March 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Texas state health officials said Tuesday there were 20 new cases of measles since last week, bringing the total to 279 across 11 counties — most in West Texas. Two more people were hospitalized, for a total … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The tragedy of people suffering and dying alone is one of the enduring and unaddressed traumas of the pandemic. During early surges, we restricted visits to stop COVID from spreading. Yet even when the number of infections … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Times) – More than 250 GPs signed a letter saying their views had been misrepresented after the Royal College of GPs softened its stance on assisted dying Doctors have accused the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) of “grossly misrepresenting” … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Associated Press) – Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting in morning trading. The young man died of acute liver injury, a known side effect, … Read More
March 18, 2025
(WTOP News) – A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th-century slave law. … Read More
March 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Kratom, which originates from the leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia, is also touted for helping relieve pain and opioid withdrawal symptoms. But it can have wide-ranging mental and bodily effects, according to the … Read More
March 18, 2025
(NPR) – More and more people, like Morris, are facing the heightened emotions and challenging logistics of parenting with cancer. Cancer is spiking at alarming rates, especially among women under age 50. What was once predominantly an older person’s disease … Read More
March 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said. Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – Ms. Delano is not a doctor; her main qualification, she likes to say, is having been “a professional psychiatric patient between the ages of 13 and 27.” During those years, when she attended Harvard and was … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives. Perhaps the biggest lesson learned, several experts said, is that recommendations during any … Read More
March 17, 2025
(Associated Press) – It’s the most visible sign of AI’s inroads into health care, where hundreds of hospitals are using increasingly sophisticated computer programs to monitor patients’ vital signs, flag emergency situations and trigger step-by-step action plans for care — … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – THE TELEPHONE CALL that interrupted Brendan’s death was about extending lives, though not his. Just as he had planned. The caller was from LiveOnNY, the nonprofit organization federally designated to coordinate organ donations in the New … Read More
March 17, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice. Kahneman was one of the world’s most … Read More
March 17, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The swift rise in diagnoses for everything from autism to ADHD may be doing more harm than good. What all of these diagnoses have in common is that they all have a severe form with a … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Psychiatrists and primary-care doctors regularly prescribe the drugs for everything from mild anxiety to insomnia, making benzodiazepines some of the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications in America. The pills’ omnipresence has left a mark on pop … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, reaching the highest … Read More
March 14, 2025
(New York Times) – A new study found that fair prices for medications like Wegovy and Zepbound would be hundreds less per month than they are now. It’s easy to make a medical case for blockbuster weight loss drugs like … Read More
March 14, 2025
(NPR) – Five years after the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and the Trump administration announced a national emergency, the United States faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, and one that is below its projected need for an … Read More
March 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Axios) – As teen tobacco use experiences historic declines, new evidence suggests vaping is giving kids the same level of nicotine exposure. Why it matters: The findings could undercut arguments that vaping and e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity. Perhaps no country was as deeply reshaped by the pandemic as China, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wired) – Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too. In a series of demonstration videos, the company showed several robots equipped with the … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hims and other telehealth firms make finasteride easy to get and don’t have to disclose side effects in ads Finasteride, the generic name for Propecia, is a popular hair-loss treatment that has been on the market … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work Altogether, editors at nearly 40 journals have quit in the past decade over differences with their publishers, according to … Read More
