September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – The taboo against pork is deeply entrenched in both religious traditions. But the prohibition is not absolute. It has not always been entirely clear whether the religious prohibitions on pigs apply strictly to consumption, and neither … Read More
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one … Read More
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – U.S. health officials have targeted youth vaping in a new campaign amid the high popularity of e-cigarettes used by young people. On Tuesday, the Surgeon General’s office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled its … Read More
September 16, 2025
(USA Today) – About 1 in 6 parents have skipped or delayed vaccinating their children against diseases other than COVID-19 or the flu, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and health care policy nonprofit KFF. The … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. God works in mysterious ways — including through chatbots. At least, that’s what many people seem to think. On religious apps, tens of millions of people … Read More
September 16, 2025
(Nature) – Developers of griefbots say that they help people by allowing them to commune with recreations of the dead, but others say that the technology is fraught with danger. “Saying goodbye to Dadbot was surprisingly hard,” she says. “When … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Wired) – At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases. At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Today, OpenAI’s Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing how people … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows the problem is getting worse and not much is being done about it After months of worsening symptoms, Chesson was diagnosed … Read More
September 15, 2025
(NBC Boston) – Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it’s like. Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of … Read More
September 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Some researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may explain a disturbing trend. In 2023, the most recent year of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 41,000 Americans over 65 died … Read More
September 12, 2025
(UPI) – Researchers analyzed more than 1,000 samples of ovarian fluid from patients undergoing fertility treatment. They compared unfertilized eggs (oocytes) from 62 women who tested positive for THC with a control group who did not use cannabis. The study … Read More
September 12, 2025
(Kaiser Health News) – Black, his 22-year-old patient, had arrived at the hospital after getting shot in the head on March 24, 2019. A week later, he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation — even … Read More
September 12, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency plans to highlight possible links between the shots and accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week. The Food and Drug Administration is examining rare cases … Read More
September 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so significant it has the potential to reshape our grid. Energy consumption by data centers has gone up by 80% from 2020 to 2025 … Read More
September 12, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The trouble with chatbots is not just that they allow students to get away with cheating or that they remove a sense of urgency from academics. The technology has also led students to focus on external results … Read More
September 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid. Millions … Read More
September 11, 2025
(TechCrunch) – California has taken a big step toward regulating AI. SB 243 — a bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users — passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan … Read More
September 11, 2025
(BBC) – Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Wired) – Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Research about the effect on a fetus is sparse; pot has become more potent An analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that cannabis use during pregnancy has risen in … Read More
September 8, 2025
(Vox) – The US eradicated screwworm. Its return could cost America billions. A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in their flesh. The patient … Read More
September 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Some 90,000 cases of Parkinson’s are now diagnosed each year in the United States, about one every six minutes on average. It is the world’s fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease, causing tremors, stiffness and balance problems. It is … Read More
September 8, 2025
(Wired) – Research into whether drugs like ayahuasca can mitigate the effects of traumatic brain injury is in its infancy. Pro athletes like the Buffalo Bills’ Jordan Poyer are forging ahead anyway. Among Psychedelic Science 2025’s keynote talks was “Healing … Read More
September 8, 2025
(Endgadget via Yahoo!) – Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, according to a report by The Washington Post. Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe … Read More
