October 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry ’s fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say are responsible … Read More
October 3, 2024
(STAT News) – Often, women with sickle cell disease are told not to have kids. They might come to an appointment, happily pregnant, only for the doctor to tell them they shouldn’t be. They might be preparing for a scheduled … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Washington Post) – Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map of the human brain … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Nature) – As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it. The dominance of the United States raises concerns about the potential for unequal access to implantable BCI technologies as they … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Gizmodo) – The tool allows anyone wearing smart glasses to instantly get info on strangers, including their home address and phone number. Two college students have used Meta’s smart glasses to build a tool that quickly identifies any stranger walking … Read More
October 2, 2024
(The Atlantic) – People share personal information about themselves all the time online, whether in Google searches (“best couples therapists”) or Amazon orders (“pregnancy test”). But chatbots are uniquely good at getting us to reveal details about ourselves. Common usages, … Read More
October 2, 2024
(NBC News) – To help families find answers, NBC News is publishing the names of more than 1,800 people whose unclaimed bodies were given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center, according to county records. These survivors said … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Vox) – We are entering a new era of global health. It starts with some good news: Around the world, the number of people dying from infectious diseases every year is falling. Fewer women are dying in childbirth. More infants … Read More
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – Death rates are declining among U.S. women with breast cancer. But the disease is turning up more often in women under age 50. Rates of breast cancer — the second leading cause of cancer deaths in … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Los Angeles Times) – Children, teens and young adults in Southern California had been grappling with rising rates of depression and anxiety for years before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and made their mental health struggles even worse. Among … Read More
October 1, 2024
(ProPublica) – Until recently, opioids almost exclusively claimed the lives of adults. Since COVID-19 began, though, the rate of overdose deaths among teenagers has rocketed, more than doubling in three years. It’s not that more teens are using drugs, but … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Associated Press) – Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth in the state. Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office filed the lawsuit in … Read More
October 1, 2024
(NPR) – “It’s the crime of the century,” says Bruce Lanphear. He’s not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Science) – Agency fines Cassava $40 million, and two of its employees lesser amounts, over research on simufilam The troubled biopharma company Cassava Sciences agreed last week to pay $40 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Before my visit to Blue Cliff, I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – The lack of access can increase the risk of infections, depression and missing school and social activities. A third of teens and young adults in the U.S. can’t afford or otherwise access menstrual products, according to new … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Axios) – Drug developers are pursuing a new option for reproductive care in the post-Roe landscape: birth control pills for men. Why it matters: Mounting abortion restrictions across the U.S. are driving a search for new contraceptive methods that can … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Atlantic) – The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned. 23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The first new kind of treatment for schizophrenia patients in decades is arriving. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on Thursday, greenlighting the first of a new class of treatments that could help … Read More
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. For more than a decade, antimicrobial … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Nature) – A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wired) – This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain. Made by Spanish company InBrain Neuroelectronics, the technology is a type of … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Children conceived through IVF and other reproductive technologies have a significantly higher risk of serious heart abnormalities than naturally conceived children, a large international study has found. A study of 7.7 million children in four northern … Read More
