July 30, 2024
(ABC News) – Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say. … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – What if your entire economy was based on one product? TV commercials joke that America runs on Dunkin’, but for all intents and purposes, Denmark quite literally runs on Ozempic, a diabetes medication that is now widely used … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Axios) – The Biden administration is overhauling its health IT bureaucracy to address the proliferation of cyberattacks on the sector and the growth of data and artificial intelligence in medical settings. Why it matters: The goals include setting an AI … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Reuters) – At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy – and reveal how drug traffickers are … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes reveals that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the … Read More
July 26, 2024
(NPR) – As an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, Ada Yee has lent a helping hand in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones: Syria, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti. Then she came to Darfur, Western … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Washington Post) – More Americans are learning of devastating health diagnoses through their phones and computers instead of personally from their doctors because of a federal requirement that people receive immediate access to medical test and scan results, from routine … Read More
July 26, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for emerging pathogens. The … Read More
July 26, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a … Read More
July 26, 2024
(MedPage Today) – A seventh patient has achieved sustained HIV remission after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to a new case report. What is especially notable about this patient is that he received a transplant with a single, rather … Read More
July 26, 2024
(New York Times) – In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers. While the United States has had a head start on … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Wired) – A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch. Parisians are still grumbling about road closures and bike lanes that abruptly end without warning, while … Read More
July 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A cavernous factory in northeastern Tennessee, by the Virginia border, is one of the last in the country that makes a vitally important medicine. Each day the USAntibiotics plant churns out a million doses of the … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Undark) – Few experts dispute that long Covid can be debilitating, or that it warrants careful study. But in interviews with Undark, a number of experts said that it is misleading to frame long Covid as an increasing threat. The … Read More
July 25, 2024
(STAT News) – UnitedHealth Group started out as a small, Minnesota health insurance company and has since morphed into a modern-day Standard Oil, exerting unmatched dominance over health care in the United States. It’s no secret that UnitedHealth is a … Read More
July 25, 2024
(CNN) – After a handful of Australian water polo players tested positive for Covid-19 this week, questions have emerged around how the spread of the disease will be mitigated at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Five players on Australia’s … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Axios) – Congress’ boldest effort to date to crack down on social media platforms and protect kids’ mental health is stoking a debate over whether the remedy could end up making youths less safe. Why it matters: Curbing sources of … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Wired) – The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies. The northern hemisphere is entering yet another Covid wave—while much of the world acts as if the pandemic were over, … Read More
July 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging … Read More
July 24, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed doctors in the state. Mifepristone and misoprostol have many … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Nature) – Training artificial intelligence (AI) models on AI-generated text quickly leads to the models churning out nonsense, a study has found. This cannibalistic phenomenon, termed model collapse, could halt the improvement of large language models (LLMs) as they run … Read More
July 24, 2024
(ABC News) – Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Reuters) – Colorado began requiring dairies to test milk supplies for bird flu every week, the state’s veterinarian told Reuters on Tuesday, as a federal team arrived to help investigate an escalating outbreak in cows that has spread to chickens … Read More
July 24, 2024
(CBC News) – Nearly 45,000 Canadians died through MAID between 2016, the year it became legal in Canada, and 2022. It has been widely discussed and debated, and continues to be controversial, especially as eligibility has expanded. But an often … Read More
July 23, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Novo Nordisk and Lilly lump the compounders together with internet cowboys and unregulated medical spas peddling bogus semaglutide, and have high-powered legal teams trying to stop them. Novo Nordisk has filed at least 21 lawsuits nationwide … Read More
