January 29, 2025
(Wired) – The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to help treat victims of traumatic injuries. Each year, about 185,000 people in the United States undergo amputation. Nearly … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Discover) – Investigating the impacts of the drug, recent research in JAMA Network Open has revealed that heavy cannabis use is associated with reduced brain activity during working memory tasks. Representing the largest of any such study so far, the … Read More
January 28, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Just a week in, the AI sector has already seen its first battle of wits under the new Trump administration. The clash stems from two key pieces of news: the announcement of the Stargate project, which … Read More
January 28, 2025
(New York Times) – A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Wired) – Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny. The United States’ recent regulatory action against the … Read More
January 28, 2025
(The Telegraph) – Terminally ill patients given six months to live often survive for three years, official figures have revealed, fuelling fresh concern over assisted dying becoming legal Patients who are given a prognosis of six months by their doctors … Read More
January 28, 2025
(The New Atlantis) – From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Many people who continue with IVF feel that, if they want a child, they have no other choice. “Right now our treatment options are pretty binary,” Pietro Bortoletto, the director of reproductive surgery and a co-director of … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Independent) – ‘Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history’ said a Kansas Department of Health and Environment official An unprecedented wave of tuberculosis infections has struck the state of Kansas as nearly 70 cases … Read More
January 27, 2025
(ProPublica) – The U.S. Department of Labor found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, findings that mirror a recent ProPublica investigation. Health plans, and the companies that administer them, … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Monday 27 January is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three survivors, two of whom were interned there as teenagers, tell Kate Connolly their stories. Before the Nazis came … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Wired) – When online romance and sextortion scammers sense they’ve found a victim who may send them money, they’ll use all kinds of villainous methods to get paid. They’ll frequently stoop to blackmail—and are constantly creating more devious approaches to … Read More
January 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – All three seniors live in D.C. and are now part of a new program distributing robotic pets to residents 60 and older who live in Wards 1, 7 and 8. The initiative, spearheaded by three … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Conversation) – Globally, mothers are having fewer children. Yet despite this latest observed decline in birth rates, the number of twins and triplets being born today is higher than ever before. This is the first time this has ever … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Exclusive: In-vitro gametes are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research Mass-producing eggs and sperm in a laboratory in order to have a baby with yourself or three other people in a “multiplex” parenting arrangement might … Read More
January 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored. Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion … Read More
January 24, 2025
(New York Times) – A large study found that men lost seven years of life expectancy and women lost nine years, compared with counterparts without the disorder. The study, which was published Thursday in The British Journal of Psychiatry, is … Read More
January 24, 2025
(ProPublica) – The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation. Health plans, and the companies that administer them, have excluded … Read More
January 24, 2025
(Science) – On 2 January, Japan’s regulatory agency issued a news release that startled some scientists: It had approved the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, for the treatment of mpox and two cousins, smallpox and cowpox. No treatments … Read More
January 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The greatest difficulty with measuring loneliness—and deciding how much to focus on ending it—may be that we don’t really know what loneliness is. Different people, researchers told me, seem to mean different things when they say they’re … Read More
January 23, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Now a preliminary study suggests that using another drug in place of mifepristone may be just as effective for terminating an early pregnancy. The drug, called ulipristal acetate and sold as a 30-milligram pill under the brand … Read More
January 23, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention strategies, and more. The loss of US funding … Read More
January 23, 2025
(DNYUZ) – ExThera, which has about 50 employees, makes a single product: a filter that it says can be used to remove the tumor cells that circulate in patients’ blood and enable cancer to metastasize. Early last year, the company … Read More
