July 9, 2025
(ICIJ) – A surge in private equity funding for hospitals left a trail of crushing debts, patient detentions and broken promises. In over 70 interviews, former and current doctors, nurses and executives from [International Finance Corp]-backed facilities in Kenya and … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Associated Press) – The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence, according to two senior officials and a cable sent last week … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Nature) – Better stress assessment and tailored interventions could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage. Decades of research have shown that, although short bursts of stress can be healthy, unrelenting stress contributes to heart disease, … Read More
July 9, 2025
(CNN) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in cases. “As reports of animal infections with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”) have … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare-fraud unit is investigating UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices, including how the giant company deployed doctors and nurses to gather diagnoses that bolstered its payments, people familiar with the matter said. The … Read More
July 9, 2025
(Washington Post) – Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region. The first malaria drug for newborn babies and those weighing less … Read More
July 9, 2025
(NBC News) – Asian American and Pacific Islander women under 50 are now tied with white women for the highest breast cancer rates. Experts point to westernization, increased screenings and more. Since 2000, breast cancer incidence among Asian American and … Read More
July 8, 2025
(NBC News) – There’s been little evidence on how well CBD works or guidance on how to safely use capsules, edibles or oils that contain cannabidiol. Over the course of four weeks, 201 volunteers received either 5 mg per kilogram … Read More
July 8, 2025
(BBC) – The first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use. It’s expected to be rolled out in African countries within weeks. Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for … Read More
July 8, 2025
(BBC) – In a rural village close to the Ukrainian front line, a group of women queue quietly outside a purple and white ambulance, waiting to be seen by a doctor with his shaved head dyed the blue and yellow … Read More
July 8, 2025
(KFF Health News) – As many Americans have grown increasingly intolerant of street homelessness, cities and states have returned to tough-on-crime approaches that penalize people for living outside and for substance use disorders. But the Skid Row facility shows Los … Read More
July 8, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – It’s a common view among neuroscientists that building brainlike neural networks is one of the most promising paths for the field, and that attitude has started to spread to psychology. Last week, the prestigious journal Nature … Read More
July 8, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Although many skeptics have overreacted, rejecting sound science in favor of quack theories, they’ve gotten one thing right: A noble profession has been corrupted by politics. This became obvious during the pandemic, but the politicization of the … Read More
July 8, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The story unfolds so rapidly that it can all seem, at a glance, preordained. After transferring to Columbia last fall, as Chungin “Roy” Lee tells it, he used AI to cheat his way through school, used AI … Read More
July 8, 2025
(Axios) – Children’s physical and mental health declined across multiple measures over the 17 years ending in 2023, according to new research led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Why it matters: The findings published Monday in JAMA offer some … Read More
July 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The smell of decay wafted through the air in the searing heat, guiding volunteers in search of flash-flood victims. Teams of volunteers along with state and local officials on Tuesday fanned out on foot, horseback and … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Today) – A woman who thinks she may have up to 700 siblings out there is calling for better regulation of Australia’s IVF industry. Katherine Dawson has the medical technology to thank for giving her life, but after starting the … Read More
July 7, 2025
(The Guardian) – Scientists are just a few years from creating viable human sex cells in the lab, according to an internationally renowned pioneer of the field, who says the advance could open up biology-defying possibilities for reproduction. Speaking to … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Axios) – There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to pass the highest annual count since the disease was declared eliminated … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s ‘frustrating as somebody who’s looking for, I mean, my whole family, almost,’ says Hailey Chavarria, as searches enter third day The search for those swept away by punishing flash floods in Central Texas over the … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Abortion is now banned or heavily restricted in about one-third of U.S. states, and some women of childbearing age say that has introduced a new calculus about where to live and work. Though migration patterns are … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Axios) – It’s not food, it’s not chewing tobacco and it’s not gum — though it might look like it when you see it — but it is becoming America’s new addictive obsession. Why it matters: Sales of Zyn nicotine … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Among nearly 2,000 of these types of facilities nationwide, at least 16 of them have filed for chapter 11 since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, according to a Wall Street Journal review of court … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Wired) – As psychedelic companies and therapy apps experiment with AI, people are already taking huge doses of drugs and using chatbots to process their trips. He recently asked the app’s “chat with your mind” function how he had become … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Nieman Lab) – Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs — interspersed with … Read More
