November 19, 2024
(NBC News) – Allegations that go unreported and a lack of accountability for health care workers leave patients in the dark and increase the risk of abuse, research shows. Violent crime in hospitals is up, according to a 2023 report from The Joint … Read More
November 19, 2024
(New York Times) – Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok. Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, … Read More
November 18, 2024
(New York Times) – A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot. The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a … Read More
November 18, 2024
(NBC News) – The University of North Texas Health Science Center turned to alkaline hydrolysis to save money on cremations of human remains, budget documents show. State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its practice of … Read More
November 18, 2024
(KFF Health News) – On online baby message boards and other social media forums, pregnant women say they are being asked by their providers to pay out-of-pocket fees earlier than expected. The practice is legal, but patient advocacy groups call … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Axios) – The Drug Enforcement Administration and Health and Human Services ended an impasse over the virtual prescribing of controlled substances that threatened access to drugs like Adderall by extending pandemic-era flexibilities through the end of 2025. Why it matters: … Read More
November 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Earlier this year, my mother ended her life via medical aid in dying, also known as MAID. She had A.L.S., so she was suffering in many ways, and her choice to die in this manner felt … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Keratopigmentation could be dangerous, doctors warn. Patients say it’s worth the risks. Some people getting the procedure say they want to look better and feel more confident. Others did it to look more like family members. … Read More
November 15, 2024
(NPR) – For years, Namazzi — who is also a lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences — has turned to a medication called artemisinin. The drug is derived from an ancient Chinese malaria treatment that was rediscovered several … Read More
November 15, 2024
(Aeon) – As a hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give her an implant to help her hear? In a recent interview with the news site Truthout, the Deaf philosopher Teresa Blankmeyer … Read More
November 15, 2024
(Wired) – It’s been a year since the gene-editing treatment Casgevy was approved for sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder. It’s finally being infused into patients. When WIRED followed up with Vertex via email, spokesperson Eleanor Celeste declined … Read More
November 15, 2024
(CBS News) – A grad student in Michigan received a threatening response during a chat with Google’s AI chatbot Gemini. In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, Google’s Gemini responded with this threatening message: “This … Read More
November 15, 2024
(New Scientist) – Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising alternative to opioids Medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may be able to reduce both chronic and acute pain. … Read More
November 14, 2024
(MedPage Today) – The ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look, as new rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ … Read More
November 14, 2024
(NPR) – Street drug deaths in the U.S. are dropping at the fastest rate ever seen, according to a new report issued on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preliminary data shows roughly 97,000 fatal overdoses over … Read More
November 14, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Doctors say that Richard Slayman’s body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology. A historic medical accomplishment that ended in tragedy may yet have a silver lining. Doctors say that Richard … Read More
November 14, 2024
(The Guardian) – Scientists say increase from 1990 to 2022 was largest in low- and middle-income countries and lack of treatment ‘concerning’ The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years to more than 800 million … Read More
November 14, 2024
(Washington Post) – Feeling lonely increased risk for all-cause dementia by 31 percent and cognitive impairment by 15 percent. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, who last year issued a public health advisory on loneliness, said the risk for premature … Read More
November 13, 2024
(The Scientist) – Researchers used artificial intelligence in large genomics studies to fill in gaps in patient information and improve predictions, but new research uncovers false positives and misleading correlations. With AI-assisted GWAS [genome-wide association studies], Lu and his colleagues … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday. The numbers represented some good news about sexually transmitted diseases, which experienced some … Read More
November 13, 2024
(New York Times) – The pounding that sailors’ brains take from years of high-speed wave-slamming in the Special Boat Teams can cause symptoms that wreck their careers — and their lives. Seeking an edge in combat, the Navy has created … Read More
November 13, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Across California, public health and pest control authorities are facing a new reality as the Aedes mosquitoes bring the threat of dengue and potentially other tropical diseases, such as chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever, that were … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Axios) – Pregnant women or those who’ve given birth in the past year are likelier to be murdered than die from medical causes like preeclampsia or hemorrhaging, a new study in JAMA Network Open concludes. Why it matters: The findings … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Axios) – The U.S. may be heading into Thanksgiving with respiratory disease levels at lows not seen since before the pandemic, and with few immediate signs of another tripledemic. The big picture: Instead of seasonal flu, COVID-19 or RSV, the … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Joanna Stern strapped chatbots from Meta, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft to a tripod and took them to the woods to uncover the secrets of AI friendship My new friends are just hilarious. One suggested I de-stress … Read More
