February 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious … Read More
February 21, 2025
(BBC) – An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers – born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness – gain “life-changing improvements” to their sight, according to doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Aeon) – We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again? These apps and algorithms are part of a growing class of technologies that marry artificial intelligence (AI) with the … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wired) – The semaglutide shortage has officially ended in the US—which means the GLP-1 drug industry is about to undergo massive changes. The US Food and Drug Administration has determined that semaglutide is no longer in shortage, a move that … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wired) – Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found. A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem … Read More
February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a probe into leading technology companies’ content policies and user bans, Chair Andrew Ferguson announced Thursday, suggesting their actions could amount to illegal censorship. “Big Tech censorship is not just … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Civil probe of diagnoses that triggered extra payments to the company’s Medicare Advantage plans adds to scrutiny of the healthcare giant The Justice Department has launched an investigation into UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices in recent … Read More
February 21, 2025
(New York Times) – The World Anti-Doping Agency withdrew a defamation lawsuit and an ethics case against American officials critical of its handling of failed tests by members of China’s Olympic swimming squad. The World Anti-Doping Agency has dropped a … Read More
February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – New York is suing some of the largest vape distributors for allegedly fueling the country’s youth vaping epidemic. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit against 13 major e-cigarette manufacturers, distributors and retailers for illegally … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … 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
(New York Times) – Most medical professionals learned long ago not to expect reality in dramatizations of their work. From the early days of “General Hospital,” to “Grey’s Anatomy” and its various spinoffs, to more recent hits like “The Good … Read More
February 20, 2025
(New York Times) – But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions unanswered. Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests … Read More
February 20, 2025
(NPR) – It’s a well-known statistic that men don’t live as long as women. Life expectancy for an American man is almost 76, versus 81 for a woman. But it’s not just older men dying sooner: those numbers are influenced by other deaths … Read More
February 20, 2025
(The Verge) – The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects. The Verge sought out legal documents and … Read More
February 20, 2025
(USA Today) – If it seems like you and everyone around you are getting sick this winter, you’re not wrong. Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. … 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 19, 2025
(ABC News) – Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role – and they say the evolution of this singular ability was key to our survival. A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health. But healthy people are rife with viruses that don’t make us ill. Scientists estimate that tens … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese money brokers are teaming up with Mexican cartels, greasing the wheels of the fentanyl trade, U.S. officials say After a quick discussion with a woman in the Maserati, the man placed a large black bag … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month. World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone that … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – “The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out. Since opening last summer for a short run at the Almeida … Read More
February 19, 2025
(NPR) – President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday evening with the goal of expanding access to and lowering the cost of the infertility treatment known as IVF, or in vitro fertilization. The order directs Trump’s assistant for domestic policy to … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Vatican officials have said Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating his recovery. The 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, doctors said he had developed a mix … Read More
