December 6, 2023
(New York Times) – Dr. William P. Murphy Jr., a biomedical engineer who was an inventor of the vinyl blood bag that replaced breakable bottles in the Korean War and made transfusions safe and reliable on battlefields, in hospitals and … Read More
November 27, 2023
(Washington Post) – The death of former first lady Rosalynn Carter on Sunday, and the survival of her husband, former president Jimmy Carter, have exposed one of the most achingly difficult questions faced by people with life-threatening illness: when to … Read More
November 21, 2023
(UPI) – Google is celebrating Chinese Australian surgeon Dr. Victor Chang with a Doodle on what would’ve been his 87th birthday. Chang is a pioneer of cardiac and transplant surgery and is most known for the creating the St. Vincent’s … Read More
November 20, 2023
(NBC News) – Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady and humanitarian who championed mental health care, provided constant political counsel to her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, and modeled graceful longevity for the nation, died Sunday at her home in … Read More
October 10, 2023
(Washington Post) – In 1941, the American Medical Association warned against lobotomies, but by the time Moniz received the Nobel Prize, 10,000 had been performed in the United States alone. Most were done on women, and many patients died or … Read More
October 9, 2023
(CBS News) – The man who helped set today’s AI advancements in motion wants governments, companies and developers to carefully consider the best ways to safely advance the technology. Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence,” … Read More
October 2, 2023
(Associated Press) – Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer … Read More
September 11, 2023
(Associated Press) – Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a long illness … Read More
August 1, 2023
(STAT News) – For what would have been Henrietta Lacks’s 103th birthday, her family got her some justice: A settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific over the Massachusetts-based company’s use of cells obtained without her consent seven decades ago. The story … Read More
July 31, 2023
(New York Magazine) – Nearly three decades after leaving Harvard, van der Kolk is currently the world’s most famous living psychiatrist and the author of The Body Keeps the Score, which has spent 248 weeks on the New York Times … Read More
July 28, 2023
(The Guardian) – Weizenbaum had stumbled across the computerised version of transference, with people attributing understanding, empathy and other human characteristics to software. While he never used the term himself, he had a long history with psychoanalysis that clearly informed … Read More
July 25, 2023
(Forbes) – In 2013, Benjamin Oakes was hellbent on getting his PhD while working on the bleeding edge of molecular engineering: refining a gene editing tool, Crispr, that promised to some day cut DNA as precisely as a pair of … Read More
July 24, 2023
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – Writing about Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists requires a few disclosures first. The history of the Bulletin is inseparable from the history of the making of the nuclear bomb, … Read More
July 19, 2023
(STAT News) – In an abrupt turn, Stanford president and renowned neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he will step down as the university’s leader. His resignation came after he learned the results of an extensive investigation into his past … Read More
June 20, 2023
(Associated Press) – The Mississippi man known as “Case 1,” the first person to be diagnosed with autism, has died. Donald G. Triplett was the subject of a book titled “In a Different Key,” a PBS documentary film, BBC news … Read More
June 13, 2023
(New York Times) – Dr. Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 for his discovery that the seemingly benign human papillomavirus, known for causing warts, also caused cervical cancer, died on May … Read More
May 19, 2023
(STAT News) – Late in 1997, about six months before the FDA approved Viagra, I got a call from the head of the Pfizer Viagra team asking whether I might be interested in doing a consultation for them. He explained … Read More
May 16, 2023
(New York Times) – Amy Silverstein, a celebrated writer whose two memoirs, including “Sick Girl,” from 2007, recounted her grueling yet joyous odyssey through a life that required two heart transplants, died on May 5. She was 59. Her husband, … Read More
May 16, 2023
(Associated Press) – Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named Tuesday as winner of the 2023 Templeton … Read More
May 4, 2023
(The Economist) – FEARS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) have haunted humanity since the very beginning of the computer age. Hitherto these fears focused on machines using physical means to kill, enslave or replace people. But over the past couple of … Read More
May 3, 2023
(STAT News) – “I’ve been pursuing the same enemy for 25 years,” Skovronsky, now head of research at Eli Lilly, said at the STAT Breakthrough Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. Skovronsky and his employer, which has spent decades trying … Read More
April 11, 2023
(Gizmodo) – Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project officially wrapped up. It was a feat of collaborative science that took 13 years—from 1990 to 2003—and involved researchers from around the globe. In honor of the anniversary, I spoke with … Read More
April 3, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – This success has come as part of a delicate balancing act. Mr. Altman said he fears what could happen if AI is rolled out into society recklessly. He co-founded OpenAI eight years ago as a research … Read More
March 6, 2023
(BBC) – Judy Heumann, a renowned advocate for the rights of disabled people, has died at the age of 75. Heumann was an internationally recognised leader of the disability rights movement whose activism led to the implementation of major legislation … Read More
February 28, 2023
(Associated Press) – Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked his peers and the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after serving three years in a Chinese prison for practicing medicine without a license, … Read More
