January 31, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – Surgical patients hate pain, but sometimes they need to feel it. They wake up too slowly from general anesthesia and forget to breathe. Shouting fails to rouse them. Putting an alcohol swab under their noses is … Read More
January 29, 2025
(The Telegraph) – DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom One of the abiding truths about technological innovation is that what starts off as clunky and barely worth the time and effort required to use … Read More
January 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration, let alone reverses it. That dismal lack of progress is partly because of the infinite complexity of the human brain, which … Read More
January 20, 2025
(New York Times) – The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea that we can live longer, healthier lives by emulating long-lived people. It is a comforting thought, … Read More
January 13, 2025
(New York Times) – A provocative large study published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that at least one-fourth of people who appear unresponsive actually are conscious enough to understand language. As a doctor who sometimes … Read More
January 13, 2025
(The Conversation) – The advent of evidence-based medicine meant clinicians identified the most effective treatment options for their patients based on quality evaluations of the latest research. Now, precision medicine is enabling providers to use a patient’s individual genetic, environmental … Read More
January 10, 2025
(Plough) – Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company. Say, for example, you’re a college English teacher, and a significant portion of the nation’s venture capitalists … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Imagine a pro quarterback stepping onto the field without his coach running pregame drills or a pop star taking the stage without vocal warm-ups. In sports and music, such last-minute preparation is generally nonnegotiable. Coaches review … Read More
January 7, 2025
(Vox) – We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but then became … Read More
January 7, 2025
(The Conversation) – The use of neurotechnology in the workplace has global implications and high stakes. Advocates say neurotechnology can encourage economic growth and the betterment of society. Those against neurotechnology caution that it could fuel inequity and undermine democracy, … Read More
January 3, 2025
(Slate) – It was supposed to make my pregnancy journey easier. Instead, it became an emotional and medical battleground. One in five American women experiences infertility. As many as 52 percent of them suffer from depression because of it. Not only … Read More
January 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The takeaway from these and similar parables is clear, Dr. Sharfstein says: Crisis can be a powerful catalyst for shaping policy and improving society. But just like any such tool, it can be misused as easily … Read More
January 2, 2025
(World) – In 1996, pain was declared the “fifth vital sign,” ranking alongside blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and body temperature when assessing a patient’s state of health. But this “fifth vital sign” was not declared by the surgeon general … Read More
December 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Medical authorities are reclassifying life-saving procedures to make a political statement. The intent when managing PPROM is to balance the needs of mother and baby, and the best-case scenario is to preserve both their lives. The … Read More
December 24, 2024
(STAT News) – In the wake of the tragic murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, all of us who serve in health care must take time to pause and reflect on how we move forward. As a religious sister and … Read More
December 20, 2024
(National Post) – A new report from Health Canada confirms that more than 60,000 lives have been lost to “medical assistance in dying” in Canada between 2016 and 2023. Euthanasia was supposed be the exception to the rule, but Canada … Read More
December 16, 2024
(Undark) – When providing health care for new immigrants and refugees, the world’s faraway conflicts fall sharply into focus. I work in a clinic in Toronto that largely serves patients who are newcomers to our country, many of whom are … Read More
December 16, 2024
(New York Times) – The people of UnitedHealth Group are nurses, doctors, patient and client advocates, technologists and more. They all come to work each day to provide critical health services for millions of Americans in need. We know the … Read More
December 11, 2024
(STAT News) – Decades ago, the health insurance business put in place a dike to hide and contain the public’s disdain for for-profit health insurers, and to keep reformers at bay. Now, that dike might collapse. As the former VP … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Undark) – New dialogues are emerging about what comes next in biology, 25 years after completion of a draft of the human genome. In today’s world, post-genomic is built on two important ideas: that, as previously mentioned, doing genomics is … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bhattacharya believes “very strongly that I have a purpose … Read More
December 4, 2024
(The Guardian) – I gave away my genetic information to a now imploding company for results that inspired nothing but ambivalence 23andMe is facing implosion. As the once-promising genetic testing company flounders – losing 98% of its $6bn value, all … Read More
December 4, 2024
(New York Times) – In the time since she left us, I have thought often of Orli’s question. All that spring, Orli asked, pointedly, why did we think a cure was still possible, that cancer would not continue to return? … Read More
December 2, 2024
(The Spectator) – Those all seem to me good, cogent and to my mind compelling arguments for rejecting the proposed bill on Assisted Dying. Yet I can’t help thinking that Christian faith still has something deeper to bring to this … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Nature) – By changing how contracts are done, institutions can move away from exploitative research practices. Historically, the people and institutions that carry out research related to Indigenous peoples have assumed that they own those data — they can share … Read More
