July 27, 2020
(Texas Tribune) – Tinslee’s family has been in a prolonged legal battle with the hospital. Her doctors have said that continuing treatment is futile and increases the child’s suffering and have recommended the family take her off her ventilator. The … Read More
July 27, 2020
(STAT News) – While the world awaits the results of large clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines, experts say the data so far suggest one important possibility: The vaccines may carry a bit of a kick. In vaccine parlance, they appear … Read More
July 27, 2020
(Wired) – Two years later, some things have changed. But it’s not CEOs who are leading the charge. It’s the workers—engineers, designers, product managers—who have become the loudest voices for reform in the industry. So when it came time for … Read More
July 23, 2020
(Inside Higher Ed) – As colleges and universities map out their plans for bringing students, faculty members and administrators back to campuses in the fall, the same questions are on everyone’s minds: How can we have as normal an academic … Read More
July 22, 2020
(New York Times) – When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free software to help alert people of their possible exposure to the coronavirus, the companies promoted it as “privacy preserving” and said it would not track users’ … Read More
July 21, 2020
(Science) – Since the early days of the pandemic, some researchers have advocated a fast way to determine whether a COVID-19 vaccine works: Intentionally attempt to infect vaccinated volunteers with the virus, SARS-CoV-2. Ethicists and vaccine scientists alike raised red … Read More
July 21, 2020
(Undark) – Over the years, Vig submitted letters to academic journals, bemoaning a lack of strong evidence for the health benefits of orthodontic treatment and questioning what he calls “the prevailing dogma” of orthodontics. He once testified as an expert … Read More
July 16, 2020
(WSJ) The Mount Sinai Health System has established a new data science center to develop artificial intelligence and other applications to help diagnose and treat Covid-19. Drawing on resources from the 3,815-bed network of eight New York City hospitals and a … Read More
July 15, 2020
(STAT News) Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota’s largest health systems have had their discharge planning decisions informed with help from an artificial intelligence model. But few if any of those … Read More
July 11, 2020
(Washington Post) I was one of the first people in the clinical trial for Moderna. There are 45 of us in Phase 1. This type of vaccine had never been given to humans before, so it’s a lot of unknowns. … Read More
