April 17, 2025
(New York Times) – Eli Lilly said clinical results of its GLP-1 in pill form showed safety and efficacy data similar to blockbuster injectable drugs. The drug, orforglipron, is a GLP-1, a class of drugs that have become blockbusters because … Read More
April 17, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Nearly 1 in 3 dementia cases linked with audiometric hearing loss, study suggests The findings mean that “up to 32% of population-level dementia risk could potentially be delayed or prevented if we completely treated hearing loss, assuming … Read More
April 16, 2025
(Vox) – Omalizumab, sold as Xolair, is an asthma medication that was approved more than 20 years ago, but it has proven successful in treating seasonal allergies in recent preliminary trials. So successful, in fact, that now some doctors in … Read More
April 16, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Decision follows a yearslong legal battle over protections for women and female-only spaces Britain’s top court ruled only those born female can be considered women, a landmark judgment that excludes transgender women from the legal definition … Read More
April 16, 2025
(CBS News) – A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s work group on COVID-19 vaccines now supports ending the agency’s pandemic-era recommendation for virtually all Americans to get vaccinated against the virus each year, officials said Tuesday. … Read More
April 16, 2025
(The New Atlantis) – As with so many other scientific controversies in our political life, public opinion on Covid origins has come to track — and serve as a signifier for — partisan identity. This bodes ill for dispassionate investigation, … Read More
April 16, 2025
(Undark) – For some patients, removing brain tissue can help treat OCD and other disorders. But ethical concerns remain. Originally known as psychosurgery, this uncommon approach to mental health care involves operating on the brain to alter its function. After … Read More
April 16, 2025
(The Guardian) – NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Mass General Brigham officials say the hospital hasn’t found any “environmental risk” behind these cases, though the nurses’ union is still conducting its own investigation. Something strange could be happening at a Massachusetts hospital. At least six employees … Read More
April 15, 2025
(New York Times) – The numbers raise concerns about the risk of genetic anomalies as those children eventually seek partners and give birth. Somewhere in the Netherlands, there are men who have unknowingly fathered dozens of children through sperm donation. … Read More
April 15, 2025
(New York Times) – In the first clinical trial of its kind, an A.I. chatbot eased mental health symptoms among participants. The technology may someday help solve the provider shortage. Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its … Read More
April 15, 2025
(NBC News) – One in 31 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by their 8th birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. The finding, based on an analysis of medical records from … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Quanta) – Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools. Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on … Read More
April 15, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Phones and screens play an important role in the show. At home, Jaime, the 13-year-old accused killer, has a computer in his room, which his middle-class father was proud to be able to give him. At school, … Read More
April 15, 2025
(USA Today) – Editor’s note: This article discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. Awuah-Darko, a 28-year-old British-Ghanaian artist, has documented his battle with treatment-resistant bipolar … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Wired) – Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current … Read More
April 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause. Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of … Read More
April 14, 2025
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims. The world’s largest online retailer tested a program, called Project Pulse, as … Read More
April 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties Our exchange raises a troubling question: Are long-Covid patients’ cognitive symptoms getting better or regressing? And are those patients being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, or … Read More
April 14, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it. As time passed, Swanson began to grow uneasy. He and his colleagues … Read More
April 14, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Studies show psychological strain can accelerate tumors — could beta blockers slow them down? Most researchers now reject the idea of a cancer-prone personality. But they still haven’t settled what influence stress and other psychological factors can … Read More
April 14, 2025
(ProPublica) – Reporting Highlights: Shortchanged: Blue Cross Louisiana OK’d mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital’s full bills. For some claims, it paid nothing. Exceptions: Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures … Read More
April 11, 2025
(Associated Press) – An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the … Read More
April 11, 2025
(Slate) – We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger. What we’re really looking at, it seems, are gray wolves modified to be dire wolves of George R.R. Martin’s books rather … Read More
April 11, 2025
(New York Times) – A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in … Read More
