of dozens of Thai women who traveled 4,000 miles — only to be trapped by the dark side of the global fertility industry. More often than not, the women didn’t want to enter … Read More
December 10, 2025
(NPR) – In fact, Tounkara had long known about trachoma. For about two decades, her job has been to distribute drugs in local communities to treat and prevent NTDS. That work, funded by USAID, has paid off. In 2023, Mali … Read More
December 10, 2025
(CNN) – A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday. And regulators, parents and teenagers around the globe are watching closely to see how it plays … Read More
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
