September 17, 2024
(NPR) – PURPOSE 2, the name for the latest trial sponsored by Gilead Science, the California-based maker of lenacapavir, found the drug to be 96% effective in preventing HIV infections in the newly released results of a clinical trial of … Read More
September 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four months’ … Read More
September 16, 2024
(The Guardian) – As a legal academic, I have been investigating the global trade in organs since 2014. Over the past 10 years, I have spoken to 43 people from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea who sold a kidney out … Read More
September 13, 2024
(ABC News) – A San Jose-based biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that could be cut out of the U.S. market over ties to China A California biotechnology company that helps doctors detect … Read More
September 11, 2024
(New York Times) – Fatalities spiked 71 percent last year, far outpacing the 13 percent rise in cases, the World Health Organization said. The cholera outbreaks spreading across the globe are becoming more deadly. Deaths from the diarrheal disease soared … Read More
September 10, 2024
(ABC News) – A 12-day campaign to stop the polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip moved into its third and final phase today, an effort to vaccinate about 150,000 children in the northern part of the war-torn territory. Its previous … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Nature) – Questions surrounding an often-repeated statistic about Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity show that researchers should take more care when sourcing facts. For at least two decades, scientists, policymakers and journals, including Nature, have cited a statistic without determining its … Read More
September 9, 2024
(The Conversation) – A ten-month-old boy in the Gaza Strip was recently paralysed by poliovirus – the first such case in the region this century. Israel and Hamas have agreed to a limited ceasefire to allow 640,000 children in the … Read More
September 6, 2024
(NPR) – Last time NPR spoke to Abukhedeir, it had been just a month since he left Gaza. The physical exhaustion and the emotional wounds of the death and injuries he had to deal with as the chief neurosurgeon of … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese authorities have detained several employees of British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on suspicion of bringing an unapproved cancer drug into the country, people familiar with the matter said. Chinese authorities have recently given closer scrutiny to cases … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Beijing formally ends a program that was propelled by birth restrictions and that had been largely on hold since the pandemic China said it was formally ending almost all international adoptions, shutting down a process that … Read More
September 5, 2024
(The Verge) – The US, UK, and European Union have signed the first “legally binding” treaty on AI, which is supposed to ensure its use aligns with “human rights, democracy and the rule of law,” according to the Council of Europe. The … Read More
September 5, 2024
(NPR) – It seems as if getting mpox vaccines to Congo should have been straightforward — one country needs vaccines, other countries are willing to give them. The U.S. in fact has been ready to send doses to Africa for … Read More
September 4, 2024
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 45, no 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 2, 2024
(Nature) – Science has a history of exploitation and extraction. Microbiologists have the chance to take a different approach. Around the time the study was published, Crittenden found herself sitting with a Hadza friend on a blanket under the shade … Read More
September 2, 2024
(ABC News) – Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war. … Read More
August 29, 2024
(ABC News) – The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted … Read More
August 29, 2024
(Vox) – More than a decade ago, scientists achieved a historic breakthrough: They found a first-ever cure for hepatitis C, one of two related liver diseases that, combined, take more than a million lives every year. In 2016, just three … Read More
August 29, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Bioacoustics is the thrilling combination of biology and acoustics, helping us gain insights from sounds produced by animals and humans. Generative AI, the kind of tech that brought ChatGPT to 200 million users worldwide, is now adding a … Read More
August 27, 2024
(Reuters) – Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. … Read More
August 26, 2024
(Reuters) – A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with U.N. agencies appealing for urgent … Read More
August 23, 2024
(Science) – Mpox circulated in Nigeria for 8 years before it sparked a global outbreak. What happened? And could it have been stopped? The first two patients were discharged; in the subsequent months another two who fit the same profile … Read More
August 21, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Athletes who swam in the Seine during the Olympic games in Paris had higher rates of gastroenteritis than those in games past, a U.S. Olympic official told MedPage Today. About 10% of athletes who competed in the … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to ramp up scrutiny of U.S. clinical trials conducted in China, citing the risk of intellectual property theft and the possibility of forced participation of Uyghurs. … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Reuters) – A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its spread. “We can and must tackle … Read More
