September 23, 2024
(NBC News) – Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during … Read More
September 23, 2024
(CBS News) – Drugmakers have decided to stop selling a kind of controversial fentanyl painkiller at the end of this month, the Food and Drug Administration said this week, marking an end to a controversial brand of “fentanyl lollipops” and … Read More
September 23, 2024
(ABC News) – For almost a week, ophthalmologist Elias Jaradeh has worked around the clock, trying to keep up with the flood of patients whose eyes were injured when pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse across Lebanon. He has lost … Read More
September 20, 2024
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized at-home use of FluMist, opening the door for needle-shy people to have easy access to a nasal spray vaccine that is potentially lifesaving. The approval will allow, for … Read More
September 20, 2024
(New York Times) – The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin products and forced patients to pay more. The Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that it … Read More
September 20, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Deb Jenssen never wanted her children to suffer from the disease that killed her brother at 28. The illness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, initially manifests in childhood as trouble with strength and walking, then worsens until the heart … Read More
September 20, 2024
(The Hedgehog Review) – During the last fifty years, the field of medical humanities—particularly the subfields of bioethics, narrative medicine, and social justice—has tried to help doctors deal with some of these issues. But the new environment in which doctors … Read More
September 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Makers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are offering discounts to encourage more insurance coverage of the medicines A price battle has broken out in the hot market for weight-loss drugs. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the … Read More
September 19, 2024
(Nature) – Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission. All eyes are on Missouri. Researchers are anxiously awaiting data from the midwestern state about a mysterious bird … Read More
September 19, 2024
(NPR) – Researchers had found genetic evidence that raccoon dogs, an exotic species known to be susceptible to the virus, were among the animals for sale at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak was first identified. Now … Read More
September 19, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Scientists have now been studying microplastic for 20 years, since a paper in 2004 first used the term, and have started on nanoplastics, the vanishingly small versions that build up in organs. In that time, human exposure … Read More
September 19, 2024
(Axios) – The United States has one of the most inefficient health care systems among high-income countries, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. Why it matters: Administrative hurdles like requirements that insurers sign off on care before … Read More
September 19, 2024
(Wired) – A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI. A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for … Read More
September 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Scientists continue to rethink the idea that moderate drinking offers health benefits. Adults under age 50 have been developing breast cancer and colorectal cancer at increasingly higher rates over the last few decades, and alcohol use … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wired) – SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse. There’s only one real human in the SocialAI equation. That person is you. The new iOS app is designed to let you … Read More
September 18, 2024
(NPR) – For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Plough) – If only her parents had been spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability. “My husband and I decided that it was a loving decision not to bring her into … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wired) – OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Axios) – Instagram on Tuesday announced major changes to teen accounts that give parents more control over their teen’s messaging and content settings. Why it matters: Worldwide, over 100 million accounts will likely be impacted. The big picture: The company … Read More
September 18, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – US policymakers have an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ approach to regulating artificial intelligence, with bills that are as varied as the definitions of AI itself. More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NBC News) – Enterovirus D68 is linked to rare cases of the polio-like illness acute myelitis, or AFM. So far this year, the CDC has confirmed 13 cases of AFM. A respiratory virus that sometimes paralyzes children is spreading across … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NBC News) – The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect. A Swedish … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Tech Crunch) – Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean the outfit has developed a cure for blindness, no matter what Musk might say. The breakthrough … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Nature) – Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown. Millions of adults around the world take potent drugs such as Wegovy to shed pounds. … Read More
