March 31, 2025
(New York Times) – Ivermectin, a drug proven to treat certain parasitic diseases, exploded in popularity during the pandemic amid false claims that it could treat or prevent Covid-19. Now — despite a persistent message from federal health officials that … Read More
March 31, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A … Read More
March 31, 2025
(NBC News) – Three pet owners whose cats got bird flu describe their symptoms and quick declines. As such cases mount, public health experts are warning about raw meat and raw milk. In cats, bird flu tends to be swift … Read More
March 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to … Read More
March 31, 2025
(NPR) – As a measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, and other states report outbreaks of their own, some pediatricians across the U.S. say they are seeing a new trend among concerned parents: vaccine enthusiasm. … Read More
March 31, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries. The engineers at a startup called UBTech are training humanlike robots to sort auto … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Undark) – In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority. Shortly after Abdellaoui announced his withdrawal, he learned that Kirkegaard was scratched from the speaker lineup, and Abdellaoui decided to … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Wired) – In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from testicular tissue when he was a child. Jaiwen Hsu was an active 11-year-old when he developed pain … Read More
March 28, 2025
(UPI) – A study published Wednesday indicates that low levels of a key brain chemical among overweight patients with high-fat diets is responsible for a loss of pleasure from food. Researchers from the University of California-Berkeley say they may have … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Medscape) – A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver produced bile and porcine albumin, maintained stable blood flow, and … Read More
March 28, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, hoping to figure out a business model later. That business model never arrives, the company goes under, and the … Read More
March 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends. Just months ago, a boom in data center construction … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has “a possible link” to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have sickened more than 370, the state health department said … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – When recipients signed up in two states at once, insurers often got paid by both; ‘it definitely is wasteful’ Health insurers got double-paid by the Medicaid system for the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A small Italian newspaper is using artificial intelligence to produce its newest edition as part of an experiment it says is designed to sound the alarm about the future of journalism. Foglio AI is the … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Axios) – AI-powered medical transcription tools are alleviating clinician burnout but not yet saving practices money or making care more efficient, according to a report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute. Why it matters: AI scribes that can securely transcribe … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Vox) – Wait, what is a friend anyway? Can you truly be friends with a chatbot? If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In a Reddit thread a year ago, one user wrote that AI friends … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies committed widespread malpractices, including falsifying documents, to make them more … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product. When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study … Read More
March 26, 2025
(Nature) – Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby. Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs. The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped … Read More
March 26, 2025
(NBC News) – Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too. A Chinese patient is the third person in world … Read More
March 26, 2025
(Science) – Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say From programs designed to detect irregular heartbeats in electrocardiograms to software that tracks eye movements to diagnose autism in children, artificial intelligence (AI) … Read More
March 25, 2025
(Axios) – The demise of 23andMe illustrates the vulnerable state of Americans’ health data, as med tech companies vacuum up more personal information with little regulatory oversight. Why it matters: Fitness trackers, wellness apps, genetic tests and other direct-to-consumer tools … Read More
