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
August 7, 2024
(Associated Press) – The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths … Read More
August 5, 2024
(The Guardian) – Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – … Read More
August 5, 2024
Public Health Ethics (vol. 17, no. 1-2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 22, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2024
(ABC News) – The Senate passed two key pieces of legislation aimed at keeping children safe on the internet Tuesday afternoon, marking a major step in Congress’ ongoing effort to regulate massive tech companies. The two bills, which beef up … Read More
July 29, 2024
(Newsweek) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is to sue the Biden administration to stop a federal program that gives birth control to teens without parental consent. Title X, introduced in 1970, allows contraception to be given without parental consent. … Read More
July 29, 2024
(KETV Omaha) — The state’s highest court ruled Friday to uphold LB 574, the law that bans abortions at 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors. The law had been tied up in a legal battle after Planned Parenthood tried … Read More
July 29, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 25, 2024
(Reuters) – The backlash reflects growing fears in Canada over the use of narcotics in public spaces, encampments where drug use is seen as common, and the specter of needles in playgrounds. Some critics of the so-called harm reduction programs … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Axios) – Congress’ boldest effort to date to crack down on social media platforms and protect kids’ mental health is stoking a debate over whether the remedy could end up making youths less safe. Why it matters: Curbing sources of … Read More
