July 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem. Calling loneliness an epidemic transforms a feeling into … Read More
July 17, 2025
(STAT News) – After a decade-long rise in suicide rates among young Americans — and with depression diagnoses soaring in this age group during the pandemic — the U.S. surgeon general issued a report in 2021 warning about the “devastating” … Read More
July 16, 2025
(New York Times) – When it comes to mental health, most treatments for conditions like depression or anxiety come with caveats. Medications work for some symptoms, but can exacerbate others. Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective for many patients, but not … Read More
July 16, 2025
(Forbes) – Some professionals have warned against the excessive use of YouTube Shorts. For example, ChoosingTherapy.com, an outline site for mental health articles, released a report in 2023 describing how the compulsive urge to watch videos on YouTube can lead … Read More
July 16, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
July 15, 2025
(The Guardian) – Polyamorous but married to a monogamous wife, Travis soon found himself falling in love. Before long, with the approval of his human wife, he married Lily Rose in a digital ceremony. This unlikely relationship forms the basis … Read More
July 14, 2025
(Tech Crunch) – Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford University. While recent coverage in The New York Times and elsewhere … Read More
July 14, 2025
Hastings Center Report (vol. 55, Issue 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 11, 2025
(New York Times) – A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey. The Flow case encompassed scores of investigators, prosecutors … Read More
July 10, 2025
(Associated Press) – The triumphs of finding people alive ended days ago, while the mission of recovering bodies that might include even more children is far from over. The grim undertaking has prompted questions about how first responders and rescue … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Nature) – Better stress assessment and tailored interventions could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage. Decades of research have shown that, although short bursts of stress can be healthy, unrelenting stress contributes to heart disease, … Read More
July 8, 2025
(KFF Health News) – As many Americans have grown increasingly intolerant of street homelessness, cities and states have returned to tough-on-crime approaches that penalize people for living outside and for substance use disorders. But the Skid Row facility shows Los … Read More
July 8, 2025
(Axios) – Children’s physical and mental health declined across multiple measures over the 17 years ending in 2023, according to new research led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Why it matters: The findings published Monday in JAMA offer some … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Wired) – As psychedelic companies and therapy apps experiment with AI, people are already taking huge doses of drugs and using chatbots to process their trips. He recently asked the app’s “chat with your mind” function how he had become … Read More
July 2, 2025
(BBC) – In January, Catherine announced she was in remission from cancer, which had been diagnosed last year. But her latest comments are a reminder how this is a gradual path to recovery. She said: “You put on a sort … Read More
July 2, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Peter—who asked to have his last name omitted from this story for privacy reasons—is far from alone. A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Wired) – It was when we got back to the house that afternoon that things fell apart. I was sitting on the couch in the living room. Damien was sitting next to me, angled back in a reclining chair. He … Read More
July 1, 2025
(Aeon) – Emerging research from the past few years has revealed that, within an individual, ADHD can be highly unstable across the lifespan. Many, if not most, individuals with ADHD, will meet formal diagnostic criteria for the disorder during some … Read More
July 1, 2025
(Harper’s Magazine) – What were we if not obsessive-compulsive, we who so often traced our origins to a people whose very name, the Puritans, epitomized the perfectionistic delusion underlying this illness? A people so committed to virtue that they’d risked … Read More
June 30, 2025
(New York Times) – E.R. doctors want you to know that they are people, too. At an event called Airway, one confessed, “I do not like these big, high stakes, bloody, messy, risky procedures.” Nine doctors were gathered at a … Read More
June 27, 2025
(Rest of World) – Content moderators say they’re exposed to graphic violence, psychological trauma, and union-busting tactics, and now a larger movement is brewing. Yavuz is at the forefront of an international movement to demand better recognition, rewards, and working … Read More
June 25, 2025
(NPR) – Now the hashtag may be gone, but eliminating this kind of harmful content is not that simple. There’s still no shortage of people — on TikTok and other social media platforms — spreading unhealthy information on how to … Read More
June 24, 2025
(Aeon) – The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors We mostly used the term ‘disinhibition’ as a mitigation: an invitation to think creatively about how to … Read More
June 23, 2025
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 28, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
June 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Ibogaine has been touted for its potential to erase years of addiction and withdrawal in one session. Banned in the U.S., the drug is prompting Americans to cross borders for treatment. Desperate to break free from … Read More
