October 1, 2024
(NPR) – “It’s the crime of the century,” says Bruce Lanphear. He’s not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Science) – Agency fines Cassava $40 million, and two of its employees lesser amounts, over research on simufilam The troubled biopharma company Cassava Sciences agreed last week to pay $40 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NPR) – More than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis, be it for medical purposes, recreational use, or both. The shelves of cannabis dispensaries offer an ever-widening array of gummies, drinks and joints. Meanwhile, the federal government still … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned. 23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Children conceived through IVF and other reproductive technologies have a significantly higher risk of serious heart abnormalities than naturally conceived children, a large international study has found. A study of 7.7 million children in four northern … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Fierce Pharma) – The PCMPA has slammed Moderna over an unapproved WhatsApp message that offered children in the U.K. 1,500 pounds sterling ($2,000) to participate in a clinical trial of its COVID-19 booster vaccine. U.K. self-regulatory body the PMCPA received a … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Two members of Congress have asked an inspector general to investigate whether the top federal regulator for medical devices like pacemakers and artificial hips acted ethically in work that overlapped with that of his wife, a … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients. In the past, if patients wanted to see what their therapists had written about them, they had … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – As more states have legalized the sale of cannabis, a fractured and inconsistent legal framework has emerged across the country that has prioritized sales income and tax revenue over public health, a new report finds. The … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Undark) – The rate of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes has remained stubbornly high. Experts are concerned about misuse. A new analysis of more than 12,000 nursing homes by the Long Term Care Community Coalition, or LTCCC, a New … Read More
September 26, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Other than staying on drug, there’s no evidence-based strategy to maintain weight loss Looking at the data from clinical trials of new GLP-1 agonists, it’s clear that patients will need to stay on the drugs to maintain … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Nature) – A team of scientist–sleuths has flagged data-integrity concerns in 130 studies authored by the same biomedical researcher, a specialist in women’s health and gynaecology, and his colleagues. The sleuths published their findings in a peer-reviewed paper earlier this … Read More
September 25, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Like normal Botox, baby Botox involves injections of a muscle paralytic. The difference is that baby Botox is proactive versus reactive: If first administered in youth and repeated every few months for the rest of your life, … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Wired) – Neurable’s MW75 Neuro is an everyday brain-computer interface that aims to boost your productivity. It also raises questions about data privacy. Today, Boston-based company Neurable announced the launch of its smart headphones, dubbed the MW75 Neuro, which use … Read More
September 24, 2024
(UPI) – A Harvard study of almost 2,000 former National Football League players revealed that about one-third believe they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disorder linked to repeated head impacts. The study, published Monday in JAMA Neurology, draws … Read More
September 24, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Ozempic and Mounjaro, used to treat diabetes, and their respective counterparts for weight loss, Wegovy and Zepbound, were approved by the Food and Drug Administration as “forever” drugs that are supposed to be taken in … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – In March 2023, a Pennsylvania woman received a phone call from a health-care executive that left her in disbelief: Hackers had obtained photos of her naked body while she underwent radiation treatments and posted them … Read More
September 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Breast reduction is all the rage in cosmetic surgery. Are women asserting their independence or capitulating to yet another impossible standard of beauty? The women walk into the surgeons’ offices with photos cued up on their … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) may have a higher risk of severe complications during pregnancy and early postpartum, hypertension in pregnancy, and postpartum hemorrhage, compared to people who conceive without assistance or with IVF, according … Read More
September 19, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Scientists have now been studying microplastic for 20 years, since a paper in 2004 first used the term, and have started on nanoplastics, the vanishingly small versions that build up in organs. In that time, human exposure … Read More
September 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Scientists continue to rethink the idea that moderate drinking offers health benefits. Adults under age 50 have been developing breast cancer and colorectal cancer at increasingly higher rates over the last few decades, and alcohol use … Read More
September 18, 2024
(ABC News) – The number of calls to U.S. poison centers about children consuming energy drinks increased about 20% in 2023 after years of remaining relatively flat, according to data from America’s Poison Centers. America’s Poison Centers, which accredits and … Read More
September 18, 2024
(New York Times) – So what does Gen Z really think about social media? Is it more like walkie-talkies, where hardly anyone wished they had never been invented? Or is it more like cigarettes, where smokers often say they enjoy … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Axios) – Private equity’s expanding role in billing, tracking and collecting payments for health care is exacerbating America’s medical debt problem, a new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project concludes. Why it matters: PE-owned “end-to-end” service providers squeeze consumers … Read More
