March 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: up to 18 million … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Science) – Innovative trial designs aim to separate participant expectations from drug effects This “functional unblinding” is not unique to psychedelics, but it’s especially pronounced in this drug class. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expressed concern about … Read More
March 3, 2025
(CNN) – As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an opinion piece on Fox News on Sunday that parents should consult with health-care … Read More
March 3, 2025
(KFF Health News) – A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, a shift supporters say could ease physician shortages in rural areas. The changes involve residency programs … Read More
March 3, 2025
(BBC) – More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current conflict. Officials at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), a leading health agency on … Read More
March 3, 2025
(CBS News) – A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a “poisoning of a water source,” according to the World Health Organization. The WHO’s head of emergencies Mike Ryan … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found. Why it matters: Black mothers in the … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Wired) – A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 cases, with 20 hospitalized and one unvaccinated school-age child dead. The outbreak continues to be mainly in unvaccinated … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Half of all pancreatic cancer patients live less than a year after diagnosis. But researchers say there is potential for change. Researchers estimate by 2030 that deaths will overtake those for colorectal cancer, as other cancers … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Wired) – As part of a new $1 billion plan to address bird flu in poultry and lower egg prices across the country, US secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday that the Department of Agriculture is considering vaccinating chickens … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Can genetically modified animals help ease the shortage of organs? After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point — yet risks and ethical issues remain. Over the past few years, a handful … Read More
February 28, 2025
(New York Times) – “This award is being terminated for convenience and the interest of the U.S. government,” they began. The terse notes ended funding for some 5,800 projects that had been financed by the United States Agency for International … Read More
February 27, 2025
(New York Times) – The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over. For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. Its bedrock, … Read More
February 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. … Read More
February 27, 2025
(NBC News) – The virus has also infected nearly 1,000 dairy herds and almost 70 people, including one death, since early 2024. The USDA will spend up to $500 million to provide free biosecurity audits to farms and $400 million … Read More
February 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – While their jobs may be straightforward and menial, these “Digit” robots are a direct replacement for the humans who would otherwise be doing this work. They are also a flexible bridge between the other less versatile automated … Read More
February 26, 2025
(New York Times) – Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine. Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had … Read More
February 26, 2025
(The Guardian) – GenBioPro seeks to defend access to mifepristone in suit brought by attorneys general of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas The manufacturer of the generic version of a major abortion pill has asked to join a federal lawsuit over … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Associated Press) – A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015. The school-aged child had been hospitalized and … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Science) – Barred from the country, researchers try to monitor death and destruction from afar The lab, part of Yale’s School of Public Health, is one of several groups gauging the devastation caused by the brutal civil war in Sudan. … Read More
February 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Research into psilocybin led by the biotech company Compass Pathways has been slowed in part by the complexity of the trials, but the data already shows promise for the psychedelic compound within so-called magic mushrooms. Eventually, … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Gizmodo) – New research out this month showcases the ever-present danger posed by coronaviruses, the family of viruses that gave rise to the covid-19 pandemic. Scientists in China have reportedly found a new coronavirus in bats that may be capable … Read More
February 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators. The nation’s largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots “masquerading” as therapists, … Read More
February 25, 2025
(STAT News) – Two U.S. government agencies that are key players in the World Health Organization-led process to select the flu viruses for next winter’s influenza vaccines are participating in a meeting to discuss the issue, despite the Trump administration’s … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Associated Press) – An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms … Read More
