November 13, 2024
(Wired) – San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone marrow in recent months. A donor must have closely matched genes for human leukocyte antigens, or HLA, to be … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Noema) – Unchecked development is encroaching into parched desert landscapes and kicking up more than just a little dust — it’s raising the risk of a mysterious new infection. Here, like in much of the arid American West, Valley fever … Read More
November 12, 2024
(New York Times) – What should be expected of an intimate partner when a companion suffers a health crisis? Seniors and their families increasingly confront the question. “We have a clear and shared understanding of what it means to be … Read More
November 12, 2024
(New York Times) – After decades of unrelenting increases, rates of sexually transmitted infections in the United States are showing hints of a downturn. Diagnoses of gonorrhea dipped in nearly all age groups last year, compared with 2022, and new … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Nature) – Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs. Back in 1985, a car crash shattered three of Imbrie’s vertebrae and severed 70% of his spinal cord, leaving … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Ars Technica) – New reports highlight fears of diminishing returns for traditional LLM training. For years now, many AI industry watchers have looked at the quickly growing capabilities of new AI models and mused about exponential performance increases continuing well … Read More
November 12, 2024
(ABC News) – A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia health official said Tuesday. It’s not clear how the teenager picked up the virus, which has been detected … Read More
November 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – DNA-testing company 23andMe said on Monday that it was firing roughly 40% of its workforce, more than 200 people, as Chief Executive Anne Wojcicki seeks to stabilize her money-losing business. As part of the restructuring, the … Read More
November 12, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents. For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada … Read More
November 12, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Established in 2017, the Deep Learning Indaba now has chapters in 47 of the 55 African nations and aims to boost AI development across the continent by providing training and resources to African AI researchers like … Read More
November 12, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Gaps in the United States’ genetic-nondiscrimination law mean that life, long-term-care, and disability insurers can obligate their customers to disclose genetic risk factors for disease and deny them coverage (or hike prices) based on the resulting information. … Read More
November 11, 2024
(NPR) – “Life — for me — it felt infinite, and I think that’s something that a lot of us have when we’re young, is that life feels like it’s going to go on for a long time,” Monje says. … Read More
November 11, 2024
(NBC News) – The hormone is recommended for women only at low doses for low libido. Do women have a testosterone problem? Social media influencers believe they do. And with the rise of telemedicine and testosterone replacement clinics opening up … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Wired) – The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms. Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – While marijuana can help calm agitation, there are risks Roughly 20% of the people who come for a cannabis consultation now are dementia patients, says Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, a general practitioner in Sebastopol, Calif., who has … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Associated Press) – After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A bouncy labradoodle and a Kansas City-area program helped her get … Read More
November 11, 2024
(New York Times) – Technology and loneliness are interlinked, researchers have found, stoked by the ways we interact with social media, text messaging and binge-watching. I went down a rabbit hole for the last few months reading research papers and … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Nature) – Controversy has erupted among researchers over an effort to adopt blood tests and brain scans for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease, rather than the cognitive screening that has been used for decades. Proponents of the change say that new biomarker … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Nature) – Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try. A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Nature) – Three people with severely impaired vision who received stem-cell transplants have experienced substantial improvements in their sight that have persisted for more than a year. A fourth person with severely impaired vision also experienced gains in their sight, … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top priorities for new vaccine development. The WHO study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize … Read More
November 8, 2024
(BBC) – Susan McGowan, 58, took two low-dose injections of tirzepatide, known under the brand name Mounjaro, over the course of about two weeks before her death on 4 September. Her death certificate, seen by the BBC, lists multiple organ … Read More
November 8, 2024
(CNN) – Callahan isn’t afraid of digging into the deep stuff. In fact, he runs toward it. Sometimes, though, he’ll encounter patients who brush him off when they learn he’s a chaplain — they aren’t believers, they tell him, and … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Quartz) – Numerous studies suggest that Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications may help with a range of conditions such as kidney failure, sleep apnea, Alzheimer’s, and more It seems like every day a new study emerges linking Ozempic and similar … Read More
November 7, 2024
(Nature) – Scientists raise the alarm following updated research ethics guidelines on heritable human genome editing. Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. … Read More
