January 30, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Whether the goal of these clinics is to treat low T or jack levels up to the max isn’t clear. Many encourage men to aim for excessive T, Michael Irwig, an endocrinologist at Harvard Medical School, told … Read More
January 30, 2026
(CNN) – The Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal court to pause a Louisiana lawsuit seeking to end access to abortion pills by mail. The new filing from the US Food and Drug Administration said the court should put … Read More
January 28, 2026
(WSJ) – “If you’re carrying 15-20 extra pounds,” it says, “medications like Wegovy can help jumpstart your progress.” For obesity doctors and researchers, this kind of messaging is problematic. The blockbuster drugs—known as GLP-1s—are increasingly marketed as lifestyle fixes to … Read More
January 27, 2026
(ProPublica) – ProPublica on Friday published never-before-released data connecting generic drugs to the factories that manufactured them. The data powers Rx Inspector, our groundbreaking tool that allows you to find the factories where your generic drugs were made and their … Read More
January 26, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Safety standards have improved since the industry’s early days in China, when botched surgeries and unlicensed aesthetic products were commonplace. But the combination of social media, cosmetic clinics trawling for business in a competitive market … Read More
January 26, 2026
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – For years, parents alleged that top social media companies had gotten teens hooked on their products with addictive design features, arguing in legal filings these choices led to depression, anxiety, eating disorders – and in … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Epic’s disclosures offer a rare glimpse into the unseen workings of how your personal medical records move from one network to another, who has access to them, and where there may be gaps that allow … Read More
January 19, 2026
(NPR) – About a quarter of the Israeli soldiers killed in the war in Gaza had their sperm retrieved after death. Hundreds of young Israeli soldiers were killed in the Gaza war these last few years. Their families were asked … Read More
January 15, 2026
(MedPage Today) – An official from the Africa CDC said if it moves forward, it must meet ethical criteria A controversial study on hepatitis B vaccination in Guinea-Bissau that was funded in part by the U.S. CDC has been halted. … Read More
January 15, 2026
(The Verge) – The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that tracks your temperature, heart rate, and movement while you sleep. Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a … Read More
January 13, 2026
(WAVY) – Although the average person might consider unauthorized procedures involving sterilization and unnecessary induced labor, as well as false diagnoses of cancer, to be “malpractice,” that is not the basis of a recent lawsuit against Chesapeake Regional Medical Center … Read More
January 13, 2026
(The Atlantic) – On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the … Read More
January 12, 2026
(WSJ) – When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released his MAHA Report in May, a who’s who of the wellness world convened at the White House for the occasion. There was the influential physician Mark Hyman, who co-founded the … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Axios) – Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary’s flagship effort to overhaul how the agency reviews drugs is facing intensifying scrutiny from Congress and the medical establishment over whether it’s putting politics over science. The big picture: The Commissioner’s … Read More
January 9, 2026
(Wired) – Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases. Last February, a sick infant named KJ received a gene-editing treatment made … Read More
January 8, 2026
(Aeon) – For people with chronic illnesses, the relief and recognition of online communities can set up a toxic psychological trap This is the paradox of chronic illness today. Never before have humans possessed such convenient access to abundant medical … Read More
January 6, 2026
(Wired) – Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public. Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the … Read More
January 2, 2026
(Discover) – According to the CDC, around one in ten (11.4 percent) children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), millions of whom take prescription medication, like Ritalin and Adderall, to manage symptoms such as inattentiveness and impulsivity. … Read More
January 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The real-world consequences of AI therapy came to a head in unexpected ways in 2025 as we waded through a critical mass of stories about human-chatbot relationships, the flimsiness of guardrails on many LLMs, and the … Read More
December 31, 2025
(WSJ) – A nicotine replacement for smokers has started popping up in offices in the tech industry, despite health hazards Meet the tech industry’s latest perk: nicotine-pouch fridges and vending machines. Nicotine pouches, which have grown in popularity in recent … Read More
December 31, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
December 30, 2025
(New York Times) – More than 500 women claimed that they had received unnecessary operations. Hospital leaders said they were not aware of a doctor’s misconduct. More than 500 women sued a Virginia health system and its senior executives on … Read More
December 29, 2025
(The Guardian) – Exclusive: Scientists find a way to forecast hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which affects millions worldwide Scientists are developing a simple blood test to predict who is most at risk from the world’s most common inherited heart condition. Millions of … Read More
December 26, 2025
(Wired) – Over the past two years, generative AI tools—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini—have moved beyond the relatively straightforward, text-only chatbots that the companies initially released. Instead, Big AI is increasingly building and pushing toward the adoption of … Read More
December 24, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them. India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism and political anxiety. At a time when liberal democracies are scrambling to … Read More
