May 5, 2026
(NYT) – A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone. The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in … Read More
May 5, 2026
(NYT) – We come from different parties and have guided artificial intelligence policy under very different presidents. But we agree: A.I. has become so powerful that, along with its tremendous promise, the technology poses immediate risks to national security. The … Read More
May 5, 2026
(Vox) – A medical field that almost died is quietly fixing one disease at a time. In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NBC News) – By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it’s often too late to treat effectively. But a new study suggests that artificial intelligence might be able to find signs of the disease before tumors are visible on a … Read More
May 4, 2026
(WSJ) – Support systems and spouses reminding partners to take care of themselves may contribute Marriage is linked to a lower risk of developing cancer, recent research found. A study of more than 4 million cancer cases in the U.S. … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KERA News) – The class is Experiential Medical Reasoning, designed to help these students like 22 year old Sahar Bavandi pass the MCAT, the test needed for acceptance into medical school. Even though Bavandi had never played Minecraft before, she … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NYT) – Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily. Within a few years of that, Ms. Lawson could utter only a string of unintelligible sounds and had lost … Read More
May 4, 2026
Volunteers Needed for ResearchAre you interested in reflecting on how your digital life connects with your spiritual practices? Faculty and Staff from LeTourneau University’s Faith, Science, and Technology Initiative and Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity are conducting a study … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – “So for a long time, we have been trying to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis easier, cheaper, and quicker,” says Alfred Andama, a microbiologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. That desire was fulfilled last … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Undark) – AI-driven tools are being tested in systems for granting asylum to refugees and aiding displaced populations. For people seeking asylum, the process usually involves registration, an interview, and review by government caseworkers. Decisions on granting asylum have traditionally … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Women’s Health) – Women with [hyperemesis gravidarum] are often treated with the same drugs used for morning sickness, like Zofran, Diclegis, and Compazine, but for many, these drugs don’t put a meaningful dent in their symptoms. (I tried every medication … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Wired) – “I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month. Emergency first-responder leaders told federal regulators in a private … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a … Read More
May 1, 2026
(The Guardian) – Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages Japan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff … Read More
May 1, 2026
(CBS Morning) – Sarah Brabant, a beloved college professor at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, taught a class called “Death and Dying.” Now at 93, she faces her own terminal illness and gives one final lesson to CBS News contributor … Read More
April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A “rich face” is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler or implants or a person’s own grafted fat. Once, this face belonged to a villainous class of elites in sci-fi depictions of a … Read More
April 30, 2026
(WSJ) – The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic to expand access to its powerful artificial-intelligence model Mythos, complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks and sowing widespread disruptions online. Anthropic recently proposed letting … Read More
April 30, 2026
(The Hill) – Last March, 31-year-old Eileen Mihich was found dead in a room at the Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Ore. Near her body was an empty bottle of the poison pills prescribed specifically for physician-assisted suicide. Mihich had obtained … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Live Science) – A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a more efficient alternative to traditional computing. An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s … Read More
April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79. … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Youtube) – The Chinese-made Unitree G1 humanoid robots are making their way into the U.S. And they aren’t just in viral videos but in major tech companies like OpenAI and Nvidia, and top academic institutions. Most arrive through Robostore, a … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – The drug, rapamycin, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent organ-transplant rejection in people. But recent studies in yeast, flies and mice showed that relatively low doses of the drug often increase … Read More
