December 12, 2025
(ProPublica) – Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall. The Food and Drug Administration … Read More
December 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. To treat their pain, anxiety and sleep problems, millions of Americans turn … Read More
December 12, 2025
(WSJ) – President wants one federal AI standard advocated by tech companies President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to override state laws on artificial intelligence. The order would allow the Justice Department to punish states with rules … Read More
December 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The company behind that campaign, Nucleus Genomics, says it offers customers a way to select embryos for a range of traits, including height and IQ. It’s an extreme proposition, but it does seem to be growing in … Read More
December 11, 2025
(New York Times) – Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000. Abortion is legal … Read More
December 11, 2025
(The Independent) – When a ‘creepy’ AI startup went viral for its unsettling depiction of a family continuing its relationship with a woman after her death, many called it dystopian. They see it another way — and they’re not the … Read More
December 11, 2025
(The Guardian) – Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery The watches are built and operated by BI Inc, a company specializing in monitoring tech that runs the US government’s largest immigrant … Read More
December 11, 2025
(NBC News) – The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday. As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as … Read More
December 11, 2025
(New York Times) – Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials. A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the … Read More
December 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services It was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Over the past five years, the practice of allowing a physician to help severely ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in nine countries on three continents. Courts or legislatures, or both, are … Read More
December 10, 2025
(CBS News) – Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, including CBS News’ partner network BBC News, has revealed. … Read More
December 10, 2025
(CNN) – A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday. And regulators, parents and teenagers around the globe are watching closely to see how it plays … Read More
December 10, 2025
(Wired) – All told, more than half of Parkinson’s research dollars in the past two decades have flowed toward genetics. But Parkinson’s rates in the US have doubled in the past 30 years. And studies suggest they will climb another … Read More
December 9, 2025
(Seen & Unseen) – Just like the technologies which Arendt envisaged in the 1950s, it is too anthropocentric to think of LLMs as being ‘primarily designed to make human life easier and human ‘work’ less painful’. For sure, this very … Read More
December 9, 2025
(ProPublica) – The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is the story of American health care. I began to focus on the relationship between Phoebe’s breakneck growth and the rates of chronic illnesses among Albany’s residents and wondered whether the … Read More
December 9, 2025
(CBS News) – Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home after her parents say she developed an addiction to a popular AI chatbot platform called Character AI. Parents Cynthia Montoya and Wil Peralta, said … Read More
December 9, 2025
(New York Times) – With the end of school shutdowns, children’s mental health appointments fell sharply, though other factors may have contributed. A study of nearly 200,000 California schoolchildren found that their mental health had improved significantly after schools reopened … Read More
December 9, 2025
(New York Times) – Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. Outside exam rooms and clinics, many medical experts are debating … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance on them. Scientists are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to do their work. Many say the tools are saving them time … Read More
December 8, 2025
(The Guardian) – British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions … Read More
December 5, 2025
(New York Times) – A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule on Friday, voting to end a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at … Read More
December 5, 2025
(Current Affairs) – Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. At San Francisco State University, the provost’s office formally notified … Read More
December 4, 2025
(Wired) – Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. Members of Congress considered 19 online safety … Read More
December 4, 2025
(CNN) – Vaccination is estimated to be more than 90% effective at preventing shingles in older adults, but recent research has shed light on some other potential benefits, too. Emerging research suggests that getting the vaccine to protect against shingles … Read More
