July 30, 2025
(Wired) – Once dismissed as just snoring, sleep apnea is now emerging as an early warning sign for serious conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and depression. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is one of the most common types of apnea, affecting … Read More
July 30, 2025
(Wired) – Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis. More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of … Read More
July 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Ultrapotent nitazenes, mostly from China, are easy to smuggle and mix into heroin, recreational drugs and gray-market pharmaceuticals Fentanyl fueled the worst drug crisis the West has ever seen. Now, an even more dangerous drug is … Read More
July 30, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Nineteen states now ban abortion at or before 19 weeks of gestation; 13 of those have a near-total ban on all abortions with very limited exceptions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan research group that … Read More
July 30, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Ars Technica) – “This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step. Maybe they should change the button to say, “I am a robot”? On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT … Read More
July 29, 2025
(CNN) – Maida’s cognition showed additional improvement, however, after she completed a total of 40 weeks of intensive lifestyle changes, said principal investigator Dr. Dean Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and creator … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Axios) – The Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched an inquiry into whether health providers are failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or are making false claims about its benefits. Why it matters: The action could help make … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Utilities and technology companies are at odds over who should pay for electricity costs in unprecedented data-center build-out Technology companies need an extraordinary amount of electricity to power data centers at the core of the artificial-intelligence … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – At least 16 children under 5 have died of hunger-related causes since mid-July, experts say The Gaza Strip is experiencing famine conditions, a group of global food-insecurity experts said, the most dire assessment of the enclave’s … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Wired) – AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. But ChatGPT and similar programs weren’t just trained on the internet—they were trained … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Washington Post) – The first-of-its-kind wrongful-death lawsuit tests the laws blue states passed to protect abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. A Texas man whose girlfriend used abortion pills to end her pregnancy is suing a … Read More
July 28, 2025
(NPR) – A stockpile of family planning products — including IUDs, implants and pills — worth $9.7 million has been stuck at a warehouse in Belgium since the administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and froze foreign … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores. Will this be the last time humans outperform AI? The famously grueling IMO exam is held over two … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Axios) – The biggest buzz around GLP-1 drugs these days has nothing to do with weight loss. And that might lead to some problems for patients and insurers. The big picture: Blockbuster treatments like Ozempic have been found to lower … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Wired) – Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. Ultimately, though, it’s not … Read More
July 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Therapists are cautious about sharing personal information. When they fall ill or die unexpectedly, the shock can be shattering. Ethics guidelines require psychologists to make preparations in case they become incapacitated or die, appointing an executor … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday systemic weaknesses in the oversight of the global pharmaceutical supply chain have resulted in medicines formulated with poisonous chemicals claiming lives and compromising the health of patients, mainly children. In a … Read More
July 25, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – It has been a grim few months for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. There had been some excitement when, a couple of years ago, a gene therapy for the disorder was approved by the US … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Wired) – A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US. One patient tells WIRED … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – A baby born at only 21 weeks of gestation last July in Iowa City, Iowa, has just celebrated his first birthday, and among his gifts is a Guinness world record for most premature baby. Nash Keen was … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Highly realistic baby dolls have become a global phenomenon, with collectors shelling out for luxury baby gear and doting on their ‘reborns’ as if they were human children When I told a dollmaker that I’ve never … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Associated Press) – “Everyone uses AI for everything now. It’s really taking over,” said Chege, who wonders how AI tools will affect her generation. “I think kids use AI to get out of thinking.” For the past couple of years, … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wired) – In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes. Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration … Read More
July 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Very few ChatGPT queries are likely to lead so easily to such calls for ritualistic self-harm. OpenAI’s own policy states that ChatGPT “must not encourage or enable self-harm.” When I explicitly asked ChatGPT for instructions on how … Read More
