October 28, 2024
(National Post) – The case is among several highlighted by an Ontario MAID death review committee involving people who weren’t terminally ill An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his … Read More
October 25, 2024
(New York Times) – One day last winter, Alison Stewart, the host of “All of It” on WNYC, was alarmed to find herself speaking gibberish. Since 2022, Dr. D’Amico, 43, has been at the forefront of introducing to New York … Read More
October 25, 2024
(New York Times) – The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death. Sewell, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Orlando, Fla., had spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI, a … Read More
October 25, 2024
(New York Times) – Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases. More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this … Read More
October 24, 2024
(The Guardian) – Pollock is among an unknown number of people experiencing what many have unofficially termed “breast implant illness” (BII). The term has gained traction on social media but is not a formal medical diagnosis, and therefore still unfamiliar … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Axios) – The push for more transparency in the health system is increasingly taking aim at “ghost networks” — the inaccurate health provider directories that critics say are keeping Americans from getting mental health care. Why it matters: A lawsuit … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Axios) – A Florida mother is suing AI startup Character.AI after her son died by suicide following an emotional attachment to a chatbot, as reported by Mostly Human Media. The big picture: AI companion app creators often claim that their … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Private Medicare insurers got about $4.2 billion in extra federal payments in 2023 for diagnoses from home visits the companies initiated, even though they led to no treatment, a new inspector general’s report says. The extra … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Wired) – The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races. AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research … Read More
October 23, 2024
(The Guardian) – There is broad scientific consensus that intelligence is partly inherited and that genes play a significant role. But pinning this incredibly complex trait down to precise contributions from specific genes is a far more thorny scientific challenge … Read More
October 23, 2024
(The Walrus) – Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything The wellness industry is currently valued at a breathtaking $5.6 trillion (US) worldwide, which includes earnings from bona fide resources for healthier living (e.g., sports and … Read More
October 23, 2024
(STAT News) – New research calls into question the high-profile conclusion of the first major study to show that the race of physicians influences health outcomes. In August of 2020, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies … Read More
October 23, 2024
(The Guardian) – ‘Surprising’ finding by Australian-led study is first recorded instance of an antibiotic causing resistance to one in a different class The rise of an almost untreatable superbug has been linked to a common antibiotic, an Australian-led study … Read More
October 23, 2024
(New York Times) – The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. In the nine years … Read More
October 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Genetic tests showed that certain patients were predisposed to brain injuries if they took the drugs. That information remained secret. To assess the drug’s effectiveness and safety, Eisai sought to include people whose genetic profiles made … Read More
October 23, 2024
(ProPublica) – When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. A ProPublica and Capitol Forum investigation found … Read More
October 23, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Google DeepMind has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text and is making it available open source. The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative AI outputs. The company … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Axios) – IV fluids from as far away as China are being imported to the U.S. to alleviate nationwide shortages stemming from hurricane damage to a key manufacturing plant in North Carolina. Why it matters: Hospitals now have 50% more … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Axios) – Infant death rates were higher than expected for several months after the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion, with most of the increase coming from infants with birth defects, researchers reported on Monday in JAMA … Read More
October 22, 2024
(KFF Health News) – For decades throughout the opioid crisis, most doctors have relied on medication-heavy regimens to treat babies who are born experiencing neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. Those protocols often meant separating newborns from their mothers, placing them in … Read More
October 22, 2024
(NPR) – Khmil says not only have doctors and patients been displaced because of the fighting, the conflict has also put the fundamental building blocks to make life at risk. “Many of [the doctors] evacuated with sperm, eggs and equipment,” … Read More
October 22, 2024
(New York Times) – After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against. Kendric Cromer, … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – More drugs, changing guidelines are too much for general oncologists to track Cancer care is getting more complicated, thanks to a better understanding of cancer’s molecular underpinnings. Doctors now think of cancer as more than 100 … Read More
October 21, 2024
(New York Times) – After Hurricane Helene Hit, a group of doctors and nurses quikly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care. (Watch Video Here)
October 21, 2024
(Bloomberg) – The students most susceptible to inaccurate accusations are likely those who write in a more generic manner, either because they’re neurodivergent like Olmsted, speak English as a second language (ESL) or simply learned to use more straightforward vocabulary … Read More
