October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – In specialized wards called mother-and-baby units, doctors treat postpartum psychosis while allowing women to keep caring for their children. A few hours later, Mr. Hardie was driving his wife and infant daughter to a specialized psychiatric … Read More
October 9, 2024
(NBC News) – X is just the latest platform to struggle with user groups creating eating disorder content, where teens can fall down a rabbit hole that promotes extreme thinness. Users refer to the groups as part of “edtwt”(eating disorder … Read More
October 9, 2024
(Nature) – This year’s prize celebrates computational tools that have transformed biology and have the potential to revolutionize drug discovery. For the first time — and probably not the last — a scientific breakthrough enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) has … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – Thirteen states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of creating an intentionally addictive app that harmed children and teenagers while making false claims to the public about its commitment to … Read More
October 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Embryo models—that is, embryos created using stem cells—could provide a real alternative for studying some of the hardest problems in human development, unlocking crucial details about, say, what causes miscarriages and developmental disorders. In recent years, Hanna … Read More
October 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Their saliva is making some farmers allergic to their own cattle and sheep. When Clark Giles first heard about ticks making people allergic to meat, he found the notion so unbelievable, he considered it “hogwash.” Then, in … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive. Faced with a declining population that threatens economic growth, the Chinese government … Read More
October 8, 2024
(CBS News) – In response to an unprecedented outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now plan to screen arriving international travelers for their risk of bringing the deadly Ebola-like disease into the country. … Read More
October 7, 2024
(CNN) – The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function. Their … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Wired) – The authors of the report estimate that 40 percent of all cancer cases are associated with “modifiable risk factors”—in other words, things we can change ourselves. Alcohol consumption being prominent among them. Six types of cancer are linked … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Washington Post) – Will West, a 33-year-old who was training at George Washington University hospital in D.C., wrote in a suicide note that other residents are “at real risk” There is no way to know for certain what led Will … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Axios) – Hospitals are starting to run short of critical IV fluids and devising workarounds after a North Carolina manufacturing plant that furnished more than half of the domestic supply was taken down by Hurricane Helene. Why it matters: Health … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Wired) – It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the … Read More
October 7, 2024
(New York Times) – NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech. The Kids Online Safety Act was “bad on policy and bad on the law,” the lobby, … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Washington Post) – Public health officials and researchers say the drop may reflect multiple forces, including access to treatment and overdose-reversal medication. Overdose deaths appear to be declining sharply in the United States, a sign that efforts to combat the … Read More
October 7, 2024
(The Guardian) – A judge has ordered an EPA risk assessment amid fear that additive that strengthens teeth could harm children’s IQs For decades, drinking water fluoridation opponents were often portrayed as a fringe element and conspiracy theorists, but a … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The daunting health challenges facing sick and disabled children in Ukraine are a cruel reminder that the war’s tentacles stretch far beyond the front line. They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Nature) – The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells. … Read More
October 4, 2024
(NBC News) – Baxter International said it would temporarily close production at its North Cove, North Carolina-based facility, raising concerns about a potential nationwide shortage. Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after … Read More
October 4, 2024
(NBC News) – Dozens of hospital workers are unaccounted for, unreachable by phone and possibly stuck in inaccessible areas. But nearly a week after the storm’s ferocious floodwaters destroyed so much of the western part of the state, Kaufmann, the … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Axios) – Hurricane Helene’s death toll surpassed 200 on Thursday as rescue crews searched for survivors, one week after the major storm made landfall in Florida and brought flooding rains across the U.S. Southeast. The big picture: The at least … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Slate) – The criteria for the condition have expanded since the 1980s, scooping up patients who say the diagnosis has steered them down the wrong path. But some psychiatrists think that the bipolar diagnosis has actually gone too far—that there … Read More
October 4, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Tech companies collect brain data that could be used to infer our thoughts—so it’s vital we get legal protections right. On September 28, California became the second US state to officially recognize the importance of mental … Read More
October 3, 2024
(NBC News) – Five days after Hurricane Helene, water is just now flowing at Asheville, North Carolina’s largest hospital, thanks to a freshly dug well. Facing what could be months without a steady water supply, the only solution for Mission … Read More
