August 21, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – ‘Friends’ star spent his life searching for healing in a world willing to sell it It was that persistent search for a solution that led Perry to try ketamine, the dissociative drug that federal prosecutors in … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Kaiser Permanente AI chief Daniel Yang is on the front line of deploying artificial intelligence as well as testing its bounds; ‘We did identify some hallucinations’ Yang, an internal-medicine physician, arrived last year at the California-based … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Axios) – An implant that responds to brain signals in real time was shown to ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease instantaneously in a limited trial of whether “closed loop” technology can help patients as they go about their daily lives. … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Quartz) – The FDA had previously opened an investigation into the issue People taking the drug behind Novo Nordisk’s (NVO) popular Ozempic were found to report suicidal thoughts at a higher rate than people taking other drugs, according to a … Read More
August 20, 2024
(CBS News) – There’s been plenty of excitement and concern about how artificial intelligence could upend lives. One giant benefit could be changes in medical care, with some calling AI medicine’s biggest moment since antibiotics. Brook Silva-Braga puts the endless … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Reuters) – A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its spread. “We can and must tackle … Read More
August 20, 2024
(CBS News) – At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Axios) – For a third year, back-to-school preparations will include a scramble to find popular drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Why it matters: Despite signs from the Food and Drug Administration that manufacturers were catching up to … Read More
August 19, 2024
(New York Times) – In huge numbers, older people are taking gabapentin for a variety of conditions, including itching, alcohol dependence and sciatica. “It’s crazy,” one expert said. The only conditions for which gabapentin has been approved for adult use … Read More
August 19, 2024
(ABC News) – Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global … Read More
August 19, 2024
(New York Times) – In a new frontier for deep brain stimulation, researchers used A.I. to develop individualized algorithms, which helped a skateboarder and other patients with Parkinson’s disease. In the study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature … Read More
August 19, 2024
(Axios) – Women who received uterus transplants have delivered more than 70 infants worldwide since the first successful transplant in 2011, with 20 cases at a Texas medical center showing about the same success rate as with natural wombs, per … Read More
August 16, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Matthew Perry overdosed on anesthetic that Mindbloom is sending by mail A startup that sends ketamine by mail to people’s homes has added injectable doses to its product line, making a risky practice even riskier, doctors … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lisa is among a small number of patients who have taken to hacking their injection pens. (I’m identifying Lisa and other patients in this story by only their first names to protect their medical privacy.) As new … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Black men and women are at least two times as likely as white Americans to die from strokes. Hospitals around the country have long sought to bring those numbers down. Now, the Cleveland Clinic, a prestigious … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Wired) – In a world first, Harvard biologists worked with Google to diagram a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex at the subcellular level, paving the way for the next generation of brain science. This image could be hung in … Read More
August 15, 2024
(The Atlantic) – As artificial limbs become more advanced, branding is becoming almost inescapable. Bionic (or myoelectric) limbs, which are operated by muscle and nerve impulses to more closely mimic the movements and operation of a real limb, have evolved … Read More
August 15, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The previously unreported program to capture facial images of children crossing the border is designed to improve facial recognition algorithms. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Reuters) – A man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who had lost his ability to speak has been able to communicate with a Blackrock Neurotech text-to-speech brain implant, researchers said in one of two new studies showing the promise of … Read More
August 15, 2024
(NPR) – On June 10, the Biden administration announced some protections meant to tighten cybersecurity in healthcare. The announcement included a plan for tech companies Google and Microsoft to offer various cybersecurity services for free or at discounted prices, to … Read More
August 14, 2024
(CNN) – Thousands of doctors have gone on strike across India to demand better protection for health workers after a trainee medic was raped and murdered in eastern West Bengal state. The resident doctor’s body was found last Friday with multiple injuries … Read More
August 14, 2024
(New York Times) – Many patients thought to be in vegetative or minimally conscious states may be capable of thought, researchers reported. Teams of neurologists at six research centers asked 241 unresponsive patients to spend several minutes at a time … Read More
August 14, 2024
(STAT News) – STAT spoke with Mariska Vansteensel, a neuroscientist at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands and president of the international BCI Society, about the field and about a new study that she and her colleagues just published … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Associated Press) – Experts say generative AI tools can help people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — who experience difficulties with focusing, organizing and controlling impulses — to get through tasks quicker. But they also caution that it shouldn’t replace … Read More
