March 28, 2025
(Undark) – In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority. Shortly after Abdellaoui announced his withdrawal, he learned that Kirkegaard was scratched from the speaker lineup, and Abdellaoui decided to … 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
(Science) – Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say From programs designed to detect irregular heartbeats in electrocardiograms to software that tracks eye movements to diagnose autism in children, artificial intelligence (AI) … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Slate) – While there is nothing new about autism playing a role in death cases, Kohberger’s motion ups the ante. Rather than waiting until a death sentence has been imposed, they are arguing it would be unconstitutional to allow a … Read More
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – Health providers in Sudan have recorded 221 cases of rape since the start of 2024, according to the UNICEF report. Among the victims, 147 were girls and 74 were boys. Sixteen children were younger than 5 … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found. Why it matters: Black mothers in the … Read More
February 28, 2025
(NBC News) – Faulty use of facial recognition technology led to the unjust arrest of a Detroit woman, she said in a federal lawsuit, claiming police failed to ask basic questions that could’ve cleared her on the spot. LaDonna Crutchfield, … Read More
February 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. … Read More
February 26, 2025
(New York Times) – Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine. Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – The writing teachers I know struggle to persuade their students not to use these tools. They are everywhere now, impossible to swat away. Who could blame a young writer for wondering how using these “assistants” is … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – The District’s only for-profit psychiatric hospital prioritizes profits over patient care, systematically committing patients when not medically necessary to maximize insurance payments, a former patient alleges in a lawsuit. The unidentified patient was held for … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Aeon) – We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again? These apps and algorithms are part of a growing class of technologies that marry artificial intelligence (AI) with the … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Wired) – Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED. As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ravaged its way … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New Yorker) – In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away … Read More
February 10, 2025
(USA Today) – Many in Ballinger’s hospital − which serves a high immigrant population in one of the most diverse regions in the U.S. − have worried about threats of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Officials in New York City have … Read More
February 7, 2025
(NPR) – For years, people like Valdez have often been left to fend for themselves when seeking health care services after their release from jail, prison, or other carceral facilities. Despite this population’s high rate of mental health problems and … Read More
February 7, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle. Their horrifying ordeal has been revealed by three Thai women who were freed from … Read More
February 6, 2025
(The Conversation) – We brought together our expertise in economics and gender based violence to examine excess mortality (avoidable deaths) due to FGM/C. Our new research now reveals a devastating reality: FGM/C is one of the leading causes of death … Read More
February 6, 2025
(Axios) – The mortality rate for Black mothers in the U.S. has not improved, per data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: The pregnancy-related death rate for Black women is more than three … Read More
February 5, 2025
(NBC News) – Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.” … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Wired) – Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled. Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how … Read More
January 30, 2025
(Associated Press) – A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Monday 27 January is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three survivors, two of whom were interned there as teenagers, tell Kate Connolly their stories. Before the Nazis came … Read More
January 23, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws. For practical purposes, however, American children can access porn as soon as they can figure out how to navigate a web … Read More
January 22, 2025
(NBC News) – NBC News reported last year that the University of North Texas Health Science Center chopped up, studied and leased out hundreds of unclaimed bodies. The president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center is stepping … Read More
