December 6, 2024
(Wired) – The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of them children. Deaths in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Associated Press) – Thirteen children under the age of 14 have died in central Mexico and authorities said Thursday they suspect contaminated IV feeding bags as the culprit. The federal Health Department ordered doctors across the country not to use … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A federal appeals court ruled Friday that TikTok can be banned in the U.S. over national security concerns, upholding a federal law requiring the popular social media app to shed its Chinese ownership to keep operating. … Read More
December 4, 2024
(NPR) – The Taliban’s supreme leader has reportedly ordered a ban on women attending nursing and midwivery institutes, closing a rare avenue they had to pursue an education beyond the sixth grade. Human Rights Watch says the ban was ordered … Read More
December 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against the AIDS virus. The twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing HIV infections in a study of women, and results published Wednesday show … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Undark) – In the future, humans may not be the only arbiters of who lives and dies in war, as weapons gain decision-making power. How autonomous and semi-autonomous technology will operate in the future is up in the air, and … Read More
November 27, 2024
(BBC) – For the first time in almost a decade MPs are going to vote on giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to have an assisted death. While it’s something that remains illegal in most countries, … Read More
November 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East. Nations of the Middle East, like Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, now suffer from particularly high rates … Read More
November 25, 2024
(The Guardian) – Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands … Read More
November 22, 2024
(Wired) – Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles promise. The race … Read More
November 21, 2024
(Wired) – Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked. China has long been a billion-plus-person experiment in total state surveillance, with virtually no … Read More
November 15, 2024
(NPR) – For years, Namazzi — who is also a lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences — has turned to a medication called artemisinin. The drug is derived from an ancient Chinese malaria treatment that was rediscovered several … Read More
November 14, 2024
(The Guardian) – Scientists say increase from 1990 to 2022 was largest in low- and middle-income countries and lack of treatment ‘concerning’ The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years to more than 800 million … Read More
November 12, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Established in 2017, the Deep Learning Indaba now has chapters in 47 of the 55 African nations and aims to boost AI development across the continent by providing training and resources to African AI researchers like … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Wired) – The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms. Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top priorities for new vaccine development. The WHO study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Reuters via MSN) – At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late on Wednesday. It is one of dozens of … Read More
November 8, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 7, 2024
(BBC) – Australia’s government says it will introduce “world-leading” legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the “harm” social … Read More
November 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Drone attacks have made any time outdoors in the city, even a cigarette break, potentially deadly. ‘Run for shelter.’ Russian drones are hunting civilians in Kherson, unleashing a new kind of terror on Ukraine’s largest front-line … Read More
November 6, 2024
(ABC News) – British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa. … Read More
November 5, 2024
(New York Times) – He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. Richard A. Cash, who as a young public-health researcher in South Asia in the … Read More
November 5, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 14, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 4, 2024
(NPR) – Marburg virus is notorious for its killing ability. In past outbreaks, as many as 9 out of 10 patients have died from the disease. And there are no approved vaccines or medications. That was the grim situation in … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Cast aside in favor of sons, some women say trauma of one-child policy shattered their sense of family Having scrapped the one-child policy, the Communist Party is now championing the term “family values” and pressuring women … Read More
