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
(Wired) – Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found. A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem … Read More
February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – New York is suing some of the largest vape distributors for allegedly fueling the country’s youth vaping epidemic. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit against 13 major e-cigarette manufacturers, distributors and retailers for illegally … Read More
February 20, 2025
(The Verge) – The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects. The Verge sought out legal documents and … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus … Read More
February 19, 2025
(BBC) – The tactic that had been used – perhaps successfully, in my case – is hundreds of years old. It is often deployed on social media, by brands and influencers, and by politicians around the globe. Often called an … Read More
February 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Shaw was among thousands of patients of Pain MD, a multistate pain management company that was once among the nation’s most prolific users of what it referred to as “tendon origin injections,” which normally inject a … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Wired) – Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it. Ms. Mekel, 82, has Alzheimer’s disease. It was diagnosed a year … Read More
February 17, 2025
(NPR) – For customers using a telehealth website to get cheaper versions of popular obesity drugs, the low prices turned out to be too good to be true. Customers of Zappy Health tell NPR they were drawn to the online … Read More
February 17, 2025
(The Markup) – The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark None of these women knew that … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Deseret News) – Surgical sterilization is on the rise among young American women during a global fertility crisis. What are unintended consequences of the decision? While elective sterilization is a personal decision, it is not without societal costs, particularly in … Read More
February 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals” from the use of fertilizer made from sewage sludge. A Texas county is taking steps to declare a state of … Read More
February 14, 2025
(BBC) – A professor who specialises in steroid abuse has called for regional centres of excellence to tackle what he says is becoming a growing public health concern. There is no official data of how many people in the UK … Read More
February 14, 2025
(New York Times) – It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans. In a case that could have major … Read More
February 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Patients who contest denials face a daunting process, but many are successful. ‘This appeal saved my life.’ Health insurers process more than five billion payment claims annually, federal figures show. About 850 million are denied, according … Read More
February 13, 2025
(CNBC) – Apple is deepening its investment in health-care research by launching a new, years long project called the Apple Health Study, the company announced Wednesday. The study will analyze how data from devices such as iPhones, AirPods and Apple … Read More
February 12, 2025
(NBC News) – Actor Scarlett Johansson is urging lawmakers to regulate the use of artificial intelligence after her likeness was used without her consent in a fake viral video that appears to show a handful of celebrities protesting the rapper … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Cincinnati Enquirer) – An Indiana family says Cincinnati Children’s won’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status. Janeen Deal, who is related by marriage to Vice President JD Vance’s half-siblings, said the hospital requires her daughter … Read More
February 12, 2025
(The Walrus) – Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted I was born missing an ear. What followed was years of well-intentioned violence from a medical system bent on solving the “problem” of my body. … Read More
February 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Since Hims’s founding in 2017, the company has been pointing toward a very particular future, one in which the word patient is interchangeable with customer. The Hims brand has primed people to view both their everyday health and the natural-aging … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Axios) – The luster is starting to wear off GLP-1 weight-loss drugs including Wegovy and Ozempic as more clinicians warn patients about side effects and other potential risks stemming from their surging demand. Why it matters: Research showing the drugs not … Read More
February 10, 2025
(Prospect) – In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of them The time between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma symptoms … Read More
February 10, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Telehealth company is pushing boundaries of drug compounding and testing regulators’ limits There’s a full-blown war over copycat versions of blockbuster obesity drugs. But their days are likely numbered. During Sunday’s Super Bowl, Hims & Hers Health —a … Read More
February 6, 2025
(New York Times) – Hospital and emergency room patients diagnosed with cannabis use disorder — defined as an inability to stop using cannabis even when the drug is causing harm — died at almost three times the rate of individuals … Read More
