June 19, 2025
(New York Times) – Modern miners are contracting it at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. For 20th-century miners, it could take decades to develop severe black lung. For men of Aundra Brock’s generation, just a … Read More
June 19, 2025
(CBS News) – At least 3% of measles cases confirmed so far this year have been in people who received two doses of the measles vaccine, meaning they were fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. About … Read More
June 19, 2025
(Reuters) – The U.S. government is expected to eliminate from its dietary guidelines the long-standing recommendation that adults limit alcohol consumption to one or two drinks per day, according to three sources familiar with the matter, in what could be … Read More
June 19, 2025
(Wired) – A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret. As AI takes over our lives, it’s also promising … Read More
June 17, 2025
(M Live) – In 1970, thanks to Baby Boomers, Michigan had four times more children than senior citizens. That year, 37% of state residents were children under age 18 while 8.5% of residents were 65 and older, according to the … Read More
June 16, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A drop in overdoses astounded public officials and health experts who traveled across the country to learn the formula and replicate it The formula: making recovery a community affair. Many of the initiatives making a difference … Read More
June 12, 2025
(Politico) – Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices, according to … Read More
June 12, 2025
(Axios) – The U.S. death rate from alcohol-related liver disease roughly doubled over two decades and was exacerbated by the pandemic, with women, young adults and Indigenous people experiencing the sharpest rise, a study in JAMA Network Open found. Why … Read More
June 11, 2025
(CBS Detroit via MSN) – A third Chinese national is accused of smuggling biological materials into the U.S. for work at a University of Michigan laboratory. Chengxuan Han, of the People’s Republic of China, is charged with smuggling goods into … Read More
June 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, … Read More
June 6, 2025
(The Conversation) – People often hear that health care in America is dysfunctional – too expensive, too complex and too inequitable. But dysfunction implies failure. What if the real problem is that the system is functioning exactly as it was … Read More
June 3, 2025
(The Washington Post) – They buzz, they bite, and they cause some of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. Mosquitos are perhaps the planet’s most universally reviled animals. If we could zap them off the face of the Earth, should … Read More
June 3, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Sir Tony Blair has urged Britain to embrace AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was ‘in the foothills’ of the biggest tranformation since the Industrial Revolution. The former prime minister claimed AI could have … Read More
June 3, 2025
(The Washington Post) – People with measles, a highly contagious disease, are traveling on airplanes, raising concerns about the spread of the respiratory virus as global cases rise and summer travel season gets underway in the United States. The Centers … Read More
June 3, 2025
(ABC News) – Most counties in the United States have seen a decline in childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates over the last five years, according to a new report published Monday. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University looked at … Read More
June 2, 2025
(The Guardian) — Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in menstrual … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Slate) — All the effort was for a microplastics blood test, the first designed to be taken at home. Testing human blood for microplastics is a relatively new thing. Until this home test came out, the process could be done … Read More
June 2, 2025
(ABC News) — It comes as the U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases for the 1st time in 5 years. Most counties in the United States have seen a decline in childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates over the last … Read More
May 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely counters Mr. … Read More
May 30, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said … Read More
May 30, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 18, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 29, 2025
(Wired) – Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. THE UNITED STATES … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by several public health experts. In a 58-second video … Read More
May 27, 2025
(The Independent) – It is hoped that the drug zosurabalpin will be approved by the end of the decade A new antibiotic that has the potential to save millions of lives has entered its last phase of human testing. Swiss … Read More
