April 29, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In Starr County, Texas, near the state’s southern tip along the U.S.-Mexico border, escaping dementia can feel impossible. The condition affects about one in five adults on Medicare—more than double the national rate. “Everybody has somebody in … Read More
April 29, 2025
(New York Post via MSN) – Nearly 11% of women who have taken a chemical abortion pill in recent years have experienced a serious adverse health event — such as infection, hemorrhage or sepsis — according to a report from … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine. These chemicals, known … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent future Microsoft turbocharged the artificial-intelligence startup’s growth over the past six years with billions of dollars … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wired) – Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist. When Italian philosopher and essayist Andrea Colamedici released Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Xiaomi collision intensifies regulatory scrutiny as U.S., China compete over driver-assistance technology As Tesla and other automakers have touted their assisted-driving systems with terms such as “autonomous” and “self-driving,” one deadly crash last month involving the technology has … Read More
April 29, 2025
(GQ) – (Editor’s note: Content warning) What’s really happening under the laser during tattoo removal is much more complex and elegant than it literally sounds (and smells). These days, the best-in-class lasers for the procedure are five-to-six-figure picosecond laser machines, … Read More
April 28, 2025
(New York Times) – For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results. In 49 of the patients, who had rectal cancer, the tumors … Read More
April 28, 2025
(The Cut) – In 2016, 34-year-old Playboy model Katie May received a cervical adjustment, then suffered a fatal stroke; the Los Angeles County coroner determined her death was caused by the chiropractic visit. In 2022, 28-year-old Georgia resident Caitlin Jensen reportedly suffered a VAD and stroke … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. The key to preventing disasters like this is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks … Read More
April 28, 2025
(GQ) – Scroll through Reddit, and you’ll find post after post written by people claiming that a single gummy left them in a permanent state of anxiety, with recurring panic attacks, a feeling of dissociation that won’t fade, or unbearable physical symptoms. One night, … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Federal regulators are asking Novavax to complete an additional randomized clinical trial on its Covid-19 vaccine after previously delaying approval, people familiar with the matter said, a request that could be so prohibitively expensive the company … Read More
April 25, 2025
(New York Times) – The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world. After an outcry from scientists and experts, federal officials on Thursday said they would restore funding to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Many people recover from a bout of flu within a few days or a week. But every year, the virus still kills more than 36,000 people across the United States and sends hundreds of thousands to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Nature) – Trials of treatments for Parkinson’s disease often show improvements of two or three points on the movement scale, but that doesn’t make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, he explains. Six points is clinically significant. “It’s quite something … Read More
April 25, 2025
(The Atlantic) – I’ve spent recent weeks speaking with scientists and executives at universities, major companies, and research institutions—including Pfizer, Moderna, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—in an attempt to understand what the technology can (and cannot) do to … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Science) – Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic It took an extension to the extension of the extension, but after more than 3 years of negotiations, governments around … Read More
April 24, 2025
(NPR) – Men over 75 have the highest suicide rates in the U.S. There are many reasons for this, says Mary Gagnon, director of suicide prevention at NAMI Maine, a mental health nonprofit. Among them are loss, sickness and the … Read More
April 24, 2025
(NBC News) – Attorney General Pam Bondi said existing U.S. laws against female genital mutilation prohibit doctors from providing certain care to transgender youths. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo this week seeking to further curtail access to transgender … Read More
April 24, 2025
(The Guardian) – In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure, offering relief and comfort to patients and their families The way we die is a topic of a heated debate in … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Axios) – Food and Drug Administration databases that physicians and public health experts rely on for key drug safety and manufacturing information have been neglected due to DOGE-directed layoffs, leaving health professionals flying blind on basic questions about certain drugs … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers found mixtures of multiple additives may raise risk of diabetes; food industry groups back ingredients’ safety Food additives might be riskier for health than previously understood, a new study suggests. In recent years, scientists have … Read More
April 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Social and economic challenges have prompted some women to forgo or delay having children Births in America hovered near record-low rates last year. More than 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2024—a less … Read More
April 23, 2025
(Axios) – Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company’s top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. Why it matters: Managing those AI identities will require companies to reassess … Read More
April 23, 2025
(ProPublica) – China’s vast security apparatus shrouds itself in shadows, but the outside world has caught periodic glimpses of it behind the faded gray walls of Shijiazhuang prison in the northern province of Hebei. Chinese media reports have shown inmates … Read More
