July 18, 2025
(NPR) – Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare[dot]gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday. The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be … Read More
July 18, 2025
(UPI) – The United States officially won’t be involved in an enhanced pandemic global response enacted by the World Health Organization, the Trump administration said Friday. The International Health Regulations Amendments approved on June 1, 2024, would allow the WHO … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Nature) – Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child. In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of … Read More
July 18, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A UK team announced the births of eight babies born with DNA from three people. But around the world, others have already been born. This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the … Read More
July 18, 2025
(SF Gate) – The living nightmare of Tonya Walker’s disappearance and death is part of an alleged pattern of wrongdoing by a multibillion-dollar health care company that operates dozens of hospitals across California. Dignity Health has been accused of “callous, reckless, … Read More
July 18, 2025
(STAT News) – The Office for Human Research Protections’ work is critical — and now has less support than ever Deciding whether to participate in a clinical research study can be difficult, especially for people who are newly diagnosed with … Read More
July 18, 2025
(New York Post) – She did think it was a little strange that the organization said it had already chosen a Chinese couple to be the parents of the baby she would eventually sign up to carry. “I didn’t have … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Cloverdeal Reporter) – Tamara Jansen, MP for Cloverdale-Langley City, has brought forth a private member’s bill regarding Medical Assistance in Dying and mental illness. She introduced Bill C-218 in Parliament June 20. The legislation seeks to block the Liberal Government’s … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Aeon) – Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all? Cancer was no longer a shameful obscenity but a rallying cry. Shattering the silence … Read More
July 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem. Calling loneliness an epidemic transforms a feeling into … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Local governments in China have tried mostly in vain to lift the country’s shrinking birthrate with perks, cash rewards and housing subsidies. Now, the central government is stepping in. Beijing plans to pay a basic national … Read More
July 18, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Facing government pressure and massive budget shortfalls, the group is increasingly torn between its healthcare mission and progressive advocacy. As it faces this potentially dire future, Planned Parenthood is also contending with an identity crisis that … Read More
July 17, 2025
(NBC News) – President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with a condition that causes blood to pool in his legs after he was examined for “mild swelling in his lower legs,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. At … Read More
July 17, 2025
(NBC News) – Some researchers suspect the trend has to do with obesity and diet. Others point to changes in the gut microbiome. Gastrointestinal cancers, which include colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer, are rising dramatically in younger adults, though doctors … Read More
July 17, 2025
(STAT News) – After a decade-long rise in suicide rates among young Americans — and with depression diagnoses soaring in this age group during the pandemic — the U.S. surgeon general issued a report in 2021 warning about the “devastating” … Read More
July 17, 2025
(AP) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Wired) – The US is experiencing its worst year for measles in over three decades, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states as of July 16. Cases were almost as high in 2019, putting the country’s measles elimination status … Read More
July 17, 2025
(New York Times) – Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, … Read More
July 17, 2025
(BBC) – Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. The world’s biggest human imaging project says it has now hit its … Read More
July 17, 2025
(The Economist) – Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further In fact, things are better than many realise. The progress is plain from the data and there is every reason to think … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Wired) – A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Esquire) – In the fall of 2003, I slipped on the ice leaving my office one night. My hip hurt for a year afterward, but mostly I ignored it. When the pain didn’t go away, I saw my doctor, who … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Washington Post) – Investors say genetic prediction services for embryos, used by Elon Musk and others, are a trust fund for future children. Many scientists are skeptical. Siddiqui is a rising starin the realm of fertility start-ups backed by tech … Read More
July 17, 2025
(The Verge) – A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works. The filing alleges … Read More
July 16, 2025
(New York Times) – When it comes to mental health, most treatments for conditions like depression or anxiety come with caveats. Medications work for some symptoms, but can exacerbate others. Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective for many patients, but not … Read More
