February 5, 2026
(NBC News) – Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that demand for its Wegovy pill got off to a strong start after it launched in the U.S. in early January. By Jan. 23 — less than three weeks after it became available … Read More
February 5, 2026
(The Guardian) – A physician based in California has become the first medical provider sued under a recently enacted Texas statute that empowers private individuals to file civil lawsuits against providers who mail abortion medication into the state. The case … Read More
February 5, 2026
(New York Times) – The Federal Trade Commission announced on Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with Cigna’s Express Scripts, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, over its role in driving up insulin prices. Express Scripts will … Read More
February 5, 2026
(Axios) – A review of rules governing Colorado’s psychedelic therapy program will include potentially expanding the substances available for treatment. Why it matters: The change would make Colorado the first state to use ibogaine — a psychoactive found in the … Read More
February 5, 2026
(Wired) – The cultural obsession with wellness and optimization, which is currently driven and designed by male biohackers like Bryan Johnson and Peter Attia, has come for this murky preconception period, coined “the zero trimester” by sociologist Miranda Waggoner in … Read More
February 4, 2026
(MedPage Today) – For the first time, a major U.S. physician group has recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths. On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) sent a position statement to its 11,000 members recommending against gender-related … Read More
February 4, 2026
(Nature) – Hindering studies involving fetal tissue will impede the development of the alternatives intended to replace it, while slowing the search for new medicines. “This decision is about advancing science by investing in breakthrough technologies more capable of modeling … Read More
February 4, 2026
(Nature) – Many cancers are linked to two modifiable habits: tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption. Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable, according to one of the first investigations of its kind, which analysed dozens of cancer … Read More
February 4, 2026
(Nature) – Although scientists have known for more than a century that mental imagery varies between people, the topic received a surge of attention when, a decade ago, an influential paper coined the term aphantasia to describe the experience of … Read More
February 4, 2026
(WSJ) – A lone semiretired Austrian coder built Moltbot and unleashed it on the world. People have created their own AI assistant bots through his project, which he renamed OpenClaw, to make phone calls to restaurants for dinner reservations, operate … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – Onchocerciasis is one of 21 afflictions, most of them treatable and preventable, that the World Health Organization classifies as neglected tropical diseases. Together, they affect more than a billion people, but because many are among the … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for … Read More
February 3, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – A hospital in Barcelona said on Monday it had performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, had offered her face for donation before undergoing an assisted dying procedure. The complex … Read More
February 3, 2026
(New York Times) – For decades, hospitals have given babies a vitamin K injection to protect against bleeding. Now, the shot appears to be facing resistance. Vitamin K plays a crucial role in blood clotting but doesn’t pass to the … Read More
February 3, 2026
(WSJ) – There is a looming crisis in America’s death industry. Green-Wood Cemetery might have found a lifeline. The storied 478-acre Brooklyn burial ground, like many across the U.S., is running out of room for new occupants. With the help … Read More
February 3, 2026
(Wired) – As nights get hotter around the globe due to climate change, the prevalence of sleep apnea is expected to increase by as much as threefold. One particularly eye-opening study, carried out by giving under-mattress sleep sensors to 67,558 … Read More
February 3, 2026
(MarketWatch) – There will be an estimated shortage of 40,000 primary-care doctors in 2036. How many years have you been seeing the same primary care physician? Five years? Ten? Or maybe you don’t have one at all. In today’s world, … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Researchers believe increasing use of cannabis may be contributing to a rise in new cases of schizophrenia and related disorders at younger ages. A new analysis of birth cohorts in the Canadian province of Ontario has … Read More
February 2, 2026
(WSJ) – Fearing rising utility costs, job losses and privacy violations, residents have blocked or delayed data-center projects around the country Fearing rising utility costs, job losses and privacy violations, locals blocked or delayed about 20 projects around the country … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – You’ve probably heard of extreme cases in which people treat bots as lovers, therapists or friends. But many more have them intervene in their social lives in subtler ways. On dating apps, people are leaning on … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Every few months, he acts out more than usual and he is hospitalized. Doctors administer enough medication to briefly calm him, then label him “stable” and “not a harm to self or others” and discharge him … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Obamacare’s open enrollment period is over, and Americans around the country are facing higher health insurance costs. But the increases have been particularly steep for one group of people. People who earn $62,600 or less — … Read More
January 30, 2026
(New York Times) – As an employee with the N.S.A., he claimed he was exposed to a direct-energy device that led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at age 45. Michael Beck, the first of scores of federal workers to … Read More
January 30, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters. The … Read More
January 30, 2026
(NBC News) – A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an international team of researchers … Read More
