September 23, 2025
(NPR) – Health officials around the globe are rejecting President Trump’s assertion that pregnant women should avoid taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy because of unfounded links to autism. “Available evidence has found no link between the … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Nature) – A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases. A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Bloomberg via MSN) – The Trump administration’s $100,000 fee for high-skilled visa applicants threatens to worsen a shortage of US doctors and make it harder for rural hospitals to operate, medical groups warned. The fee for H-1B visas “risks shutting … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Futurism) – People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. “Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions — … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – After an unthinkable diagnosis, a Journal editor learned how challenging it is to find treatment and support for a rare disease—and discovered reasons for hope. I had come across chordoma during my late night internet research … Read More
September 22, 2025
(ProPublica) – Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up. Over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated … Read More
September 22, 2025
(CNN) – Doctors on the ground estimate that tuberculosis has infiltrated almost every second home of this eastern urban compound, killing residents and robbing many families of their livelihoods. The local crisis is a microcosm of a national health care … Read More
September 22, 2025
(New York Times) – Men seek weight loss treatment far less often than women. Doctors are concerned. Men have similar rates of obesity as women, but they are less likely to seek medical care, making up only about 20 percent … Read More
September 22, 2025
(AZ Family) – According to the Donor Network of Arizona, more than 2,500 people removed themselves from the Donor Registry in July. It was the largest single-month removal in the network’s history. The big question is why? The number of … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – China appears to be moving fast to establish itself as a brain computer interface (BCI) leader. The nation’s latest advance is the release of a medical device industry standard, the ‘Medical Device Terminology Using Brain-Computer Interface … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients. Artificial intelligence tools used by doctors risk leading to worse health outcomes for women and ethnic minorities, as a growing body of research shows … Read More
September 22, 2025
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 46, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 19, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
September 18, 2025
(Wired) – A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay. With the focus so squarely on … Read More
September 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Federal officials will for the first time fire one of the organizations responsible for coordinating organ donations in the United States, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday. It is an escalation in the … Read More
September 18, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill to crack down on mail-order distribution of abortion medications, already banned in his state, by empowering private citizens to sue individuals and companies for shipping the pills … Read More
September 18, 2025
(Slate) – They had a mysterious, sometimes debilitating condition. At special “boot camps,” they were promised a cure. They experienced something much different. Sherry began using the term AMPS in the early 2000s while working at a children’s hospital in … Read More
September 17, 2025
(Reuters) – Three parents whose children died or were hospitalized after interacting with artificial intelligence chatbots called on Congress to regulate AI chatbots on Tuesday, at a U.S. Senate hearing on harms to children using the technology. Chatbots “need some … Read More
September 17, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team in California says it used AI to propose new genetic codes for viruses—and managed to … Read More
September 17, 2025
(NBC News) – Two professional organizations with different approaches to treating infertility, one backed by supporters of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement and anti-abortion groups, and the other representing in vitro fertilization providers, held separate, dueling events on … Read More
September 17, 2025
(NBC News) – Eli Lilly on Tuesday said it will spend $5 billion to build a manufacturing facility in Goochland County, Virginia, to boost production capacity for targeted cancer drugs and other treatments — the first in a string of … Read More
September 17, 2025
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 92, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 16, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – The taboo against pork is deeply entrenched in both religious traditions. But the prohibition is not absolute. It has not always been entirely clear whether the religious prohibitions on pigs apply strictly to consumption, and neither … Read More
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – Half of people who start taking the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Ozempic drop it within a year, a new study says. About 52% of people in Denmark prescribed semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) for weight loss stopped taking it after one … Read More
