January 13, 2025
(NPR) – If you want to get high in Texas, your options are almost limitless. This law-and-order state of guns, God and capital punishment is awash in cannabis. Today, Texas has more than 7,000 cannabis dispensaries, almost twice as many … Read More
January 13, 2025
(New York Times) – The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years to about one million annually by 2060, a new study estimates, and the number of new … Read More
January 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The rapidly spreading wildfires that have transformed much of Los Angeles County into a raging hellscape are not only upending the lives of tens of thousands of residents and business owners, but also stressing the region’s … Read More
January 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Algorithm glitches are one facet of a dilemma that computer scientists and doctors have long acknowledged but that is starting to puzzle hospital executives and researchers: Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put … Read More
January 10, 2025
(ABC News) – Several hospitals and health care facilities have closed their clinics and offices in the southern California area as the devastating wildfires continue to spread. As of Thursday, at least five people have died, and thousands of structures … Read More
January 10, 2025
(Wired) – Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models. Against the company’s wishes, a court unredacted information … Read More
January 10, 2025
(Wired) – Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in labs to produce better materials for performing reconstructive surgeries. A newly discovered cell type could transform … Read More
January 9, 2025
(National Catholic Register) – Police attempted to force doctors to perform the search, threatening arrest and obstruction of justice if they failed to do so. A lawsuit filed in federal court claims that officials in an Ohio city retaliated against … Read More
January 9, 2025
(CNN) – Artificial intelligence is coming for your job: 41% of employers intend to downsize their workforce as AI automates certain tasks, a World Economic Forum survey showed Wednesday. Out of hundreds of large companies surveyed around the world, 77% … Read More
January 9, 2025
(New York Times) – The results of a new federal analysis were drawn from studies conducted in other countries, where drinking water contains more fluoride than in the United States. Observational studies cannot prove a cause-and-effect relationship. Yet in countries … Read More
January 9, 2025
(New York Times) – He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real. In early 1988, the British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in … Read More
January 9, 2025
(NPR) – Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted because of smoke from several wildfires burning in the surrounding hills. Exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health problem across the country, as human-caused climate change increases the … Read More
January 9, 2025
(NBC News) – The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research. A yearlong bipartisan congressional investigation into two private equity-backed U.S. hospital systems found that patient care … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Rescuers rushed to distribute blankets and tents to those displaced by the magnitude-7.1 quake that struck Tibetan villages near Nepal, toppling over 3,000 homes. Rescuers working in subzero conditions and bracing winds searched the rubble on … Read More
January 8, 2025
(Associated Press) – The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. Nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet. For centuries, new technologies have changed the ways people worship, from the radio in the 1920s to television sets … Read More
January 8, 2025
(Wired) – Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. Let’s pause from hating on Meta for a moment though. It’s worth noting that AI-generated social personas … Read More
January 8, 2025
(Wired) – The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on. This is the new world we’re in, with … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic almost exactly five years ago. But despite the surface similarities, this situation is … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes. When Stephane Castel first met with a group of M?ori people and other … Read More
January 8, 2025
(NPR) – “We woke up from bombs being dropped on the military base two blocks away [from our home],” says Ali, adding that his medical school and many hospitals were also bombed. “I had to flee my home.” For over … Read More
January 7, 2025
(New York Times) – Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing the medication — a development intended to broaden abortion access by taking advantage of rules that give them prescribing ability in most states. The new effort is … Read More
January 7, 2025
(NPR) – The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban … Read More
January 7, 2025
(New York Times) – Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. In Kenya, India, Brazil and dozens of … Read More
January 7, 2025
(404 Media) – Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. One Redditor posted over the weekend that they were scrolling through … Read More
