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
September 16, 2025
(UPI) – U.S. health officials have targeted youth vaping in a new campaign amid the high popularity of e-cigarettes used by young people. On Tuesday, the Surgeon General’s office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled its … Read More
September 16, 2025
(IEEE Spectrum) – Bank of America Global Research, for example, predicts that global humanoid robot shipments will reach 18,000 units in 2025. And Morgan Stanley Research estimates that by 2050 there could be over 1 billion humanoid robots, part of … Read More
September 16, 2025
(USA Today) – About 1 in 6 parents have skipped or delayed vaccinating their children against diseases other than COVID-19 or the flu, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and health care policy nonprofit KFF. The … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. God works in mysterious ways — including through chatbots. At least, that’s what many people seem to think. On religious apps, tens of millions of people … Read More
September 16, 2025
(The Guardian) – The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over … ‘I’m … Read More
September 16, 2025
(Nature) – Developers of griefbots say that they help people by allowing them to commune with recreations of the dead, but others say that the technology is fraught with danger. “Saying goodbye to Dadbot was surprisingly hard,” she says. “When … Read More
September 16, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 15, 2025
(Wired) – At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases. At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Today, OpenAI’s Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing how people … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows the problem is getting worse and not much is being done about it After months of worsening symptoms, Chesson was diagnosed … Read More
September 15, 2025
(NBC Boston) – Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it’s like. Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of … Read More
September 15, 2025
(Aeon) – The biomedical animator Drew Barry is known for his dazzling visualisations of biological processes that unfold on microscopic scales. As enlightening as it is arresting, his imagery straddles the line between science and art, as seen in his … Read More
September 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Some researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may explain a disturbing trend. In 2023, the most recent year of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 41,000 Americans over 65 died … Read More
September 15, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 6, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 15, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 12, 2025
(Science) – After ChatGPT debuted in late 2022 and wowed users with its humanlike fluency, many academic journals rolled out policies requiring authors to disclose whether they had used artificial intelligence (AI) to help write their papers. But new evidence … Read More
September 12, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – In a hastily scheduled meeting, Kenvue’s Kirk Perry sought to dissuade the health secretary, arguing there is no clear link The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Kennedy plans to cite the use of acetaminophen—the … Read More
September 12, 2025
(UPI) – Researchers analyzed more than 1,000 samples of ovarian fluid from patients undergoing fertility treatment. They compared unfertilized eggs (oocytes) from 62 women who tested positive for THC with a control group who did not use cannabis. The study … Read More
September 12, 2025
(UPI) – Surgeons in Chile performed a pioneering gallbladder operation with the support of the MARS platform, a system that combines precision robotic technology with artificial intelligence. For the surgery performed on Monday, a robot held a magnet that moves … Read More
September 12, 2025
(Kaiser Health News) – Black, his 22-year-old patient, had arrived at the hospital after getting shot in the head on March 24, 2019. A week later, he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation — even … Read More
September 12, 2025
(New York Times) – The agency plans to highlight possible links between the shots and accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week. The Food and Drug Administration is examining rare cases … Read More
September 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so significant it has the potential to reshape our grid. Energy consumption by data centers has gone up by 80% from 2020 to 2025 … Read More
