September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – As more states have legalized the sale of cannabis, a fractured and inconsistent legal framework has emerged across the country that has prioritized sales income and tax revenue over public health, a new report finds. The … Read More
September 26, 2024
(NPR) – States that passed anti-transgender laws aimed at minors saw suicide attempts by transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers increase by as much as 72% in the following years, a new study by The Trevor Project says. The peer-reviewed study, … Read More
September 25, 2024
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 23, 2024
(NBC News) – Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during … Read More
September 20, 2024
(Delaware Online) – Silverio died on Jan. 7, 2018. Block died two months later, on March 3, 2018. Knothe died this week, on Sept. 16, 2024. None of them lived long enough to have those options in Delaware. And Gov. … Read More
September 19, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 9, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 18, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – US policymakers have an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ approach to regulating artificial intelligence, with bills that are as varied as the definitions of AI itself. More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are … Read More
September 16, 2024
(ProPublica) – At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories. In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from … Read More
September 12, 2024
(The Atlantic) – In the two-plus years since Roe was overturned, a handful of studies have cataloged the moral distress of doctors across the country. In one, 96 percent of providers who care for pregnant women in states with restrictive … Read More
September 10, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Report details real examples of how abortion bans have led to poor medical care The research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), based at the University of California San Francisco, launched its Care Post-Roe study … Read More
September 3, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Assisted suicide was sold as compassionate. In practice it has turned out to be monstrous. The new law dropped safeguards, such as the minimum 10-day assessment period between request and provision. It also proposed mental illness … Read More
September 3, 2024
(Axios) – Tens of thousands of Texans have traveled out of state for abortions since the state’s ban took effect — more than from any other state, due to Texas’ large population and the restrictiveness of the law. Why it … Read More
September 2, 2024
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 30, 2024
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 27, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 29, 2024
(NBC News) – Twenty-six states now have restrictions on transgender health care for minors, according to the LGBTQ think tank Movement Advancement Project. The laws have left those still able to provide this type of care, like Goepferd, struggling to … Read More
August 29, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 26, 2024
(NPR) – More than 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant. But an ongoing kidney shortage means a thousand people a month are removed from the waitlist, either because they die while waiting for a kidney … Read More
August 22, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 20, 2024
(CBS News) – At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Tech Crunch) – California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley. Today, California lawmakers bent slightly to that pressure, adding in several amendments suggested by AI firm Anthropic and other … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Institutions say it is safe and opens hospital beds, but policymakers fear it’s too pricey and lacks strict standards Around the country, more than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and … Read More
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – An emerging movement against in vitro fertilization is driving some doctors and patients in red states to move or destroy frozen embryos. The embryo migration is most striking in Alabama, where the State Supreme Court ruled … Read More
August 12, 2024
(Axios) – In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road. Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is health care’s biggest wild card. But it’s drawing hundreds … Read More
