June 12, 2024
(KFF News) – Marketing by e-cigarette companies, touting the allure of fruity or candy-like flavors and names, led many teens to try vaping. As more high schoolers and younger kids experimented with e-cigarettes, physicians and researchers warned it could lead … Read More
June 12, 2024
(Axios) – Florida’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults are unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Why it matters: The decision lifts restrictions for transgender adults and overturns a ban on trans children … Read More
June 12, 2024
(Wired) – Victor Miller is running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an unusual campaign promise: If elected, he will not be calling the shots—an AI bot will. VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. … Read More
June 12, 2024
(Android Authority) – Speaking with Mr. Astray, we learned his intentions behind submitting his photo to an AI photo contest. It’s pretty much what you’d expect: “Of course, I feel bad about leading the jury astray, but I think that … Read More
June 12, 2024
(New York Times) – Southern Baptists, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted on Wednesday to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization. The vote was an indication that ordinary evangelicals are increasingly open to arguments that equate embryos with human … Read More
June 11, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Both semaglutide (sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) were initially developed for diabetes and then repurposed for weight loss. But they apparently can do so much more than that. Studies … Read More
June 11, 2024
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income populations accusing the federal government of shortchanging them on Medicare funding by about $1.5 billion per year. The hospitals, located … Read More
June 11, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Moderna’s combined coronavirus-influenza shot produced a higher immune response in older adults than separate vaccines for those viruses administered together, according to data the company released Monday. The promising results from clinical trials, which have … Read More
June 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Apple on Monday unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” a systemwide update to software on its devices that the company said could offer a personalized version of generative artificial intelligence to users. The new AI system offered a preview … Read More
June 11, 2024
(Wired) – As police departments look to expand their use of unmanned aerial aircraft, no agency has embraced the technology quite like the CVPD. A model for police departments around the United States, “some police officers joke that visiting the … Read More
June 10, 2024
(New York Times) – In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents’ personal or living space, rummage through others’ possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push. Or … Read More
June 10, 2024
(The Telegraph via Yahoo! News) – A brain-zapping treatment for binge-eaters that can be carried out at home has helped people lose more than half a stone in just six weeks. The technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation, fires a … Read More
June 10, 2024
(NPR) – Beauty pageant contestants have always been judged by their looks, and, in recent decades, by their do-gooderly deeds and winning personalities. Still, one thing that’s remained consistent throughout beauty pageant history is that you had to be a … Read More
June 10, 2024
(Washington Post) – The drugs in short supply include chemotherapy agents, antibiotics, medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and pain medications. There are also shortages of medications used in hospital crash carts, the self-contained mobile units in hospitals used to perform lifesaving … Read More
June 10, 2024
(The Guardian) – A combined flu and coronavirus vaccine brings about a higher immune response to both diseases than when the vaccines are administered separately, a clinical trial has shown. Moderna, the biotech firm behind the Spikevax vaccine used in … Read More
June 10, 2024
(New York Times) – A committee of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Monday that the benefits outweigh the risks of the newest experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s afflicts more than six million Americans. … Read More
June 10, 2024
(BBC) – A special type of fluorescent dye might help surgeons better locate and remove prostate cancer cells, UK scientists from University of Oxford believe. Getting rid of all of the cancer is vital to cut the risk of it … Read More
June 7, 2024
(New York Times) – The American Cancer Society has begun an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite high rates of cancer and cancer-related deaths: Black women. The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, … Read More
June 7, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Deciding what to do with the leftovers can be surprisingly emotional and morally thorny; even those who are not religious or who support reproductive autonomy might still feel a sense of responsibility for their embryos. So some … Read More
June 7, 2024
(Axios) – Demoralized doctors and nurses are leaving the field, hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their employers. Why it matters: Dire forecasts of … Read More
June 7, 2024
(Harvard Medical School) – Three out of four adults in the U.S. support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child’s likelihood of developing certain health conditions influenced by multiple genes — such as diabetes, heart disease, and depression … Read More
June 6, 2024
(Washington Post) – As AI-generated images spread across entertainment, marketing, social media and other industries that shape cultural norms, The Washington Post set out to understand how this technology defines one of society’s most indelible standards: female beauty. Using dozens … Read More
June 6, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – The uptick in aggressive, late-stage cancers since the dawn of the pandemic is confirmed by some early national data and a number of large cancer institutions. Many experts have mostly dismissed the trend as an … Read More
June 6, 2024
(The Guardian) – Once upon a time, it was only hardcore bodybuilders who pumped themselves up with testosterone. Today it is no longer niche. But how dangerous is it? A decade or two ago, it would have been unlikely a … Read More
May 29, 2024
(NPR) – Antibiotics cannot cure COVID. They don’t help a bit. And yet, new data shows that, during the pandemic, COVID patients were given antibiotics – a lot of antibiotics. That’s bad because the overuse of antibiotics can breed superbugs … Read More
