December 16, 2024
(Ars Technica) – A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus, state health officials announced Friday. It is the first human H5N1 case detected in … Read More
December 16, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Many on Wall Street see Adderall and Vyvanse as tools to plow through long hours of tedious work amid high-pressure competition Images of Wall Street’s rank-and-file blowing cash on illegal drugs and nightlife are well known, … Read More
December 16, 2024
(New York Times) – The people of UnitedHealth Group are nurses, doctors, patient and client advocates, technologists and more. They all come to work each day to provide critical health services for millions of Americans in need. We know the … Read More
December 13, 2024
(ProPublica) – Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. ProPublica has obtained what is … Read More
December 13, 2024
(The Atlantic) – West Virginia gave obesity drugs to teachers and state employees—then took them away. The program was, by health measures, a success. Patients shed as much as 120 pounds, their cholesterol dropped, their prediabetes faded, and they cut … Read More
December 13, 2024
(Vox) – Here are three possible explanations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s preliminary data on the 12-month period ending in June showed that overdoses dropped about 15 percentage points from the previous period. There were still roughly 94,000 … Read More
December 12, 2024
(NPR) – Can we eliminate the HIV epidemic? It’s a question that dates back to the start of the epidemic in the 1980s. With 1.3 million new infections a year, the epidemic continues … and the world is not on … Read More
December 12, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are making dieting and exercise obsolete. This insistence on the status quo has begun to seem a little strange. It’s long been known that … Read More
December 12, 2024
(The New Yorker) – A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone. Surgeons traditionally sew down residual muscles when they amputate a limb. There are good reasons for … Read More
December 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned two solvents found in everyday products … Read More
December 12, 2024
(IBTimes) – An annual report by the Canadian government showed that deaths by euthanasia have steadily grown since it became legal. Since the establishment of Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) law in 2016, more than 60,000 people have used … Read More
December 12, 2024
(Montana Free Press) – Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Medpage Today) – Independent experts found unacceptable safety risk The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication. The decision, which … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Aftermath) – Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead. AI company Embodied announced this week that they would be shutting down following financial … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Wired) – “People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.” For years now, aspiring parents have been designing their children. Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting their future baby’s sex, … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – 3D-printed weapons—like the one police believe suspect Luigi Mangione used—are increasingly common The homemade handgun and suppressor that police say was used in last week’s killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive is intensifying the debate over the … Read More
December 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone. Cheng works for Anthropic, one of the biggest AI startups … Read More
December 11, 2024
(CBC News) – As involuntary treatment gains political traction in Canada, CBC News goes to Washington state to find out how it can help — and what can go wrong CBC News went inside an involuntary treatment facility near Seattle … Read More
December 11, 2024
(New York Times) – When Moira Legault, who has brain cancer, was given about a year to live, she knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Tyler Ferron. Almost $30,000 of transferable vendor services were donated … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Nature) – Researchers call on technology companies to test their systems for consciousness and create AI welfare policies. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought to the fore ethical questions that were once confined to the realms of … Read More
December 10, 2024
(The Guardian) – Ten patients suffering from a mystery disease that has broken out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have tested positive for malaria, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said. However, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus … Read More
December 10, 2024
(New York Times) – Doctors routinely advise that women undergoing screening for cervical cancer receive Pap smears every three years beginning at age 21. Now, beginning at 30, women have a new option. Instead of undergoing a pelvic exam, these … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Gizmodo) – While the exact fate of the misplaced samples is still unknown, they likely pose no danger to the public, government officials have said. A research facility in Australia is in hot water over losing track of its viruses. … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League graduate who had worked in tech, was arrested in Pennsylvania and found with a firearm suppressor, a ghost gun and multiple fraudulent IDs A person of interest in the killing of … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Times) – New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms? A law required that these devices be fitted with filters to ensure safe internet use, … Read More
