March 5, 2025
(CBS News) – A dozen children became ill after ingesting marijuana gummies at a New York middle school. The students, ages 12 to 13, started vomiting after taking the edibles Monday morning at William Floyd Middle School in Moriches. A … Read More
March 4, 2025
(Nature) – From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming strategies. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described krankhafte Kauflust — the pathological desire to buy — as … Read More
March 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – For some people, alcohol has taken a back seat to other substances, including mushrooms, LSD and ketamine Like many others, Brenc uses the term “California sober” to describe her way of life. Alcohol is largely off the table, but … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Science) – Innovative trial designs aim to separate participant expectations from drug effects This “functional unblinding” is not unique to psychedelics, but it’s especially pronounced in this drug class. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expressed concern about … Read More
March 3, 2025
(The Conversation) – Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis. But studies so far have had inconsistent findings. To address these inconsistencies, my colleagues and I used what researchers call a … Read More
February 26, 2025
(NPR) – “I think it helped,” says her husband, Ken Bell. “But I’m not sure.” That sort of uncertainty is common when it comes to Leqembi and Kisunla, two new Alzheimer’s drugs approved since 2023. Both drugs clear the brain … Read More
February 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration has taken a crucial step toward expanding access to the antipsychotic medication clozapine, the only drug approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, among the most devastating of mental illnesses. The agency announced on … Read More
February 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Research into psilocybin led by the biotech company Compass Pathways has been slowed in part by the complexity of the trials, but the data already shows promise for the psychedelic compound within so-called magic mushrooms. Eventually, … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted its first approval for a pacemaker-like device for the brain to ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which affects nearly 1 million people in the United States. Why it matters: Medtronic, … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Wired) – Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems. Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by exiles from OpenAI, has introduced the first AI model … Read More
February 24, 2025
(USA Today) – The increase in AI and technological advances in U.S. classrooms has challenged English teachers to adapt their reading lessons and writing assignments. Some of these educational AI technology products on the market can help kids learn to … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Self) – More likely to fall through the cracks as kids, adult females are seeking autism diagnoses after years of searching for answers. Increased diagnostic rates of autism in adult women don’t necessarily reflect changes in how many people are … Read More
February 20, 2025
(Nature) – The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated … Read More
February 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Shaw was among thousands of patients of Pain MD, a multistate pain management company that was once among the nation’s most prolific users of what it referred to as “tendon origin injections,” which normally inject a … Read More
February 18, 2025
(NBC News) – Researchers say public health warnings are “essential to prevent the escalation of gambling-related harm and its long-term consequences.” Internet searches seeking help for gambling addiction have “increased substantially” as the number of states with legalized sports betting has expanded … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Wired) – Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon … Read More
February 18, 2025
(BBC) – Five NHS audiology departments have told the BBC that there has been an increase in the number of young people referred to them from GPs with hearing issues – only to find their hearing is normal when tested … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? Many see illicit fentanyl, said to be about 50 times as powerful as … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it. Ms. Mekel, 82, has Alzheimer’s disease. It was diagnosed a year … Read More
February 13, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Rodriguez and his wife, Maria Fernandez, who live in Miami, thought they would never hear his voice again. Then they re-created it using AI. After feeding old recordings of Rodriguez’s voice into a tool trained on … Read More
February 12, 2025
(Minnesota Star Tribune) – The trial involves a peptide developed by Minneapolis-based biotech startup OX2 Therapeutics. Children’s Minnesota is testing the safety of a new vaccine combination to combat one of the deadliest pediatric cancers, which could give new hope … Read More
February 11, 2025
(Nature) – Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health. A sliver of human brain in a small vial starts to melt as … Read More
February 11, 2025
(New Yorker) – In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. “I’m Not a Robot” opens on a tranquil workplace scene. Women sit at tables in an open-plan office, tapping away … Read More
February 10, 2025
(404 Media) – Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their … Read More
