February 5, 2025
(Medscape) – Canada’s legalization of cannabis has been linked to an increase in schizophrenia cases, new research shows. Over a 16-year time period — spanning before and after legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use — the number of … 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
February 4, 2025
(New York Times) – The fallout from the F.D.A.’s rejection of MDMA-assisted treatment for PTSD worries researchers and experts who fear other psychedelic drugs in the pipeline could be jeopardized. Dr. Devenot and six others presented themselves as experts in … Read More
February 4, 2025
(NPR) – The testing data, which he shared with NPR, shows four products would have failed state limits for yeasts and mold, one by more than six times the state limit. And Singer looked for things Colorado doesn’t require testing … Read More
February 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Both can do you harm, and the debate is clouded by less research into the effects of cannabis A renewed focus on alcohol’s health effects has rekindled a common debate: Is alcohol or marijuana worse for … Read More
January 31, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Just over half of patients with overweight or obesity discontinued their GLP-1 receptor agonist within 1 year, with rates even higher among the subset without type 2 diabetes, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 125,000 … Read More
January 31, 2025
(NPR) – Kids and teens should mostly stick to water and plain milk and avoid drinks with added sugar, artificial sweeteners and caffeine. That’s according to new recommendations from a coalition of health and nutrition organizations, which come as highly … Read More
January 30, 2025
(Bloomberg) – Egg donation comes with health risks. Women are unable to learn which clinics have the fewest adverse outcomes. For women in the US seeking fertility treatment or considering donating their eggs, there’s a fair amount of information they … Read More
January 30, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The ads feature high-wattage celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez as well as lesser-known influencers who are paid four figures to post a snapshot or short video to Instagram, according to interviews with marketers. Three publicly traded … Read More
January 29, 2025
(Wired) – The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn has invited scrutiny of the service. Amid the hype, researchers … Read More
January 29, 2025
(ProPublica) – At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions. The deaths, … Read More
January 29, 2025
(New York Times) – Since the pandemic, drug trials that purposely make people vomit, shiver and ache have become a research area of growing interest. All that’s needed: brave volunteers. “A lot of people say, ‘Doesn’t this violate the Hippocratic … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Discover) – Investigating the impacts of the drug, recent research in JAMA Network Open has revealed that heavy cannabis use is associated with reduced brain activity during working memory tasks. Representing the largest of any such study so far, the … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Wired) – Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny. The United States’ recent regulatory action against the … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Many people who continue with IVF feel that, if they want a child, they have no other choice. “Right now our treatment options are pretty binary,” Pietro Bortoletto, the director of reproductive surgery and a co-director of … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. … Read More
January 27, 2025
(ProPublica) – The U.S. Department of Labor found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, findings that mirror a recent ProPublica investigation. Health plans, and the companies that administer them, … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Wired) – When online romance and sextortion scammers sense they’ve found a victim who may send them money, they’ll use all kinds of villainous methods to get paid. They’ll frequently stoop to blackmail—and are constantly creating more devious approaches to … Read More
January 24, 2025
(ProPublica) – The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation. Health plans, and the companies that administer them, have excluded … Read More
January 24, 2025
(Science) – On 2 January, Japan’s regulatory agency issued a news release that startled some scientists: It had approved the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, for the treatment of mpox and two cousins, smallpox and cowpox. No treatments … Read More
January 24, 2025
(Quartz) – LinkedIn has been sued by its Premium customers for allegedly disclosing personal information to train AI models without their consent. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, proposes a class-action … Read More
January 23, 2025
(DNYUZ) – ExThera, which has about 50 employees, makes a single product: a filter that it says can be used to remove the tumor cells that circulate in patients’ blood and enable cancer to metastasize. Early last year, the company … 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 23, 2025
(New York Times) – People are paying thousands for exhaustive medical tests and treatments like plasma exchange and peptide therapy. How much does it benefit them? Patients say that they feel rejuvenated by the interventions, and that while the plethora … Read More
January 23, 2025
(BBC) – When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by China’s government. Within days he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for schizophrenia. Junjie is one of dozens of … Read More
