December 29, 2025
A New Edition of Nursing Ethics Is Now Available
Nursing Ethics (vol. 32, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 26, 2025
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
(Wired) – Over the past two years, generative AI tools—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini—have moved beyond the relatively straightforward, text-only chatbots that the companies initially released. Instead, Big AI is increasingly building and pushing toward the adoption of … Read More
December 26, 2025
This ex-doctor faced ‘incredible burnout’ and left medicine to build an AI tool – now, it’s worth over $460 million
(CNBC) – “In a perfect world … I would spend as much time with [patients] as they need … I would understand their family, I would remember them deeply, and then I would check in on them regularly,” he said. … Read More
December 26, 2025
China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule—and Is Trying to Tame It
(WSJ) – Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S. Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control. … Read More
December 26, 2025
The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell
(Wired) – Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics? Though Novo has as its controlling shareholder the largest altruistic foundation in the world, it has to act coldly … Read More
December 26, 2025
Pope disappointed over approval of assisted suicide legislation in his home state of Illinois
(AP) – Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois had approved a law allowing for medically assisted suicide, and he called for greater respect of life. Leo said he had spoken “explicitly” … Read More
December 26, 2025
When porch pirates steal medicine instead of holiday gifts
(NPR) – Ethan takes a medicine called Epidiolex that prevents these seizures. But last holiday season, a thief stole it off the family’s front porch in Charlotte, N.C. Peterson remembers finding the empty box and then checking her Ring doorbell … Read More
December 26, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 21, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 24, 2025
Generative AI, Africa, and the Gospel
(TGC) – Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Yet as the world marvels at conversing with machines, my continent, Africa, is in a familiar place: Her people are exploited to fuel a technological revolution. … Read More
December 24, 2025
A Russian Billionaire Fights Global Infertility—With 100 of His Own Children
(WSJ) – Telegram founder Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who want to use his donated sperm, and has promised his offspring a share of his fortune The Russian-born CEO said in his post in July 2024 that … Read More
December 24, 2025
Your Brain Ages in Five Distinct Stages, New Research Shows
(WSJ) – The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift. The brain’s adolescence phase, they discovered, … Read More
December 24, 2025
The Quiet Violence of Surveillance Developmentalism
(The Hedgehog Review) – India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them. India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism and political anxiety. At a time when liberal democracies are scrambling to … Read More
December 24, 2025
Data Holds the Key in Slowing Age-Related Illnesses
(Wired) – More accurate and individualized health predictions will allow for preventative factors to be implemented well in advance. The science of aging has given us new ways to track these processes with body-wide and organ clocks, along with specific … Read More
December 24, 2025
IVF treatments for same-sex couples to be covered by Aetna in national settlement
(CBS News) – Last week, in a landmark settlement, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Haywood Gilliam Jr. approved a preliminary agreement for the class action lawsuit requiring Aetna to cover fertility treatments for same-sex couples — … Read More
December 24, 2025
After Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery, They Wound Up in the Hospital or Alone at a Recovery House
(KFF Health News) – The Farris lawsuit is one of dozens of medical malpractice cases filed over the past three years that accuse cosmetic surgery chains of failing to provide adequate care for patients in the days and weeks after … Read More
December 24, 2025
What Is a Grief Attack?
(New York Times) – Sudden surges of anguish can accompany intense mourning. That’s not unusual, experts say, and sometimes even helpful. She would feel unexpectedly tense up, her heart racing as a wave of emotions washed over her. “Nobody could … Read More
December 24, 2025
A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 23, 2025
Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves
(NYT) – People over 65 represent prime targets for such medications. “The prevalence of obesity hovers around 40 percent” in older adults, as measured by body mass index, said Dr. John Batsis, a geriatrician and obesity specialist at the University … Read More
December 23, 2025
Minnesota jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used talcum powder
(AP) – A Minnesota jury awarded $65.5 million on Friday to a mother of three who claimed talcum products made by Johnson & Johnson exposed her to asbestos and contributed to her developing cancer in the lining of her lungs. … Read More
December 23, 2025
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
(ProPublica) – ProPublica decided to test several generic versions of three of the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States: the antidepressant bupropion XL, the generic for Wellbutrin XL; the heart medicine metoprolol succinate, the generic for Toprol XL; … Read More
December 23, 2025
US awards no-bid contract to Denmark scientists studying hepatitis B vaccine in African babies
(AP) – The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract to a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa that is raising ethical concerns. The unusual contract was awarded to scientists who have been … Read More
December 23, 2025
US regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss
(AP) – U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval handed drugmaker Novo Nordisk an … Read More
December 23, 2025
It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?
(KFF Health News) – Other families around the country have also recently had their access to the therapy challenged as state officials make deep cuts to Medicaid — the public health insurance that covers people with low incomes and disabilities. … Read More
December 23, 2025
Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs
(Washington Post via MSN) – In the days after H found her daughter’s Character AI chats, H projected an air of normalcy around her daughter, not wanting to do anything that would cause her distress or shame. H contacted her … Read More
December 23, 2025
Researchers Are Getting Organoids Pregnant with Human Embryos
(MIT Technology Review) – In three papers published this week by Cell Press, scientists are reporting what they call the most accurate efforts yet to mimic the first moments of pregnancy in the lab. They’ve taken human embryos from IVF … Read More
