May 27, 2025
(NPR) – Two years of war in Sudan has caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in one of Africa’s largest countries and left its health system in ruins. Before fighting broke out in April 2023, Khartoum had nearly 100 public and … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Associated Press) – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by several public health experts. In a 58-second video … Read More
May 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Since its launch in late 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to draft emails, do research and brainstorm ideas. But in a novel use case, people … Read More
May 27, 2025
(The Independent) – It is hoped that the drug zosurabalpin will be approved by the end of the decade A new antibiotic that has the potential to save millions of lives has entered its last phase of human testing. Swiss … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TIME) – Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd. “We needed some way for … Read More
May 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – New systems for documenting outpatient visits are adding features and moving into hospitals; ‘we are just scratching the surface’ Even the hospital walls may soon have ears. A fast-growing technology known as ambient listening is taking … Read More
May 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Case of man carrying rare genetic variant fuels calls for limit on number of children that can be fathered by one donor The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TIME) – An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” This 6-month moratorium would be better than no moratorium. I have … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said … Read More
May 26, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Now, Ozempic and others in the “GLP-1” category of drugs are approaching that critical mass. They are showing promise for an ever-expanding list of diseases, beyond today’s most common uses of weight loss and treating diabetes. … Read More
May 26, 2025
(Associated Press) – The U.S. saw a small increase in measles cases this week, an indicator that outbreaks are slowing down, though exposures at a busy airport in Colorado and a Shakira concert in New Jersey are keeping public health … Read More
May 26, 2025
(UPI) – All non-medical products containing THC in any form soon could be outlawed in Texas after state lawmakers approved a full ban on Wednesday. The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday night voted 95-44 to approve Senate Bill 3, … Read More
May 26, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Despite my medical credentials, my concerns were dismissed. It took my husband calling my doctor directly to save my life. I was hemorrhaging internally, requiring multiple blood transfusions and a 2-week hospital stay. My family feared they … Read More
May 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy … Read More
May 26, 2025
(Wired) – Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with about 18 million more men living with the condition worldwide. This doesn’t tell the whole story. When women do get a diagnosis, they’re … Read More
May 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next AI’s integration into our lives is the most significant shift … Read More
May 26, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – People pick up on physical cues that artificial intelligence models miss One thing AI can’t do? Read your body language. To test how well artificial intelligence interprets physical cues, researchers at Johns Hopkins University pitted human … Read More
May 23, 2025
(The Conversation) – Doable? Theoretically, mind uploading should be possible. Still, you may wonder how it could happen. After all, researchers have barely begun to understand the brain. Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. … Read More
May 23, 2025
(UPI) – An estimated 57% of Asian-American women diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked, compared to only about 15% of all other women. With lung cancer rates among non-smokers rising, especially young East Asian women, a new study released … Read More
May 23, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Expert advisors for the Food and Drug Administration met Thursday to discuss which virus strain this year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines should target. The advisors have been meeting around this time each year for such a strain selection, … Read More
May 23, 2025
(Associated Press) – For more than two months, Israel has banned all food, medicine and other goods from entering the territory that is home to some 2 million Palestinians, as it carries out waves of airstrikes and ground operations. Palestinians … Read More
May 23, 2025
(New York Times) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his … Read More
May 23, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – You may not be familiar with Tie, but she’s no stranger to the public spotlight. A former Thiel fellow, she is a partner in the attention-grabbing Los Angeles Project, which promised to create glow-in-the-dark pets. Over … Read More
