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June 11, 2025

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon

(Rest of World) – At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications. Pharmacists in Brazil began testing the technology earlier this year. Its initial success suggests it could … Read More

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June 11, 2025

Why Humanoid Robots Need Their Own Safety Rules

(MIT Technology Review) – Physical stability—i.e., the ability to avoid tipping over—is the No. 1 safety concern identified by a group exploring new standards for humanoid robots. The IEEE Humanoid Study Group argues that humanoids differ from other robots, like … Read More

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June 11, 2025

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

(Futurism) – “What these bots are saying is worsening delusions, and it’s causing enormous harm.” As we reported this story, more and more similar accounts kept pouring in from the concerned friends and family of people suffering terrifying breakdowns after … Read More

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June 11, 2025

A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only.  Articles include:

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June 10, 2025

New York lawmakers approve bill that would allow medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

(AP) – Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill passed Monday in the state Legislature. The proposal, which now moves to the governor’s office, would allow a … Read More

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June 10, 2025

The Real Fertility Crisis: The Pursuit of Reproductive Agency in a Changing World

(UNFPA) – Millions of people around the world are unable to have the number of children they want – whether they want more, fewer, or none at all. Recently, fertility declines are making headlines, with women all too often blamed … Read More

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June 10, 2025

A Killer Within Easy Reach

(New York Times) – Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, … Read More

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June 10, 2025

Lawmakers approve bill that would allow medically assisted suicide for terminally ill

(ABC News) – Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill passed Monday in the state Legislature. The proposal, which now moves to the governor’s office, would allow … Read More

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June 10, 2025

When they chose to die together, my grandparents wrote the final chapter of a love story spanning 70 years

(The Guardian) – Nan held my hand, convincing me this was what they wanted. I felt like a little girl, crying and being comforted by my grandmother one last time In their final moments, Ron and Irene lay together in … Read More

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June 10, 2025

‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US

(Wired) – Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects. Outro officially launched in the US last month and is currently available in seven states, including California and … Read More

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June 10, 2025

WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe

(Wired) – NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence has … Read More

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June 10, 2025

A Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary

(The Atlantic) – As a professional writer, my first thought was that this would be unnecessary, at best. At worst, it would be an outrage. The philosopher Martin Heidegger held that someone’s death is a thing that is truly their … Read More

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June 10, 2025

Trump’s ban stalls lifesaving treatment for Haitian children who need to travel for surgery

(NBC News) – Leaders of an aid organization that has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the U.S. for heart surgery said President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from 19 countries will stall or cancel … Read More

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June 10, 2025

The Self-Diagnosis Epidemic in Teens

(MedPage Today) – The risks of social media-driven self-diagnosis extend beyond simple misinformation. Patients may engage in inappropriate self-treatment based on misdiagnosis, or experience a nocebo effect where expected symptoms begin to manifest simply because they anticipate them. Perhaps most … Read More

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June 10, 2025

Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy

(Wired) – As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles. On Tuesday, the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the … Read More

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June 10, 2025

As Cannabis Users Age, Health Risks Appear To Grow

(KFF Health News) – “As a geriatrician, it gives me pause,” Han said. “Our brains are more sensitive to psychoactive substances as we age.” Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia now allow cannabis use for medical reasons, and in … Read More

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June 10, 2025

A Day With One Abortion Pill Prescriber

(New York Times) – A nurse practitioner spoke on the phone with patients in states with abortion bans, assessed their medical eligibility and sent pills. She took some unconventional steps to protect their privacy. Ms. Lynch is one of about … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Why Texas is spending millions to research an illegal psychedelic

(Washington Post) – For years, people have flown to clinics in Mexico to take ibogaine, the extract of an ancient African shrub that induces mind-bending hallucinations. Under medical supervision, patients undergo psychedelic trips that can last more than a dozen … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Younger Asian American women had the second-lowest breast cancer rate. Why they’re now tied for No. 1.

(NBC News) – Asian American and Pacific Islander women under 50 are now tied with white women for the highest breast cancer rates. Experts point to westernization, increased screenings and more. Since 2000, breast cancer incidence among Asian American and … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

(New York Times) – OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Love Is a Drug. A.I. Chatbots Are Exploiting That.

(New York Times) – Many experts argue that addiction is, in essence, love gone awry: a singular passion directed destructively at a substance or activity rather than an appropriate person. With the advent of A.I. companions — including some intended … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class

(NBC 4i) – Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Can a robot help you age better?

(The Conversation) – As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor – and even offer a form … Read More

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June 9, 2025

The Ethical Minefield of Testing Infants for Incurable Diseases

(New York Times) – Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about. Today, that panel checks for unusual bio-markers that may indicate a rare but treatable disease like … Read More

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June 9, 2025

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

(Wired) – A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients. Four years ago, an unconscious Kentucky man began to awaken as he was about to be removed from life support … Read More

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