April 10, 2026
(Wired) – Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. Meta claims that Muse Spark was designed, in part, to be … Read More
April 8, 2026
(NPR) – “There is a lot of fear and anxiety about AI,” says psychologist Vaile Wright, senior director of health care innovation at the American Psychological Association (APA). “And in particular fear around AI replacing jobs.” Those concerns were a … Read More
April 7, 2026
(NPR) – For this study, researchers surveyed 168 patients waiting to see a clinician to receive medication abortion. “If they were interested and eligible to participate in the study, they looked at a box that is kind of like a … Read More
April 7, 2026
(Florida Today) – A Florida doctor entangled in an embryo mixup lawsuit is being sued by another patient claiming he used a “severely mentally ill” woman as a surrogate. Dr. Milton McNichol, along with Fertility Center of Orlando, IVF Life, … Read More
April 2, 2026
(The Guardian) – Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench? Over the next decade, predicts the Meta founder … Read More
April 1, 2026
(KFF Health News) – The clinical trial among preterm infants that Abbott subsequently sponsored, known as AL16, is a case study of corporate warfare in the high-stakes business of infant nutrition, wherein preemies have been coveted like commodities; their anxious, … Read More
March 25, 2026
(NYT) – The attorneys general of Texas and Arizona contend that Cord Blood Registry, which stores umbilical cord cells, profited from misleading new parents. The company, Cord Blood Registry, houses more than a million samples of umbilical cords in Tucson, … Read More
March 25, 2026
(CT) – Supplements and other wellness products do big business on social media, and even Scripture can be turned into marketing language. Energy drinks are an $80 billion dollar business. Praise Energy is an example of the “wellness washing” of … Read More
March 25, 2026
(WSJ) – Jurors found the companies negligent and said their app designs caused harm to children A jury found Instagram’s owner Meta and YouTube negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those … Read More
March 24, 2026
(Wired) – Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse. The desire for self-awareness is not new, but these data offer a different twist on … Read More
March 23, 2026
(AP) – Because of participants’ silence around the ritual, families and authorities have struggled to understand and police a deeply traditional but often abused practice. At least a half-dozen former initiates would not speak to The Associated Press. Meanwhile, hundreds … Read More
March 19, 2026
(The Atlantic) – On Monday, a federal judge issued a preliminary ruling with a harsh reprimand for the Trump administration: You’ve done this vaccine stuff all wrong. The Trump administration likely broke the law, the judge’s 45-page decision argued, when … Read More
March 18, 2026
(NPR) – The treatment in question is leucovorin, a derivative of vitamin B9 — also called folinic acid — that is commonly used during cancer treatment. Federal officials said it could help treat a rare brain condition called cerebral folate … Read More
March 17, 2026
(WSJ) – The psychedelic-like anesthetic is at the heart of a booming online industry that promises relief from depression but has also led to harm Just a few years ago, ketamine had mostly a dual existence: as an anesthetic to … Read More
March 17, 2026
(NYTs) – For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character. Legally and politically, platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have been protected by … Read More
March 17, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Welcome to the golden age of gray-market drugs. Vyleesi has never been approved for men. Some clinics advertise that they’ll prescribe the drug to men off-label, but even that is often not necessary for men to get … Read More
March 13, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Artificial intelligence is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it. The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: … Read More
March 12, 2026
(WSJ) – Some companies have found lucrative opportunities to capitalize on a growing need, billing long hours and extracting payments as high as $800 an hour The business of providing therapy to children with autism has surged in recent years … Read More
March 11, 2026
(New York Times) – Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake. With her modest white hair-covering and wire-rim spectacles, Melanskia is earnest, charming and quite convincing. She is also not real. … Read More
March 11, 2026
(Gizmodo) – The blood biomarker p-tau217 has “shown the most promise in detecting Alzheimer’s in the brain,” researchers of a new study say. Your blood might someday reveal much about the distant future of your brain health. A study out … Read More
March 11, 2026
(NPR) – The long-running campaign against smoking could find reinforcements from the new wave of research into psychedelics. Though much of the attention around psychedelics has focused on depression and other mental health conditions, researchers believe these substances also hold … Read More
March 10, 2026
(WSJ) – Federal investigators are uncovering new layers of fraud in government programs, with a Minnesota man pleading guilty last week to bilking Medicaid by setting up a sham autism center. Meantime, a federal audit last week revealed how Medicaid … Read More
March 4, 2026
(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday sent 30 telehealth companies warning letters about their “illegal” sales of compounded GLP-1s, building off increasing pressure to tamp down on the sale of these unapproved medications. According to … Read More
March 4, 2026
(PBS) – Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable … Read More
March 3, 2026
(Futurism) – And regardless of the wearer’s intention, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are … Read More
