June 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, … Read More
June 10, 2025
(ABC News) – Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill passed Monday in the state Legislature. The proposal, which now moves to the governor’s office, would allow … Read More
June 10, 2025
(Wired) – Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects. Outro officially launched in the US last month and is currently available in seven states, including California and … Read More
June 10, 2025
(Wired) – NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence has … Read More
June 10, 2025
(Wired) – As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles. On Tuesday, the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the … Read More
June 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – “As a geriatrician, it gives me pause,” Han said. “Our brains are more sensitive to psychoactive substances as we age.” Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia now allow cannabis use for medical reasons, and in … Read More
June 9, 2025
(Washington Post) – For years, people have flown to clinics in Mexico to take ibogaine, the extract of an ancient African shrub that induces mind-bending hallucinations. Under medical supervision, patients undergo psychedelic trips that can last more than a dozen … Read More
June 9, 2025
(New York Times) – OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education … Read More
June 9, 2025
(New York Times) – Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about. Today, that panel checks for unusual bio-markers that may indicate a rare but treatable disease like … Read More
June 9, 2025
(Wired) – A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients. Four years ago, an unconscious Kentucky man began to awaken as he was about to be removed from life support … Read More
June 6, 2025
(The Spectator) – The hospice movement is one of the great achievements of post-war Britain. Inspired by the doctor Cicely Saunders, who in effect founded the field of palliative care, it has united cutting-edge research with a profound understanding of … Read More
June 3, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Sir Tony Blair has urged Britain to embrace AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was ‘in the foothills’ of the biggest tranformation since the Industrial Revolution. The former prime minister claimed AI could have … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Daily Mail) — A controversial amendment allowing assisted suicide is making its way through the Illinois state legislature as representatives snuck the measure into a bill on sanitary food preparation. Illinois House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, a Democrat representing Evanston, … Read More
May 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely counters Mr. … Read More
May 30, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said … Read More
May 30, 2025
(NPR) – The nasal spray contains an experimental monoclonal antibody meant to reduce the Alzheimer’s-related inflammation in Walsh’s brain. He is the first person living with Alzheimer’s to get the treatment, which is also being tested in people with diseases … Read More
May 28, 2025
(The Guardian) – Robert F Kennedy Jr has threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, which he branded “corrupt”, and to instead create alternative publications run by the state. “We’re probably going to stop … Read More
May 28, 2025
(NBC News) – Most people who take dietary or herbal supplements do so on their own, not under a doctor’s advice. From 1995 through 2020, supplement-related liver failure requiring U.S. patients to be waitlisted for transplants increased eightfold, according to … Read More
May 28, 2025
(UPI) – France’s National Assembly approved a measure that would legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia if signed into law. The French lawmakers passed the measure, dubbed the “right to die” law, on a 305-199 vote during the measure’s first reading … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of … Read More
May 28, 2025
(NPR) – A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These conditions are informed by many genetic variants and environmental factors … Read More
May 28, 2025
(BBC) – “When we arrived, the miscarriage had already started.” One of their twins was stillborn and the other died a few hours after birth. Mohamed says there were no incubators for premature babies available. “Everything was gone in a … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Financial Times) – Innovators are rolling out products aimed at relieving understaffing by automating mundane tasks Robots have assisted surgeons for decades, but now they are being deployed to new areas of US hospitals as the healthcare industry grapples with … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Axios) – President Trump’s imminent plans to issue a White House report promoting in vitro fertilization has spurred anti-abortion conservatives to call for new guardrails that could greatly limit the use of the treatment. Why it matters: Medical groups and … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Forbes) – Remember COVID-19? That illness that’s killed around 350 people a week in the United States over the past month and continues to leave more and more people with long COVID? Remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 … Read More
