May 11, 2026
(NBC News) – The deadly cruise ship outbreak of hantavirus, a rare, rodent-borne illness, may have evoked some memories of the early days of COVID-19 — but infectious disease specialists and public health officials say there are clear differences in this case … Read More
May 11, 2026
(NYT) – That interstitial spaces exist in and under the skin and between and around the body’s organs had been observed going back more than a century, but they were assumed to exist in isolation from one another, like a … Read More
May 11, 2026
(Wired) – These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned. Consumer groups argue that AI toys, in the form of soft teddy bears, bunnies, sunflowers, creatures, and kid-friendly “robots,” … Read More
May 11, 2026
(WSJ) – The April call, which followed a White House briefing that played a role in sparking Vance’s concern over the latest AI model capabilities, set in motion a chaotic administration response to Mythos that threatens to increase government oversight … Read More
May 11, 2026
(AP) – Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that’s moored across the ocean comes … Read More
May 8, 2026
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – They arrive in cheerful bottles with names that sound like promises – Daily Brain Boost, Brain Drive, Brain guard+. And Americans, in turn, spend billions of dollars each year chasing the idea of a sharper … Read More
May 8, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Tech advances not only made IVF safer and more effective; they fundamentally changed the way we think about our reproduction. In recent years, we’ve had reports of babies born with DNA from three people, babies born … Read More
May 8, 2026
(WSJ) – New study shows many of the influencers sharing health advice online are coaches or entrepreneurs A new study of health and wellness influencers found that nearly as many say they are coaches or entrepreneurs as say they are … Read More
May 7, 2026
(NYT) – With cutting-edge sports medicine and sci-fi gadgetry, more and more athletes are figuring out how to extend their careers. All pro athletes eventually reckon with their sports mortality and shift into career-extension mode, but that shift is happening … Read More
May 7, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Automation, AI, and screening technologies are already transforming reproductive medicine. Reproduction is complex, and there’s a lot that embryologists and gynecologists still don’t know and can’t control. They don’t know why many healthy-looking embryos don’t “stick” … Read More
May 6, 2026
(ProPublica) – Their autopsies, which took place over the last several years, all came to the same conclusion: The deaths were caused, in whole or in part, by a rare but potentially fatal condition known as vitamin K deficiency bleeding. … Read More
May 6, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the Pennsylvania Department of State … Read More
May 6, 2026
(TechCrunch) – Meta will start using AI to scan photos and videos for visual clues to see if a user is under 13 and should be removed from Facebook and Instagram, the company announced on Tuesday. These visual clues include … Read More
May 6, 2026
(CNN) – The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius departed Cape Verde for Tenerife on Wednesday, as authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus. The journey from the archipelago nation off Africa’s west coast … Read More
May 5, 2026
(The Atlantic) – he bad news is that software now purports to glean insights into the depths and vagaries of human emotion using AI, and it is coming to watch you. If it isn’t already: Morphcast, for example, has licensed … Read More
May 5, 2026
(WSJ) – OpenAI’s chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene. Last spring, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner wanted to know how many classmates he needed to … Read More
May 5, 2026
(Tech Crunch) – Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home … Read More
May 5, 2026
(NYT) – A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone. The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NBC News) – By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it’s often too late to treat effectively. But a new study suggests that artificial intelligence might be able to find signs of the disease before tumors are visible on a … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NYT) – Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily. Within a few years of that, Ms. Lawson could utter only a string of unintelligible sounds and had lost … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – “So for a long time, we have been trying to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis easier, cheaper, and quicker,” says Alfred Andama, a microbiologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. That desire was fulfilled last … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Wired) – “I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month. Emergency first-responder leaders told federal regulators in a private … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a … Read More
