June 25, 2024
(Axios) – Youth mental health has begun to improve after major pandemic dips, new data shows. Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare students’ struggles as well as a fractured system to help them navigate recovery. Some of the recovery, though, trails pre-pandemic mental … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Axios) – Addressing America’s gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in an advisory Tuesday. Why it matters: The surgeon general’s advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public’s attention to a … Read More
June 25, 2024
(BBC) – A boy with severe epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to trial a new device fitted in their skull to control seizures. The neurostimulator, which sends electrical signals deep into his brain, has reduced Oran … Read More
June 25, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Studies have concluded that suicide is unusually common among farmers. Researchers believe it’s not just because many farmers have other risk factors, such as rural addresses and access to guns. The tragic trend has caught the attention of the U.S. … Read More
June 25, 2024
(CBS News) – Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, felt no pain during the May 24 procedure and was discharged the … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Australia Broadcasting Corp.) – “People need to know … this is the company you’re getting into bed with. One in every 18 births in Australia is now a result of IVF. It’s a multi-million-dollar industry creating ‘miracle babies’. But when … Read More
June 24, 2024
(ABC News) – In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows. The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant … Read More
June 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Regions that had “extremely high” rates of such illnesses included swaths of New England, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic, all areas that have been hit the hardest by the heat wave. Heat-related emergency room visits spiked … Read More
June 24, 2024
(Axios) – America has become much more aware of the health risks facing new mothers, but the health care system is still trying to catch up. Why it matters: More than half of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States occur up to one … Read More
June 24, 2024
(Axios) – Texas doctors don’t need to wait until a pregnant person is at risk of death to provide them an abortion, per new guidance from the Texas Medical Board. Why it matters: Texas law prohibits performing an abortion, offering exemptions … Read More
June 24, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Cannabis use was significantly associated with a greater risk of severe outcomes following a COVID-19 infection, according to a retrospective study that spanned the first 2 years of the pandemic. Among more than 70,000 patients with a … Read More
June 24, 2024
(New York Times) – The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a Tennessee law that bans certain medical treatments for transgender minors, the first time the justices will decide on the constitutionality of such statewide bans. The move could … Read More
June 24, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers at the American Diabetes Association conference in Orlando are expected to present data on 27 GLP-1 drugs in development. Others target a different hormone. The next wave of obesity drugs is coming soon. Drug companies are … Read More
June 21, 2024
(WBUR) – British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass led a highly anticipated independent scientific review of gender health services for children in England, commissioned by the National Health Service. Now popularly known as the ‘Cass Review,’ it concludes for most young … Read More
June 21, 2024
(New York Times) – Americans are paying too much for prescription drugs. It is a common, longstanding complaint. And the culprits seem obvious: Drug companies. Insurers. A dysfunctional federal government. But there is another collection of powerful forces that often … Read More
June 21, 2024
(The Verge) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed two bills into law on Thursday that aim to protect kids and teens from social media harms, making it the latest state to take action as federal proposals still await … Read More
June 20, 2024
(New York Times) – In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway. The lab, about two-thirds the size of a football field, is a data … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Done Global, the online healthcare company that saw two executives arrested last week, issued a statement this week assuring patients it will do its best to continue operations despite the federal indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice. The executives … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Associated Press) – Overall in Kenya, about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year while 7,000 others experience paralysis or other health complications, according to the local Institute of Primate Research. Residents fear the problem is growing. As the forests around them shrink due to … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Findings align with undisclosed internal research at Meta, which has pledged an ‘age-appropriate’ experience for teens; company says testing isn’t representative of their experience. Instagram regularly recommends sexual videos to accounts for teenagers that appear interested … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Psychology Today) – Every year in the United States more than 11,000 people die while waiting for transplantable organs. Although efforts have been made to transplant genetically modified pig organs into humans, the practice is not yet widespread nor are outcomes magnificent. To save … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Daily Mail) – A cyberattack on a major American hospital system has caused dangerous medication mix ups including patients administered narcotics by mistake, leading to an admission to intensive care for life-threatening breathing difficulties. In another case, a female patient … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Wired) – Extremists across the US have weaponized artificial intelligence tools to help them spread hate speech more efficiently, recruit new members, and radicalize online supporters at an unprecedented speed and scale, according to a new report from the Middle East Media … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Vox) – But there was another major question looming over Lykos (previously known as MAPS public benefit corporation, the biggest force pushing psychedelics toward legalization over the past few decades). It’s a question that had begun to bubble up in the news and which … Read More
June 20, 2024
(New York Times) – South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens that it provides to people with diabetes, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to blockbuster weight-loss drugs that use a similar … Read More
