May 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Research raises questions about long-term treatment of and support for people using weight loss drugs People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown. … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Women are experiencing rising alcohol-related deaths at a faster clip than men, data show At bars and dinner tables across the U.S., women are throwing back more drinks—raising concerns about the health consequences of their alcohol … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Texas Observer) – Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution. Around May 2021, cryptominers migrated en masse to Texas for its cheap … Read More
May 13, 2025
(New York Times) – A new clinic, opened by a pulmonologist who lost his home in the Palisades blaze, is addressing the health issues developing among people exposed to the fires. Just three weeks after the blaze tore through neighborhoods … Read More
May 13, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Microbes can produce compounds that affect the way neurons work. They also influence the functioning of the immune system, which can have knock-on effects on the brain. And they seem to be able to communicate with … Read More
May 13, 2025
(UPI) – The number of Americans using illicit opioids, including fentanyl, is 20 times higher than previously estimated, according to a study published Friday by researchers from the RAND Corp. and the University of Southern California. Researchers said government counts … Read More
May 12, 2025
(NPR) – The U.S. ambassador to Zambia — Michael Gonzales — began his Thursday press conference on a somber note. After 29 minutes, he was wiping away tears. His distress goes back to a discovery made in late 2021: Medications … Read More
May 12, 2025
(The Independent) – This week, Weight Watchers, the company that commercialised the diet group and has reigned over the industry for around six decades, announced that it had filed for bankruptcy, reportedly in an attempt to eliminate $1.15bn (£863m) worth … Read More
May 8, 2025
(ABC News) – A new government study provides the most complete picture yet of early-onset cancers, finding that the largest increases are in breast, colorectal, kidney and uterine cancers. Scientists from the National Cancer Institute looked at data that included … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has chosen Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. The division oversees vaccines and biologic medicines, including … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Axios) – WeightWatchers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, saying it plans to slash debt and stay in business. Why it matters: The company has been grappling with sinking sales amid the surge of weight-loss drugs and changing health … Read More
May 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak, logging its first cases since 2011. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the … Read More
May 5, 2025
(The Guardian) – A leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada. The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in … Read More
May 5, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 30, 2025
(New York Times) – New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine. These chemicals, known … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. The key to preventing disasters like this is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks … Read More
April 28, 2025
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 46, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 25, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Federal regulators are asking Novavax to complete an additional randomized clinical trial on its Covid-19 vaccine after previously delaying approval, people familiar with the matter said, a request that could be so prohibitively expensive the company … Read More
April 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Many people recover from a bout of flu within a few days or a week. But every year, the virus still kills more than 36,000 people across the United States and sends hundreds of thousands to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Wired) – A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. Using a computer model, the authors found that with … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Axios) – Driving with a case of COVID raised the odds of having a car crash about as much as being at the legal threshold of DUI or running a red light, according to an analysis of pandemic-era public health … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Science) – Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic It took an extension to the extension of the extension, but after more than 3 years of negotiations, governments around … Read More
April 24, 2025
(NPR) – Men over 75 have the highest suicide rates in the U.S. There are many reasons for this, says Mary Gagnon, director of suicide prevention at NAMI Maine, a mental health nonprofit. Among them are loss, sickness and the … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Associated Press) – Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the CDC. That’s twice as many cases as this time … Read More
