December 5, 2019
(Reuters) – U.S. health officials on Thursday reported one new case and one more death from a respiratory illness tied to vaping over a two-week period, taking the total death toll to 48. As of Dec. 4, 2019, there were … Read More
December 5, 2019
(BBC) – A survey by a Beijing research institute indicates growing pushback against facial recognition in China. Some 74% of respondents said they wanted the option to be able to use traditional ID methods over the tech to verify their … Read More
December 4, 2019
(STAT News) – There are reasons for such strict criteria, as there are with all clinical trials, which are meant to test whether the therapy in question is even effective. These are research studies that can only include so many … Read More
December 4, 2019
(Reuters) – Over the past 50 years, the FDA has relied upon – and often deferred to – industry even as outside experts and consumers repeatedly raised serious health concerns about talc powders and cosmetics, a Reuters investigation found. Again … Read More
December 4, 2019
(The Guardian) – The gene editing performed on Chinese twins to immunise them against HIV may have failed and created unintended mutations, scientists have said after the original research was made public for the first time. Excerpts from the manuscript … Read More
December 3, 2019
(MIT Technology Review) – Earlier this year a source sent us a copy of an unpublished manuscript describing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, born last year in China. Today, we are making excerpts of that manuscript public for … Read More
December 3, 2019
(New Scientist) – Mental health websites are sharing user data with advertisers, including the results of tests for depression. This means that people seeking information or help for mental health conditions can be targeted with adverts while they may be … Read More
December 3, 2019
(New York Times) – With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly Muslim minority groups swept up in detentions across Xinjiang, officials in Tumxuk have gathered blood samples from hundreds of Uighurs — part of a mass … Read More
December 3, 2019
(Ft. Worth Star Telegram) – Tinslee Lewis has spent all 10 months of her life at Cook Children’s Hospital, where she is on life support for several critical medical conditions. Unbeknownst to her, she has been thrust into a debate … Read More
December 3, 2019
(Medscape) – Not all in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in the United States follow online advertising guidelines, investigators warn. “The main area of concern is in the way some websites display success rates,” said lead investigator May-Tal Sauerbrun-Cutler, MD, from … Read More
