February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month. World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone that … Read More
February 19, 2025
(NPR) – President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday evening with the goal of expanding access to and lowering the cost of the infertility treatment known as IVF, or in vitro fertilization. The order directs Trump’s assistant for domestic policy to … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Environmental and lifestyle factors play a far greater role than genetics in determining the likelihood of dying young, according to the largest study yet to untangle the contributions of nature and nurture to healthy aging. A … Read More
February 19, 2025
(NBC News) – An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are “working to swiftly rectify the situation.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired “several” agency employees who are working on … Read More
February 19, 2025
(BBC) – The tactic that had been used – perhaps successfully, in my case – is hundreds of years old. It is often deployed on social media, by brands and influencers, and by politicians around the globe. Often called an … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Newsweek) – A woman filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic in Georgia after she was given another couple’s embryo. Krystena Murray lost custody five months after delivery, despite wanting to keep the child, according to the lawsuit. This is … Read More
February 18, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Shaw was among thousands of patients of Pain MD, a multistate pain management company that was once among the nation’s most prolific users of what it referred to as “tendon origin injections,” which normally inject a … Read More
February 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations … Read More
February 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Criminals are targeting pharmacies and stealing weight-loss medication in a country with body image insecurities and where many cannot afford the drugs. While a smattering of media reports show thieves are after Ozempic elsewhere in the … Read More
February 18, 2025
(CBS News) – For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, more people in the U.S. died of influenza than from COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 25, according to weekly figures published by the Centers for … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Wired) – Can stuffed animals, rose petals, and injections of an Elon Musk–approved dissociative drug help Silicon Valley leaders out of a rut? These women say yes. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Associated Press) – The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles. New Mexico health department spokesman Robert Nott said Tuesday that … Read More
February 18, 2025
(BBC) – Five NHS audiology departments have told the BBC that there has been an increase in the number of young people referred to them from GPs with hearing issues – only to find their hearing is normal when tested … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in people—largely dairy workers—public-health officials think bird flu … Read More
February 18, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? Many see illicit fentanyl, said to be about 50 times as powerful as … Read More
February 17, 2025
(New York Times) – In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it. Ms. Mekel, 82, has Alzheimer’s disease. It was diagnosed a year … Read More
February 17, 2025
(SciDevNet) – Poor regulation and lack of transparency in Africa’s fertility industry leave sperm donors and recipients vulnerable to exploitation and unethical practices, including relatives unwittingly having children together, fertility experts warn. Consanguinity, referring to where biological relatives conceive children … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Nature) – CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach. The girl was four years old when she arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to receive a highly experimental … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – In a pastoral Vermont valley, a former hospice chaplain named Suzanne runs a retreat center for artists, health-care workers and educators — and, since mid-2023, terminally ill people seeking a safe, peaceful place to die. … Read More
February 17, 2025
(ProPublica) – The story of Zolgensma lays bare a confounding reality about modern drug development, in which revolutionary new treatments are becoming available only to be priced out of reach for many. It’s a story that upends commonly held conceptions … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – If you need a prescription filled in the coming years, don’t be surprised if it flies in and lands in your backyard. Hospitals and doctors are increasingly experimenting with the use of drones to deliver medications, … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Deseret News) – Surgical sterilization is on the rise among young American women during a global fertility crisis. What are unintended consequences of the decision? While elective sterilization is a personal decision, it is not without societal costs, particularly in … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Associated Press) – The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who … Read More
February 14, 2025
(Vox) – The more agency we give AI assistants, the scarier they get. The basic concept of an AI agent is simultaneously alluring and horrific. Who wouldn’t want an AI to handle mundane computer chores? But if the AI can … Read More
