June 23, 2026
(NPR) – Two developments often get lost in the public’s perception of the abortion wars. One is that there were nearly twice as many abortions in the U.S. in 2025, compared to 2021, the year before the Supreme Court overturned … Read More
June 23, 2026
(NYT) – That drug, Trikafta, produced by Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals, has made it possible for people with cystic fibrosis to breathe easily and live longer. Vertex sells a year’s supply of it for about $346,000 in the United States. The … Read More
June 23, 2026
(BBC) – A trial examining the risks or benefits of drugs that can delay puberty for gender-questioning children will help reduce harm, according to the author of a landmark review. Dr Hilary Cass said she was “absolutely convinced that more … Read More
June 23, 2026
(Axios) – States are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence to help manage their social safety net programs and reduce worker caseloads, but advocates warn there’s little evidence of safeguards around the technology. Why it matters: AI systems can hallucinate and make … Read More
June 23, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Plenty of people are seemingly starting to feel like depleted AI babysitters. When Boston Consulting Group recently surveyed roughly 1,500 workers across several roles at major American companies, the firm found that many workers were experiencing “mental … Read More
June 23, 2026
(WSJ) – Doctors are looking for options given growing awareness of serious health risks tied to childhood obesity Now, even elementary schoolers are being put on popular weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy. By prescribing GLP-1 medications early, doctors say they … Read More
June 23, 2026
(Wired) – Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model’s guardrails can’t be circumvented. Security experts say that can’t be done. Independent cybersecurity experts have increasingly taken the … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Mother Jones) – The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.” And this notion of creating superbabies to stop the rise of something akin to Skynet from The Terminator is capturing the fancy—and … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Pew Research) – More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a … Read More
June 22, 2026
(The Atlantic) – A weight-loss medication eased Serena Williams’s comeback. Experts can’t agree on whether that counts as doping. Before Serena Williams picked up her racket at London’s Andy Murray Arena last week, two questions hung over her return to … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Wired) – A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they’re naked from the neck down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide. A clinic in London, … Read More
June 22, 2026
(The Atlantic) – This is health care’s Uber moment. “I get a little bit queasy about how some of these results might be used,” Adam Rodman, a lead author on the study, said at a press conference just ahead of … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Ars Technica) – The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that has dubbed its new therapeutic larvae MediFly … Read More
June 22, 2026
(ABC News) – An artificial intelligence (AI) model is helping some patients get diagnoses after years of unexplained illness, according to a new study. Researchers from OpenAI and Boston Children’s Hospital took the existing genetic data of 18 pediatric patients … Read More
June 22, 2026
(CNBC) – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape rules and standards around artificial intelligence at a meeting with tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, CNBC … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Le Monde) – A model derived from Grok, the ‘Grok Gov Model,’ is being used in a US military AI-assisted targeting program, according to the Pentagon. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them. In the early 2010s, a social-work researcher named Jooyoung Kong, now a professor at … Read More
June 19, 2026
(Undark) – Consumer devices that monitor heart rate, glucose, and sleep cycles need better validation to be clinically useful. In the 21st century, wearable monitoring has followed two paths: one that includes medical-grade devices, which are designed for clinical use; … Read More
June 19, 2026
(Nature) – Influencers and ultra-rich people looking to extend their lifespan are trading tips and tricks on how to eke out extra years. Nir Barzilai, president of the Academy of Geroscience and a genetics researcher at Albert Einstein College of … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have discovered the oldest traces of one of humanity’s greatest enemies. Examining skeletons of … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – Surveys of over half a million Americans from the last decade and a half revealed an uncomfortable truth: Despite its advantages, remote work has significantly deepened Americans’ isolation and distress. Our estimates, published in Science this month with … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NBC News) – Tiffany Score and Steven Mills reached a custody agreement with the little girl’s biological parents, court records show. In a court filing Friday, Mara Hatfield, Score and Mills’ attorney, wrote that her clients and Patient 004 had … Read More
June 19, 2026
(The Atlantic) – It’s sin. For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new … Read More
June 18, 2026
(AFP via Yahoo!) – Rising temperatures caused by human-driven global warming have given mosquitoes — and the many pathogens they spread — “an increasingly vast playing field,” she warned. According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of the world’s … Read More
June 18, 2026
(Washington Post) – A new study pinpoints how many minutes per week of strength training might help people avoid death from conditions including heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. The links were especially strong for cardiovascular disease and neurological conditions. The data … Read More
