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(Reuters via MSN) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S.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
January 23, 2025
(Axios) – Menopause is going from taboo to trendy as online influencers and celebrities like Naomi Watts and Drew Barrymore increasingly discuss their experiences and how to manage them. Why it matters: Menopause has been undergoing a rebrand, particularly as … 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
January 21, 2025
(Axios) – A study of more than 2 million Veterans Health Administration patient records found GLP-1 drugs lowered the likelihood of dozens of health conditions including Alzheimer’s disease but also had some unexpected risks. Why it matters: The review in … Read More
January 20, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Recreational ketamine use has increased in the United States in recent years, outpacing its rise as a treatment for depression, a new analysis suggests. The hallucinogenic drug — a controlled substance designed for use as … Read More
January 16, 2025
(New York Times) – A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills. The intention behind the program was for a small number of safety-net providers to have access … Read More
January 16, 2025
(BBC) – Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines told the UK Covid Inquiry they were forced to support each other during the pandemic because there was no other help. Kate Scott, who represents the group Vaccine Injured and Bereaved … Read More
January 16, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A 34-year-old Australian woman was charged with torture as police accused her of administering unauthorized medication to a 1-year-old girl and posting videos of the child in “immense distress and pain” so that she could … Read More
January 15, 2025
(Los Angeles Times) – The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid … Read More
January 15, 2025
(Associated Press) – U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. Food and Drug Administration officials granted a 2022 … Read More
January 15, 2025
(NPR) – Both men had surgery to remove a brain arteriovenous malformation, a tangle of abnormal blood vessels prone to bleeding. Both men suspect that their condition was linked to their years as Marine gunners exposed to repeated blast waves … Read More
January 13, 2025
(NPR) – If you want to get high in Texas, your options are almost limitless. This law-and-order state of guns, God and capital punishment is awash in cannabis. Today, Texas has more than 7,000 cannabis dispensaries, almost twice as many … Read More
January 10, 2025
(Wired) – Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models. Against the company’s wishes, a court unredacted information … Read More
January 10, 2025
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 24, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
