August 6, 2024
(Our World Data) – This chart shows death rates across the first year of a baby’s life and how they have been reduced over time. The data spans 1921 to 2021 and comes from the Office for National Statistics in … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional … Read More
August 5, 2024
(The Guardian) – Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied … Read More
July 31, 2024
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The project, which will be led by Argentinian pharmaceutical … Read More
July 30, 2024
(ABC News) – Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say. … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – What if your entire economy was based on one product? TV commercials joke that America runs on Dunkin’, but for all intents and purposes, Denmark quite literally runs on Ozempic, a diabetes medication that is now widely used … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Associated Press) – Though a physician, Vázquez is better known in Puerto Rico as a rapper who uses the stage name PJ Sin Suela. The 34-year-old is trying to fulfill his passion for music while helping those in need — and raise … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Reuters) – At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy – and reveal how drug traffickers are … Read More
July 26, 2024
(NPR) – As an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, Ada Yee has lent a helping hand in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones: Syria, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti. Then she came to Darfur, Western … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Associated Press) – A North Korean military intelligence operative has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, U.S. military bases and international entities, stealing sensitive information and installing ransomware to fund more attacks, federal … Read More
July 26, 2024
(New York Times) – In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers. While the United States has had a head start on … Read More
July 25, 2024
(CNN) – After a handful of Australian water polo players tested positive for Covid-19 this week, questions have emerged around how the spread of the disease will be mitigated at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Five players on Australia’s … Read More
July 25, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 24, 2024
(Wired) – The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies. The northern hemisphere is entering yet another Covid wave—while much of the world acts as if the pandemic were over, … Read More
July 24, 2024
(ABC News) – Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a … Read More
July 23, 2024
(Wired) – As Russia has tested every form of attack on Ukraine’s civilians over the past decade, both digital and physical, it’s often used winter as one of its weapons—launching cyberattacks on electric utilities to trigger December blackouts and ruthlessly … Read More
July 19, 2024
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Health systems around the world cancelled procedures and resorted to using handwritten records in the wake of a global digital outage that roiled vital resources from air travel to emergency services. General practitioners in the UK’s … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Nature) – Community-based efforts have reduced the parasitic infection to a handful of cases in humans each year, but the emergence of infections in dogs and other animals threatens to derail progress. In 2006, a contested region of southern Sudan … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Axios) – As medical tourism becomes increasingly popular, Turkey has emerged as a destination of choice for balding American men seeking a cure to their receding hairlines. Why it matters: The boom underscores the extent to which social media and … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Newsweek) – China’s fertility rate, or births expected per woman during her lifetime, amid the rising cost of living in major cities and shifting cultural attitudes toward having children, is 1.0. This puts the country in the company of neighboring … Read More
July 18, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 20, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 17, 2024
(The Guardian) – When Yang Li* turned 30, she gave herself three years to decide whether or not she wanted to have children. But as the years ticked by, working a busy job in Beijing, Yang felt none the wiser … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the world to reverse such a … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Government support helps China’s generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down As American tech giants pull ahead in the artificial-intelligence race, China is turning to an old … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Axios) – Childhood immunization rates plateaued last year, leaving 2.7 million more kids worldwide lacking the protection they need compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Why it matters: Widening gaps in immunization coverage are … Read More
