November 6, 2024
(Science) – Now, researchers have devised a strategy to circumvent that problem. Reporting in Nature, scientists say they have equipped human cells with custom-designed receptors that the viruses can bind to and use to sneak inside a cell. The study … Read More
November 6, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday — at first glance, seemingly reshaping the nation’s patchwork of abortion rules. Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and New York — … Read More
November 6, 2024
(ABC News) – British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa. … Read More
November 6, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Children are experiencing the largest rise in mild respiratory infection characterized by a lingering cough If you’ve had a lingering cough recently, there is a chance the culprit wasn’t Covid-19, flu or RSV, but mycoplasma pneumoniae. … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Axios) – About $1.5 billion in annual Medicare payments to hospitals will be on the line Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case over whether the federal government shortchanges facilities that care for low-income seniors. Why it … Read More
November 5, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The Catholic Church still governs the care that can be delivered to millions in those hospitals each year, using religious directives to ban abortions and limit contraceptives, in vitro fertilization, and medical aid in dying. But … Read More
November 5, 2024
(New York Times) – He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. Richard A. Cash, who as a young public-health researcher in South Asia in the … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Undark) – Experiencing a severe side effect is rare, but officially documenting such cases is vital to designing better vaccines. I wrote about the experience in 2021 in The Boston Globe, after the FDA attached a warning to the J&J shot, citing an … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Tech Crunch) – Nodal is a marketplace for prospective parents to get matched with vetted surrogates. Nodal founder and CEO Dr. Brian Levine told TechCrunch that his company wants to fix the industry’s supply-and-demand problems. Nodal takes the same technology-driven … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Nature) – Generative-AI technologies can create convincing scientific data with ease — publishers and integrity specialists fear a torrent of faked science. From scientists manipulating figures to the mass production of fake papers by paper mills, problematic manuscripts have long … Read More
November 5, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 14, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 4, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Federal prosecutors have charged 38-year-old Rebecca Fadanelli with having allegedly imported and used counterfeit Botox and fillers on her clients for at least three years. A Massachusetts spa owner is in hot water for allegedly injecting her customers … Read More
November 4, 2024
(NPR) – Marburg virus is notorious for its killing ability. In past outbreaks, as many as 9 out of 10 patients have died from the disease. And there are no approved vaccines or medications. That was the grim situation in … Read More
November 4, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Lupus cannot be cured. No autoimmune disease can be cured. Two years ago, however, a study came out of Germany that rocked all of these assumptions. Five patients with uncontrolled lupus went into complete remission after undergoing … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Quartz) – Novo Nordisk, the maker of blockbuster weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, has entered an agreement with Denmark-based Ascendis Pharma to leverage the latter’s advanced drug delivery technology. The partnership aims to speed up the development of … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Wired) – WIRED spoke to a longtime customer service manager for the largest commercial pet cloning company. She guides pet owners through the entire process, from when they send in a piece of the old pet to when they meet—remeet?—the … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Cast aside in favor of sons, some women say trauma of one-child policy shattered their sense of family Having scrapped the one-child policy, the Communist Party is now championing the term “family values” and pressuring women … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Axios) – Health systems are under increasing pressure to embrace new artificial intelligence tools without a formal system for evaluating how well they work. Why it matters: Even AI developers can struggle to explain why a model makes a particular … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Axios) – Almost 200 countries at a UN biodiversity conference in Colombia agreed on a system for distributing proceeds from products derived from genetic information into a global conservation fund. Why it matters: Countries are seeking fair compensation for their … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Axios) – When global drug supply chain issues crop up, they are 40% less likely to result in a meaningful drug shortage in Canada compared with the U.S., according to findings in JAMA Network. Why it matters: Shortages are occurring … Read More
November 4, 2024
(AfroTech via MSN) – A patent from technology company Apple shows that it is working on tech innovations for its AirPods product. Back in July 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an application filed by Apple in … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Washington Times) – Massachusetts could become the third U.S. state to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychedelic drug found in mushrooms, if enough state voters mark “yes” on their ballot’s Question 4. Many drug policy researchers say legalization could be dangerous because … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Physicians for generations accepted being at the mercy of their pagers. Now, many are questioning medicine’s workaholic culture. There’s a question dividing the medical practice right now: Is being a doctor a job, or a calling? … Read More
November 4, 2024
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 92, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: