August 14, 2024
(Associated Press) – The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Amid risks, volunteers are mobilizing to assist networks that mail abortion medication to women in states with strict limits The women huddling around the conference table shuttled the small cardboard boxes along, assembly-line style. Into each … Read More
August 14, 2024
(DNYUZ) – Three years later, however, no satisfactory explanation has been found, and the New Brunswick syndrome remains shrouded in mystery — and controversy. At the heart of the matter is the question of whether something in the environment may … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Institutions say it is safe and opens hospital beds, but policymakers fear it’s too pricey and lacks strict standards Around the country, more than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and … Read More
August 13, 2024
(The Guardian) – The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a “clarion call for action”. The outbreak has swept through several African countries, particularly … Read More
August 13, 2024
(New York Times) – The temperatures inside delivery trucks can reach twice the recommended threshold, but federal rules on drug storage conditions do not apply to the booming world of mail-order delivery. Melted capsules. Cloudy insulin. Pills that may no … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Biden administration says hospitals must offer abortions when needed to save a woman’s life, despite state bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago. Texas is … Read More
August 13, 2024
(The Verge) – The head of chatbot maker Replika discusses the role AI will play in the future of human relationships. Replika’s basic pitch is pretty simple: what if you had an AI friend? The company offers avatars you can … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Bloomberg) – The startup, co-founded by Sam Altman, is determined to verify every human on Earth, one iris at a time. Europe has a handful of major tech success stories, but it’s long trailed the US in terms of the … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Fox 13 Tampa Bay) – The southern Kentucky city of Bowling Green has reportedly emerged as a major center for weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. The share of people prescribed GLP-1 agonist drug prescriptions in and around … Read More
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The psychedelic treatment, for PTSD, was rejected last week by government regulators. The journal Psychopharmacology has retracted three papers about MDMA-assisted therapy based on what the publication said was unethical conduct at one of the study … Read More
August 12, 2024
(MedPage Today) – The FDA declined to approve midomafetamine (MDMA) capsules for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), calling for another trial to evaluate the drug’s efficacy and safety, developer Lykos Therapeutics announced on Friday. Lykos said the agency determined that the … Read More
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – An emerging movement against in vitro fertilization is driving some doctors and patients in red states to move or destroy frozen embryos. The embryo migration is most striking in Alabama, where the State Supreme Court ruled … Read More
August 12, 2024
(Axios) – In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road. Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is health care’s biggest wild card. But it’s drawing hundreds … Read More
August 12, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems. When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in late 2022, we were sold a vision of superintelligent AI tools that … Read More
August 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Many patients are eager to discontinue Wegovy or Zepbound when their weight loss plateaus. But doctors say it’s difficult to go cold turkey. “I can’t stop cold turkey or I will gain it back — that … Read More
August 9, 2024
(New York Times) – The condition has put significant strain on patients and society — at a global economic cost of about $1 trillion a year, a new report estimates. About 400 million people worldwide have been afflicted with long … Read More
August 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Violent altercations between residents in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. Across the country, residents in nursing homes or assisted living centers have been killed by other residents who weaponized a bedrail, shoved pillow stuffing into … Read More
August 9, 2024
(Nature) – An age ‘clock’ based on some 200 proteins found in the blood can predict a person’s risk of developing 18 chronic illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. The clock’s accuracy raises the prospect of developing … Read More
August 9, 2024
(Reuters) – The global and U.S. anti-doping agencies are at odds over undercover tactics used by the American body to try to catch drug cheats, Reuters has learned. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global … Read More
August 9, 2024
(BBC) – The first therapy that uses gene-editing is to be offered on the NHS in a “revolutionary breakthrough” for patients. It will be used as a potential cure for the blood disorder beta thalassaemia. Stem cells which make blood … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Wired) – The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface. In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company … Read More
August 8, 2024
(NPR) – As Bodansky and his colleagues report in the journal Nature, many children who developed MIS-C had an out-of-control immune response to COVID as a result of mistaken identity. Basically, these children’s immune systems locked onto a part of … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Babies born 22 weeks into pregnancy have increasingly better odds of survival—but parents often don’t know what’s possible Doctors are now capable of saving the lives of babies born at 22 weeks and, in rare cases, … Read More
August 8, 2024
(BBC) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced plans to send 1.2 million polio vaccines to Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater. The agency’s chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlined plans for two rounds of vaccination, targeting … Read More
