December 9, 2024
(CNBC) – A federal judge approved a landmark class action settlement this week between Aetna and same-sex couples in New York who alleged the insurance behemoth had discriminated against them and other LGBTQ customers seeking fertility treatment. Aetna, a subsidiary … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found. Every day at dawn, tens of thousands of people begin lining up at Acadia Healthcare’s addiction … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Some people are taking tiny amounts of weight loss medications, hoping to drop pounds while avoiding side effects. Does it work? At this point, doctors aren’t sure. Theoretically, these medications are so potent that perhaps even … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Post) – A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to publicly disclose more information underpinning its authorization of COVID-19 vaccines, after failing to persuade the court to end the public records lawsuit. In a ruling, on … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Axios) – Cancer treatment rates jumped among adults younger than age 50 between 2020 and 2023, according to a FAIR Health analysis shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The report reflects a puzzling rise in the rates of certain … Read More
December 9, 2024
(New York Times) – In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency. How could a boy who had never left Kamituga have … Read More
December 9, 2024
(The Washington Post) – Why would these drugs help with addictions to alcohol and drugs? “I really don’t think we know yet,” Lähteenvuo said, though he noted that some primate studies have pointed to GLP-1 drugs affecting dopamine in the … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Christianity Today) – Advocates of the bill say assisted dying is a compassionate response to the excruciating pain experienced by many terminally ill patients. But Christian leaders from a variety of denominations in the UK say that this decision devalues … Read More
December 6, 2024
(NPR) – Every year, an estimated 400,000 children worldwide develop a form of cancer. Five-year survival rates in high-income nations are typically over 80%, with an expected cure rate of near 100% for some cancers like retinoblastoma — a malignant … Read More
December 6, 2024
(New York Times) – It’s not the just the elderly. More than three-quarters of heat-related deaths in Mexico occurred among people younger than 35, researchers reported. The researchers analyzed deaths in Mexico from 1998 to 2019 and discovered that people … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wired) – The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of them children. Deaths in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Harvard geneticist David Sinclair aims to develop treatments for aging, but his companies have struggled to deliver Harvard geneticist David Sinclair’s seductive notion that aging is a treatable disease has helped companies he founded to raise … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Reuters via U.S. News & World Report) – An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain technology company was found to have “objectionable conditions or practices” by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Associated Press) – Thirteen children under the age of 14 have died in central Mexico and authorities said Thursday they suspect contaminated IV feeding bags as the culprit. The federal Health Department ordered doctors across the country not to use … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The cryptic inscriptions scrawled on bullets found at the fatal shooting of a UnitedHealth Group executive aren’t just clues of possible motivation left by an assassin. They are also a variation of an angry rallying cry … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Patients who leave Medicare plans run by private insurance companies in favor of traditional Medicare end up costing the government much more than typical patients, according to a new analysis by health-policy nonprofit KFF, raising the … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wired) – Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy. Apple has created a lot of consumer tools for medical technology. … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Live Science) – Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there’s no evidence that the viral disease has spread from one person to another. However, a single mutation in the virus … Read More
December 4, 2024
(New York Times) – Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike. Over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery departments since 2010, according to a large new … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Colorado Public Radio) – A patient with terminal cancer approached Dr. Barbara Morris in 2019 for help ending his own life. The Colorado End of Life Options Act, which allowed for it, had passed with broad voter support just a … Read More
December 4, 2024
(UPI via MSN) – In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Axios) – Hospitals received billions of dollars in extra payments from insurers and government programs over a nine-year period by billing for higher-intensity care than what would be expected, according to a new study. Why it matters: The findings argue … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Nature) – Survey of scientists who study ageing finds no consensus on the fundamentals. Researchers studying ageing disagree on just about everything — including what ageing is, whether it is a disease and when it starts — according to a … Read More
December 4, 2024
(NPR) – The Taliban’s supreme leader has reportedly ordered a ban on women attending nursing and midwivery institutes, closing a rare avenue they had to pursue an education beyond the sixth grade. Human Rights Watch says the ban was ordered … Read More
December 4, 2024
(The Verge) – The month before, Italian regulators had banned the company for posing a risk to minors and emotionally vulnerable users. In response, Replika placed filters on erotic content, which had the effect of sending many of its quarter-million … Read More
