April 24, 2024
(People) – Berger and Hardy are one of the nine couples who filed a joint lawsuit on Tuesday, April 23, obtained by PEOPLE, against IVF provider Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach, alleging its clinic destroyed their embryos. The filing claims … Read More
April 24, 2024
(CNBC) – UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try and protect patient data, following the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The company also confirmed that files containing personal information were compromised in … Read More
April 24, 2024
(Associated Press) – Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure left … Read More
April 24, 2024
(Generation Tech) – When discussing age and suicide, it’s become near-gospel to note that suicide rates are highest among the middle-aged. “Suicide rates highest among middle-aged men,” read the headline of a 2017 NBC News article. The website for the … Read More
April 24, 2024
(Platformer) – On Tuesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass an aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan that also includes a measure to force the divestment of TikTok. Observers expect final passage of the bill sometime in the next … Read More
April 23, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent … Read More
April 23, 2024
(ABC News) – Haiti’s health system has long been fragile, but it’s now nearing total collapse after gangs launched coordinated attacks on Feb. 29, targeting critical infrastructure in the capital and beyond. The violence has forced several medical institutions and … Read More
April 23, 2024
(Axios) – The Supreme Court this week will consider whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s strict abortion ban. Why it matters: The case justices will hear Wednesday focuses on a key Biden administration effort … Read More
April 23, 2024
(ABC News) – The U.S. faces a dire kidney organ shortage, meaning patients with kidney failure must meet certain criteria to be considered good candidates for a transplant. One of those considerations is a test called the “eGFR” calculation, which … Read More
April 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Now, new A.I. technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can … Read More
April 22, 2024
(NPR) – When drug company reps visit doctors, it usually includes lunch or dinner and a conversation about a new drug. These direct-to-physician marketing interactions are tracked as payments in a public database, and a new study shows the meetings … Read More
April 22, 2024
(New York Times) – Twenty-three top Chinese swimmers tested positive for the same powerful banned substance seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 but were allowed to escape public scrutiny and continue to compete after top Chinese officials … Read More
April 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, … Read More
April 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Psychedelics are beginning to find some adherents beyond Silicon Valley who say the drugs make them better at their jobs by expanding imaginations or taming doubts about their abilities, though supporting research is limited. The Food … Read More
April 22, 2024
(Axios) – There are growing efforts in medicine to correct a major blind spot: women’s pain. Why it matters: The impact of social media testimonies and a greater systemic focus on women’s health are helping drive a shift in how … Read More
April 19, 2024
(ABC News via MSN) – Heat-related emergency room visits increased in 2023 in the U.S. compared to previous years, according to new federal data. Between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023, there were a total of 119,605 ER visits … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Associated Press) – The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries scrambling to contain epidemics. … Read More
April 19, 2024
(BBC) – Sammy [not her real name] is an unlikely drug trafficker. She is one of what international law enforcement agencies estimate could be thousands of online sales representatives, working for illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling … Read More
April 19, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Most of the companies working in this space have the same goal: capturing enough information from the brain to decipher the user’s intention. The idea is to aid communication for people who can’t easily move or … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Congress is fast-tracking a bipartisan effort to crack down on TikTok that could lead to passage of a law this month forcing a sale or eventual ban of the popular Chinese-controlled app in the U.S. The … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The friends and influencers on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube talking up drugs for weight loss aren’t always giving the full story. Social media is displacing physicians as the trusted authorities on whether patients should take one … Read More
April 18, 2024
(Axios) – Even states that made progress narrowing racial and ethnic health disparities have considerable gaps on access, outcomes and quality of care, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds. The big picture: Black and Native Americans are much likelier to … Read More
April 18, 2024
(Wired) – It seems as though we’ve arrived at the moment in the AI hype cycle where no idea is too bonkers to launch. This week’s eyebrow-raising AI project is a new twist on the romantic chatbot—a mobile app called … Read More
April 18, 2024
(New York Times) – The W.H.O.’s previous stance was that only a handful of pathogens — those that travel in small droplets and spread across long distances, like tuberculosis — could be considered airborne. But the new report suggests broader … Read More
April 18, 2024
(New York Times) – With the advent of consumer neurotechnologies, the data being collected is becoming ever more intimate. One headband serves as a personal meditation coach by monitoring the user’s brain activity. Another purports to help treat anxiety and … Read More
