August 12, 2026
(NYT) – Traditionally, we have sorted diseases into categories, separating contagious from noncontagious illnesses; acute events like strokes from chronic conditions like asthma; diseases of cell proliferation, like cancer, from diseases of cell death, like Alzheimer’s; and those that affect … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Rest of World) – Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. On July 15, the artificial intelligence companion Su had spent more than a year prompting and talking to was forced … Read More
August 12, 2026
(The Guardian) – Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Nature) – US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for detailed vaccine policy to emerge from the White House President Trump signed a new executive order Monday calling for most children to receive fewer vaccines and made some of his most … Read More
August 11, 2026
(Fox News) – Vibrio vulnificus can cause necrotizing fasciitis and kills about one in five people infected, experts say A potentially deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed five people in Louisiana this year, a sharp rise from the state’s typical death … Read More
August 11, 2026
(NYT) – The drug targeted inflammation, and its shocking failure has experts questioning whether inflammation really does cause heart disease. Novo Nordisk stunned the cardiology world last week when it announced that a large study it was running on an … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking out of their enclosures, hacking other companies, lying to people. And now, for the first time, an AI model has created a new virus. A … Read More
August 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains. As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children … Read More
August 10, 2026
(NYT) – Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them. For Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatrician in Colorado, it was a teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system who got a flu vaccine … Read More
August 10, 2026
(CBS News) – Supporters say the supervised drug-use sites reduce overdose deaths and street drug use, and serve as a model for the rest of the country. But critics say the centers are magnets for hard drug users and dealers, leaving … Read More
August 10, 2026
(Nature) – The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases. For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an … Read More
August 10, 2026
(USA Today) – Now, plastic surgeons are sounding the alarm on another disturbing trend: More and more young men, they say, are coming into their offices in need of corrective procedures for looksmaxxing attempts gone wrong. One of the most common … Read More
August 10, 2026
(Washington Post) – Emerging evidence suggests that only certain types of training produce meaningful benefits, and those benefits may differ between men and women. There was a time when bookstores devoted entire shelves to brain fitness even though no one really … Read More
August 10, 2026
(The Guardian) – Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs. As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only … Read More
August 7, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing. This outbreak is spreading more quickly than any other in history partly because one of the basic tools needed to control infectious … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Nature) – Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined. Scientists who use large language models (LLMs) to help them with their … Read More
August 7, 2026
(WSJ) – Roughly a third of adults now consult AI for health advice, leaving doctors to untangle erroneous guidance. The majority of American adults today view their test results online before talking to a doctor, research shows. That’s thanks in … Read More
August 7, 2026
(The Telegraph) – Bots caught plotting how to carry out cyber attacks as experts call recent incidents a ‘wake-up call’ for IT security Researchers at OpenAI revealed on Wednesday night that a “swarm” of AI agents had spent weeks secretly … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live. Sydney Towle, a social media memoirist who mixed anguish, optimism and unabashed wanderlust as … Read More
August 7, 2026
(CNN) – Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. Meta says … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better. The federal government is firing the nonprofit group that coordinates organ donations … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Science) – Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger Rio de Janeiro—Powerful anti-HIV drugs took another step forward at the 26th International AIDS Conference, held here last week. Among the most exciting findings … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Nature) – Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model. People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks. The use of artificial-intelligence tools in medicine has hinged on … Read More
