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
July 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The policy supercharged the country’s workforce: By caring for fewer children, young people could be more productive and put aside more money. For years, just as China was opening its economy, the share of working-age Chinese … Read More
July 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Two nearby explosions didn’t stop doctors at Kyiv’s largest children’s hospital from working. The third ripped through it. Russia’s conduct of its war in Ukraine is generating fresh opprobrium after the strike on the Okhmatdyt hospital, … Read More
July 10, 2024
(Foreign Policy) – A mixture of unintended consequences and indifference has left China playing a significant role in America’s fentanyl crisis. This has become a point of heated contention between Beijing and Washington. U.S. politicians accuse China of deliberately stoking … Read More
July 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – China is taking tentative new steps to help disrupt the global supply chain fueling the opioid crisis after intensifying criticism from the U.S. that its chemical factories are partly responsible for the deadly scourge. After a … Read More
July 4, 2024
(SciDevNet) – Concerns are growing about an outbreak of deadly mpox caused by a novel, sexually transmitted strain of the virus in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The strain triggered an outbreak in September, which has … Read More
July 4, 2024
(ABC News) – In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of … Read More
July 3, 2024
(NPR) – In this double-blind, randomized study of 5,300 cisgender women in South Africa and Uganda, 2,134 got the injection and the others took one of two types of daily PrEP pills. The trial began on August 2021 and, so … Read More
July 2, 2024
(New York Times) – Vyriy is just one of many Ukrainian companies working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology, driven by the war with Russia. The pressure to outthink the enemy, along with huge flows … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows … Read More
