September 12, 2024
(The Hill) – Murthy noted in the advisory that parents now grapple with the “complexity of managing social media … concerns about the youth mental health crisis, and an epidemic of loneliness that disproportionately affects young people.” Psychologists and parenting … Read More
September 12, 2024
(NBC News) – Health officials theorize it could be a “one-off” case, in which the infection wasn’t passed along to anyone else. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of … Read More
September 12, 2024
(New York Times) – New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants. Psychosis and mania are each known side effects of stimulant medications, and the Food and Drug Administration has added warnings … Read More
September 12, 2024
(The Atlantic) – In the two-plus years since Roe was overturned, a handful of studies have cataloged the moral distress of doctors across the country. In one, 96 percent of providers who care for pregnant women in states with restrictive … Read More
September 11, 2024
(New York Times) – About one in six adults — and about a quarter of adults younger than 30 — use chatbots to find medical advice and information at least once a month, according to a recent survey from KFF, … Read More
September 11, 2024
(ProPublica) – Ravi didn’t know it, but he, like millions of Americans, was trapped in a “ghost network.” As some of those people have discovered, the providers listed in an insurer’s network have either retired or died. Many other providers … Read More
September 11, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences identified a compound that affects an area of the brain that triggers hormone production. The age when girls hit puberty has been falling at an alarming rate for … Read More
September 11, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Google researchers claim to have made a breakthrough in quantum error correction, one that could pave the way for quantum computers that finally live up to the technology’s promise. Proponents of quantum computers say the machines … Read More
September 11, 2024
(Axios) – Apple is giving its Apple Watch a tool to detect sleep apnea and its AirPods the ability to both test and treat hearing loss, the company announced this week. Why it matters: With the new features, Apple is … Read More
September 10, 2024
(ABC News) – A 12-day campaign to stop the polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip moved into its third and final phase today, an effort to vaccinate about 150,000 children in the northern part of the war-torn territory. Its previous … Read More
September 10, 2024
(New York Times) – Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found. Obstetricians are more likely to give Black women unnecessary cesarean … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Axios) – A fightis brewing between drug giantsand pharmacy compounders that have seized on the consumer demand for blockbuster obesity drugs. Why it matters: The clash is testing the boundaries of Food and Drug Administration policy that allows pharmacies to … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Axios) – About one in five U.S. COVID deaths during the Delta wave were because of overwhelmed hospital capacity, an analysis of data from 620 facilities showed. Why it matters: The findings in Annals of Internal Medicine reinforce the need … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Wired) – With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to combat infections. The global rise in antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease … Read More
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns. A study of adolescent brain development that tested children before and after coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the United … Read More
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Patients received “substantial” payments, their lawyers said, and the clinic agreed to staffing changes. Yale agreed on Monday to pay dozens of patients who had filed lawsuits claiming that they had endured excruciatingly painful egg retrieval … Read More
September 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Such promotion was banned until 1997, when the FDA reluctantly allowed pharmaceutical ads on TV, so long as they gave an accurate accounting of a medicine’s true benefits and risks, including a list of potential side … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Axios) – Giving birth became measurably riskier during the pandemic, as factors causing complications — from obesity and diabetes to mental health issues — rose 20% between 2020 and 2023, according to a FAIR Health analysis shared first with Axios. … Read More
September 9, 2024
(NBC News) – Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, was nearly eliminated in the U.S. at the beginning of the 21st century but has made a dramatic comeback. In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 200,000 … Read More
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – A generation ago, bioethicists fought over whether assisted reproductive technology would be normalized or made taboo. Now there’s strong public consensus that it should be not only tolerated but also celebrated. But this may be a … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – More companies and government agencies out in the wild want to read our body parts. The Transportation Security Administration, for example, started scanning passengers’ faces instead of checking IDs. These groups say the biometric processes are … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Women nationwide will soon learn from testing whether they have dense breast tissue that puts them at higher risk The Food and Drug Administration starting Sept. 10 will require that women nationwide be notified whether their … Read More
September 9, 2024
(The Hill) – The first person without known contact with an animal has been infected with the the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird or avian flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Friday. The case, detected … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Vogue) – We are an anxious nation, an anxious world. Look at the news and it is there for everyone to see. Some 16 percent of the US adult population takes medication for mental health (a figure measured pre-pandemic; one … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Beijing formally ends a program that was propelled by birth restrictions and that had been largely on hold since the pandemic China said it was formally ending almost all international adoptions, shutting down a process that … Read More
