March 9, 2026
(CNBC) – Eli Lilly on Thursday launched a new program designed to help more employers cover obesity drugs in the U.S., targeting a major barrier to access for patients. Lilly and its chief rival, Novo Nordisk, have moved to slash … Read More
March 9, 2026
(The Times) – Documentary maker Rebecca Coxon uploaded her genetic data to an ancestry website on a whim. The results would be just the beginning of a decade questioning everything she thought she knew about family and motherhood But in … Read More
March 9, 2026
(WSJ) – Facing a $100 million revenue gap after federal budget cuts, one California affiliate looks beyond reproductive health to attract a new clientele Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest affiliate of the national abortion provider, is overhauling its business … Read More
March 6, 2026
(Discover) – Now, researchers from Sweden and the U.S. have uncovered molecular and structural changes in some taste buds of patients with taste abnormalities after a COVID-19 infection, offering the first plausible explanation for why a small group of people … Read More
March 6, 2026
(NBC News) – Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care. ChatGPT Health — OpenAI’s new … Read More
March 5, 2026
(NPR) – Prices of common drugs for cancer, multiple sclerosis and other conditions can vary widely depending on the hospital where they’re administered, research firm 3 Axis Advisors said in a new report. Why it matters: Hospital pricing remains opaque, … Read More
March 5, 2026
(Longreads) – Is AI helping prospective parents game the fertility lottery? Should it? The technology is undeniably enticing: to prospective parents struggling to conceive, overworked OB-GYNs, and embryologists who can only do so much by hand. Progressing at a breakneck … Read More
March 5, 2026
(WSJ) – A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. Jonathan Gavalas embarked on several real-world missions … Read More
March 4, 2026
(Forbes) – Major artificial intelligence companies may have age policies in place to restrict the use of their models by children, but that isn’t stopping a growing number of developers from using generative AI chatbots in toys sold globally that … Read More
March 4, 2026
(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday sent 30 telehealth companies warning letters about their “illegal” sales of compounded GLP-1s, building off increasing pressure to tamp down on the sale of these unapproved medications. According to … Read More
March 4, 2026
(The Guardian) – As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to a chatbot ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human Phillips’s district has used Alongside, an automated student monitoring system, for … Read More
March 4, 2026
(PBS) – Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable … Read More
March 3, 2026
(NYTs) – Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent. By Tuesday, the outbreak centered in Spartanburg County had grown to 990 cases, mostly … Read More
March 3, 2026
(Futurism) – And regardless of the wearer’s intention, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are … Read More
March 3, 2026
(The Guardian) – The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human decision-makers could be sidelined. Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was … Read More
March 3, 2026
(Aeon) – One of the more jarring examples is the assassin Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem in the movie No Country for Old Men (2007). Utterly deprived of any emotional resonance, Chigurh wanders through the arid Texas landscape as … Read More
March 3, 2026
(NPR) – Ivermectin is now making a comeback, after its use receded in the waning years of the pandemic. Now, especially in conservative political circles, its reputation keeps growing as a kind of cure-all for various ailments, and even for … Read More
March 3, 2026
(BBC) – Parents using Instagram’s child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform. It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches … Read More
March 2, 2026
(The Guardian) – ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of the AI platform has found, which experts worry could “feasibly lead to unnecessary harm and death”. OpenAI … Read More
March 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Citing rising costs and shortfalls in federal support, about 20 states are toughening eligibility requirements for patients in drug assistance programs. Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 … Read More
March 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Now, scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz are taking lab-grown mini-brains into their toddler era, after demonstrating that brain organoids can process information in real time. In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal … Read More
March 2, 2026
(WSJ) – A blood test that can tell if you have cancer? A flurry of such tests that look for multiple cancers with a prick are in various stages of development. The one that is furthest along, Galleri, was recently … Read More
March 2, 2026
(Wired) – As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, construction is underway on … Read More
February 27, 2026
(AP) – The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost transplants but also raises public confusion, … Read More
February 27, 2026
(Wired) – Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers. Pan and her colleague’ findings suggest that training data may have played a … Read More
