February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a probe into leading technology companies’ content policies and user bans, Chair Andrew Ferguson announced Thursday, suggesting their actions could amount to illegal censorship. “Big Tech censorship is not just … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … Read More
February 21, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 19, 2025
(NPR) – President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday evening with the goal of expanding access to and lowering the cost of the infertility treatment known as IVF, or in vitro fertilization. The order directs Trump’s assistant for domestic policy to … Read More
February 18, 2025
(JAMA) – In this issue of JAMA, 2 articles characterize the impact of recent state abortion restrictions. Applying observational causal inference methods, the authors estimate a 1.7% increase in birth rates from abortion restrictions in affected states (corresponding to about 22 000 excess … Read More
February 17, 2025
(Deseret News) – Surgical sterilization is on the rise among young American women during a global fertility crisis. What are unintended consequences of the decision? While elective sterilization is a personal decision, it is not without societal costs, particularly in … Read More
February 14, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Flu has been brutal this season. The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October. At the same time, the bird flu outbreak continues to infect … Read More
February 14, 2025
(New York Times) – It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans. In a case that could have major … Read More
February 13, 2025
(Associated Press) – The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and he was then sworn in as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs … Read More
February 12, 2025
(The Hill) – A federal judge in Boston has ordered a temporary pause nationwide on plans by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to substantially reduce “indirect” research payments to universities, medical centers and other recipients. Judge Angel Kelley of … Read More
February 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Trump. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue … Read More
February 11, 2025
(STAT News) – Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block a major policy change by the National Institutes of Health that would substantially limit payments for research overhead to … Read More
February 10, 2025
(USA Today) – Many in Ballinger’s hospital − which serves a high immigrant population in one of the most diverse regions in the U.S. − have worried about threats of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Officials in New York City have … Read More
February 7, 2025
(NPR) – For years, people like Valdez have often been left to fend for themselves when seeking health care services after their release from jail, prison, or other carceral facilities. Despite this population’s high rate of mental health problems and … Read More
February 6, 2025
(NPR) – Scientists and public health leaders are taking stock of the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to pull down web pages, datasets and selected information from federal health websites. Some of the pages on the Center for Disease Control and … Read More
February 6, 2025
(New York Times) – The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned … Read More
February 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices, over new security concerns that the app could provide user information to the Chinese government. The legislation written by Reps. … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Washington Post) – Soup kitchens can no longer feed the hungry. First responders are unable to reach the dead and wounded. Mothers and fathers search in vain for the medicines that keep them alive. Across Africa, in bombed-out Sudanese cities, … Read More
February 4, 2025
(Nature) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped … Read More
February 4, 2025
(New York Times) – Intense backlash prompted the reinstatement of some online resources. But guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care remain missing. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention purged from its … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — the world’s leading HIV initiative – was covered by a waiver for life-saving humanitarian assistance during a 90-day pause in foreign … Read More
February 3, 2025
(The Times) – A palliative care doctor is called to A&E to attend to an elderly man who has arrived in severe pain with metastasised prostate cancer. “I just want to die,” he tells her. Yet when she sits with … Read More
January 28, 2025
(The Telegraph) – Terminally ill patients given six months to live often survive for three years, official figures have revealed, fuelling fresh concern over assisted dying becoming legal Patients who are given a prognosis of six months by their doctors … Read More
January 27, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online.
January 24, 2025
American Journal of Law & Medicine (vol. 50, no. 1-2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
