October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – In specialized wards called mother-and-baby units, doctors treat postpartum psychosis while allowing women to keep caring for their children. A few hours later, Mr. Hardie was driving his wife and infant daughter to a specialized psychiatric … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – Thirteen states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of creating an intentionally addictive app that harmed children and teenagers while making false claims to the public about its commitment to … Read More
October 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Their saliva is making some farmers allergic to their own cattle and sheep. When Clark Giles first heard about ticks making people allergic to meat, he found the notion so unbelievable, he considered it “hogwash.” Then, in … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Wired) – The authors of the report estimate that 40 percent of all cancer cases are associated with “modifiable risk factors”—in other words, things we can change ourselves. Alcohol consumption being prominent among them. Six types of cancer are linked … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Washington Post) – Public health officials and researchers say the drop may reflect multiple forces, including access to treatment and overdose-reversal medication. Overdose deaths appear to be declining sharply in the United States, a sign that efforts to combat the … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The path to discovering a blockbuster drug is often unpredictable. A promising molecule might be overlooked for decades, only to regain attention when new scientific insights spark fresh interest from pharmaceutical companies. Such is the case … Read More
October 7, 2024
(The Guardian) – A judge has ordered an EPA risk assessment amid fear that additive that strengthens teeth could harm children’s IQs For decades, drinking water fluoridation opponents were often portrayed as a fringe element and conspiracy theorists, but a … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Slate) – The criteria for the condition have expanded since the 1980s, scooping up patients who say the diagnosis has steered them down the wrong path. But some psychiatrists think that the bipolar diagnosis has actually gone too far—that there … Read More
October 4, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Tech companies collect brain data that could be used to infer our thoughts—so it’s vital we get legal protections right. On September 28, California became the second US state to officially recognize the importance of mental … Read More
October 4, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lithium, in other words, has become firmly entrenched in the wellness industry’s extensive library of supplements. But in crucial ways, it is unlike the other trendy products that dance across your Instagram stories. At higher doses, lithium … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry ’s fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say are responsible … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Washington Post) – Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map of the human brain … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Nature) – As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it. The dominance of the United States raises concerns about the potential for unequal access to implantable BCI technologies as they … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Technopedia) – Amendments to California’s Consumer Privacy Act now include “neural data” under the category of “personal sensitive information,” which includes biometrics. This comes at a critical time when many neurotechology companies are creating products to read, interpret, and collect … Read More
October 1, 2024
(NPR) – “It’s the crime of the century,” says Bruce Lanphear. He’s not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Science) – Agency fines Cassava $40 million, and two of its employees lesser amounts, over research on simufilam The troubled biopharma company Cassava Sciences agreed last week to pay $40 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NPR) – More than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis, be it for medical purposes, recreational use, or both. The shelves of cannabis dispensaries offer an ever-widening array of gummies, drinks and joints. Meanwhile, the federal government still … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Before my visit to Blue Cliff, I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists … Read More
September 30, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 10, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The first new kind of treatment for schizophrenia patients in decades is arriving. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on Thursday, greenlighting the first of a new class of treatments that could help … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wired) – This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain. Made by Spanish company InBrain Neuroelectronics, the technology is a type of … Read More
September 26, 2024
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration is slated to decide Thursday whether to approve the first new schizophrenia drug in at least three decades. Why it matters: The complex condition is currently treated with antipsychotics that carry safety risks … Read More
