February 25, 2025
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted its first approval for a pacemaker-like device for the brain to ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which affects nearly 1 million people in the United States. Why it matters: Medtronic, … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Wired) – Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems. Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by exiles from OpenAI, has introduced the first AI model … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Nature) – Armed with an influx of cash and public enthusiasm, researchers are looking to improve how ageing is measured. Mixed feelings of enthusiasm and apprehension were common among researchers who spoke to Nature about efforts to develop tests that … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration has reinstated dozens of specialized employees involved in food safety, review of medical devices and other areas who were laid off last week, according to more than a dozen workers who … Read More
February 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In truth, scientists were both right and wrong about the speed at which SARS-CoV-2 mutates. The rate of mutations as this virus jumps from person to person is indeed unimpressive. But scientists were not aware of a … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Maclean’s) – The ethics are muddy, the country is divided and the world is watching Canada’s next move. Inside the crusade for psychiatric MAID. Brosseau does not want her future to hinge on disinformation campaigns, timid politicians and slowly evolving … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Axios) – Makers of copycat weight-loss drugs and digital health companies that sell them are bracing for upheaval now that the Food and Drug Administration has declared Novo Nordisk’s blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy are no longer in shortage. Why it … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Luigi Mangione faced a hearing on Friday as supporters planned a rally outside a Manhattan courthouse. Some Americans have found a hero in the man accused of vigilante murder. Supporters, some of whom have championed his … Read More
February 24, 2025
(USA Today) – The increase in AI and technological advances in U.S. classrooms has challenged English teachers to adapt their reading lessons and writing assignments. Some of these educational AI technology products on the market can help kids learn to … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. The … Read More
February 24, 2025
(NPR) – “If you have been vaccinated with two doses of vaccine as per routine, you have a 95-plus percent chance of being completely protected throughout your life,” Schaffner says. But public health experts say there are some adults who … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – The District’s only for-profit psychiatric hospital prioritizes profits over patient care, systematically committing patients when not medically necessary to maximize insurance payments, a former patient alleges in a lawsuit. The unidentified patient was held for … Read More
February 21, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious … Read More
February 21, 2025
(BBC) – An experimental trial of gene therapy has helped four toddlers – born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness – gain “life-changing improvements” to their sight, according to doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Aeon) – We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again? These apps and algorithms are part of a growing class of technologies that marry artificial intelligence (AI) with the … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wired) – The semaglutide shortage has officially ended in the US—which means the GLP-1 drug industry is about to undergo massive changes. The US Food and Drug Administration has determined that semaglutide is no longer in shortage, a move that … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wired) – Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found. A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Civil probe of diagnoses that triggered extra payments to the company’s Medicare Advantage plans adds to scrutiny of the healthcare giant The Justice Department has launched an investigation into UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices in recent … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … Read More
February 20, 2025
(New York Times) – But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions unanswered. Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests … Read More
February 20, 2025
(The Verge) – The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects. The Verge sought out legal documents and … Read More
February 20, 2025
(Nature) – The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health. But healthy people are rife with viruses that don’t make us ill. Scientists estimate that tens … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese money brokers are teaming up with Mexican cartels, greasing the wheels of the fentanyl trade, U.S. officials say After a quick discussion with a woman in the Maserati, the man placed a large black bag … Read More
