April 18, 2025
(BBC) – Colombia has declared a nationwide health emergency after at least 34 people died of yellow fever, according to official figures. Yellow fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. It can be prevented by … Read More
April 16, 2025
(The Guardian) – NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the … Read More
April 15, 2025
(NPR) – People are falling ill because the U.S.-funded clinics where they got their HIV medications and care have suddenly been shuttered. The staff is gone. The electricity has been shut off. Some patients have already run out of their … Read More
April 11, 2025
(New York Times) – A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in … Read More
April 10, 2025
(WSJ) – Early last year, this quiet city in central China started offering serious cash incentives for couples to have more children, up to around $13,000 for a second child and $23,000 for a third. Births surged 17% for the … Read More
April 10, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The European Union said it would focus on building artificial-intelligence data and computing infrastructure and making it easier for companies to comply with regulation in a bid to catch up with the U.S. and China in … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – While it was known that some staff members devoted to H.I.V. prevention in other countries had been lost, The New York Times has learned that all such experts have now been terminated or are awaiting reassignment … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the last few days, and destroyed hundreds of homes. The Ndjili River running through the megacity of … Read More
March 31, 2025
(ABC News) – Aseku was preparing for yet another medical trip until late February when he joined others in the first trial of 3D telemedicine technology in Ghana powered through computer screens in the back of a van. Those behind … Read More
March 28, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 1_Suppl, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends. Just months ago, a boom in data center construction … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies committed widespread malpractices, including falsifying documents, to make them more … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs. The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped … Read More
March 25, 2025
(NPR) – Dr. Vivian Oputa, an aesthetic dermatologist, observes: “A lot of people don’t realize how dangerous this practice has been. We’ve had several cases of newborns being bleached by their parents because they don’t want the kids to be … Read More
March 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? In March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and … Read More
March 24, 2025
(NPR) – Investigating one of the deadliest moments of the war in Gaza. On Oct. 7, 2023, the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage, according to Israeli government figures. In response, Israel launched … Read More
March 20, 2025
(CBS News) – The United States this year fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, an annual survey published on International Day of Happiness. The 2025 report highlights the positive effects benevolence and social connections have on people’s … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – By 2050, there will be an estimated 25.2 million people living with Parkinson’s disease worldwide, a 112 percent increase from 2021, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ. The World Health Organization … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, reaching the highest … Read More
March 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% … Read More
March 14, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations in biotech, there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity. Perhaps no country was as deeply reshaped by the pandemic as China, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Reuters) – Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday. According to a joint report … Read More
March 13, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 6, 2025
(BBC) – Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people, such as legally binding stay-at-home orders applied across large swathes of the population. Those countries instead chose … Read More
