April 29, 2025
(GQ) – (Editor’s note: Content warning) What’s really happening under the laser during tattoo removal is much more complex and elegant than it literally sounds (and smells). These days, the best-in-class lasers for the procedure are five-to-six-figure picosecond laser machines, … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The fledgling neurotechnology space is filled with products that promise all sorts of utility by reading your brainwaves. Whether they actually accomplish much functionality is debatable, but they are apparently succeeding at monetizing the data they collect from … Read More
April 28, 2025
(New York Times) – For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results. In 49 of the patients, who had rectal cancer, the tumors … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – More than 2% of adults, or over 5 million people, have been diagnosed with autism in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and medical and research experts say they typically struggle … Read More
April 28, 2025
(The Cut) – In 2016, 34-year-old Playboy model Katie May received a cervical adjustment, then suffered a fatal stroke; the Los Angeles County coroner determined her death was caused by the chiropractic visit. In 2022, 28-year-old Georgia resident Caitlin Jensen reportedly suffered a VAD and stroke … Read More
April 28, 2025
(New York Times) – As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious. One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe … Read More
April 28, 2025
(The New Yorker) – When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he did not like.” He suspected a rare genetic condition; Hess underwent an amniocentesis and … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. The key to preventing disasters like this is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Automakers are increasingly pushing consumers to accept monthly and annual fees to unlock preinstalled safety and performance features, from hands-free driving systems and heated seats to cameras that can automatically record accident situations. But the additional levels of internet connectivity … Read More
April 28, 2025
(GQ) – Scroll through Reddit, and you’ll find post after post written by people claiming that a single gummy left them in a permanent state of anxiety, with recurring panic attacks, a feeling of dissociation that won’t fade, or unbearable physical symptoms. One night, … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Futurism) – Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world’s top chatbots are still strikingly bad at giving financial advice. AI researchers Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence posed … Read More
April 28, 2025
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 46, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 25, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Federal regulators are asking Novavax to complete an additional randomized clinical trial on its Covid-19 vaccine after previously delaying approval, people familiar with the matter said, a request that could be so prohibitively expensive the company … Read More
April 25, 2025
(New York Times) – The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world. After an outcry from scientists and experts, federal officials on Thursday said they would restore funding to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Many people recover from a bout of flu within a few days or a week. But every year, the virus still kills more than 36,000 people across the United States and sends hundreds of thousands to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Undark) – Over the past decade, spurred by the personal testimonies of late-diagnosed women, autism researchers have increasingly examined this question. As it turns out, many autistic women and girls are driven by a powerful desire to avoid social rejection, … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Nature) – Trials of treatments for Parkinson’s disease often show improvements of two or three points on the movement scale, but that doesn’t make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, he explains. Six points is clinically significant. “It’s quite something … Read More
April 25, 2025
(The Atlantic) – I’ve spent recent weeks speaking with scientists and executives at universities, major companies, and research institutions—including Pfizer, Moderna, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—in an attempt to understand what the technology can (and cannot) do to … Read More
April 25, 2025
(Wired) – A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. Using a computer model, the authors found that with … Read More
April 25, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – Ars Moriendi for the Twenty-first Century There have always been many ways of dying badly. In the late eighteenth century, the devout English writer Samuel Johnson struggled furiously and profanely against his own demise, ordering his … Read More
April 25, 2025
(NBC News) – From Studio Ghibli-inspired illustrations to doll and action figure “starter packs,” an explosion of AI-generated images in recent weeks has sparked a fresh wave of concern among artists like Cardaño, who argue that using AI undermines the … Read More
April 25, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 13, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 24, 2025
(Axios) – Driving with a case of COVID raised the odds of having a car crash about as much as being at the legal threshold of DUI or running a red light, according to an analysis of pandemic-era public health … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Christianity Today) – The Nashville program joins a growing movement to teach future doctors a “whole person” model of health care For the first time in more than 40 years, a new Christian medical school granting MD degrees has opened … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Science) – Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic It took an extension to the extension of the extension, but after more than 3 years of negotiations, governments around … Read More
