May 15, 2025
(New York Times) – The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. The baby, now 9 ½ months old, became the first patient of … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Nature) – Researchers have coaxed stem cells to grow into amniotic sacs filled with fluid. The model sacs, which grew to roughly the same size as a four-week-old sac surrounding a developing embryo, could be used to study the protective … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Science) – A forensic technology developed in India sifts brain recordings for clues to a suspect’s guilt or innocence. Many neuroscientists are skeptical, but it is catching on in other countries The man accused of the crime, Surjaram, denied everything … Read More
May 15, 2025
(KFF Health News) – As the country’s incarcerated population ages rapidly, thousands die behind bars each year. For some researchers, medical providers, and families of terminally ill people in custody, Rigsby’s situation — and Moser’s frustration — are familiar: Incarcerated … Read More
May 15, 2025
(NPR) – Since abortion became nearly entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the state … Read More
May 15, 2025
(New York Times) – After the shooting in the West Bank, doctors were able to save the baby, a boy, who was taken to a neonatal intensive care unit. The woman’s baby, a boy, survived after being delivered in an … Read More
May 15, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, the platform has crept further into the realm of the outlandish and unsettling. Porn spam bots are rampant, and Nazi apologia—which used to be extremely hard to … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Wired) – As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medication injected daily instead of weekly. After telehealth startups recently lost the ability to sell exact copies of … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said. The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it … Read More
May 15, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made combating chronic disease a rallying cry as he looks to overhaul the health department and “Make America Healthy Again.” So how healthy is America, historically? … Read More
May 14, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Nine years ago, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton sent shock waves through medicine by declaring it “just completely obvious” that AI would make radiologists extinct in short order. Fast-forward and the specialists — who do more than analyze images … Read More
May 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Research raises questions about long-term treatment of and support for people using weight loss drugs People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown. … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Creatine: It’s what’s hot and not just among the bodybuilder set. The popular supplement may do more than boost athletic performance and muscle mass, scientists say. It is being studied—with good preliminary results—to improve bone health, … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Wired) – With the active ingredients in drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound no longer in shortage, access to medicine for millions who had come to rely on compounded versions is increasingly uncertain. The injectable medications have become so popular that … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Women are experiencing rising alcohol-related deaths at a faster clip than men, data show At bars and dinner tables across the U.S., women are throwing back more drinks—raising concerns about the health consequences of their alcohol … Read More
May 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs. When ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, it caused … Read More
May 14, 2025
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration will work to pull fluoride supplements for children from the market, the agency announced Tuesday. The move comes at the same time as a wave of bills aiming to restrict use … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Texas Observer) – Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution. Around May 2021, cryptominers migrated en masse to Texas for its cheap … Read More
May 14, 2025
(New York Magazine) – ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – An emboldened fringe movement is breaking with the antiabortion establishment by pushing for women who get abortions to face criminal charges, a departure from decades of “pro-life” tradition. The “abortion abolitionist” movement wants to see … Read More
May 14, 2025
(BBC) – A new treatment approach can significantly improve survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancer, a study suggests. The trial, led by Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, and published in Nature Communications, involved women with early-stage breast cancer … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Unherd) – Last September, I found myself — confused, groggy, and irritable — staring into the surgical dome light of my local hospital’s emergency room. The doctor and my parents at my bedside informed me that I had been found … Read More
May 14, 2025
Nursing Ethics (vol. 32, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 13, 2025
(New York Times) – A new clinic, opened by a pulmonologist who lost his home in the Palisades blaze, is addressing the health issues developing among people exposed to the fires. Just three weeks after the blaze tore through neighborhoods … Read More
May 13, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Microbes can produce compounds that affect the way neurons work. They also influence the functioning of the immune system, which can have knock-on effects on the brain. And they seem to be able to communicate with … Read More
