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
September 12, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The trouble with chatbots is not just that they allow students to get away with cheating or that they remove a sense of urgency from academics. The technology has also led students to focus on external results … Read More
September 12, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid. Millions … Read More
September 11, 2025
(AP) – A school-age child has died from a rare complication of measles contracted in infancy, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday. The child, who had been too young to be vaccinated when they were infected by the virus, … Read More
September 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified. California legislators have passed one of the … Read More
September 11, 2025
(TechCrunch) – California has taken a big step toward regulating AI. SB 243 — a bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users — passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan … Read More
September 11, 2025
(The Economist) – Adapting to an emptier planet will not be easy, but it will be doable. None of the predictions of demographic disaster seems plausible this century, and 2100 is so far away that forecasts beyond it seem pointless. … Read More
September 11, 2025
(BBC) – Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Axios) – Abortion politics are colliding with ongoing efforts in Congress to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act coverage. Why it matters: Renewing the premium subsidies even for a year beyond their Dec. 31 expiration was always going to … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Wired) – Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Research about the effect on a fetus is sparse; pot has become more potent An analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that cannabis use during pregnancy has risen in … Read More
September 10, 2025
(News 4 San Antonio) – Governor Greg Abbott addressed the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals fall conference in Austin, where he ceremonially signed House Bill 18 and House Bill 3000 into law. These bills aim to enhance healthcare … Read More
September 10, 2025
(AP) – Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should … Read More
September 10, 2025
(UPI) – Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday. This Back to School Doodle looks at deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, “a molecular polymer that carries the genetic instructions for … Read More
September 10, 2025
(Forbes) – “I want to see women step into equal power and influence at every level of society, from their homes to their workplaces to our government and economy. But there is no path to that future if women are … Read More
September 10, 2025
(Medpage Today) – A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplantopens in a new tab or window, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animal organs really might save human … Read More
September 10, 2025
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September 9, 2025
(The New Atlantis) – Today, the number is around 60 percent. Even patients scheduled for major surgery at a hospital, and destined for what is called “planned admission,” often come to the operating room directly from home. With roughly half … Read More
September 9, 2025
(The Guardian) – Kirsten Smith was 19 when she first tried heroin; within a few years she was in prison. She says she willingly made bad choices and wants society to stop treating addiction as a disease Smith belongs to … Read More
September 9, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: While it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across the globe, it can also pose dangers to children when they have completely … Read More
September 9, 2025
(Comment) – In Bioethics After God: Morality, Culture, and Medicine, a misbegotten if earnest attempt to reframe the discipline from within the standpoint of traditional Christian morality, Mark J. Cherry argues that the root of this disagreement lies in the … Read More
