August 4, 2025
(New York Times) – Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying. Colombia has allowed physician-assisted death — known there as euthanasia — for a decade. … Read More
August 4, 2025
(BBC) – Gonorrhoea vaccines will be widely available from Monday in sexual health clinics across the UK, in a bid to tackle record-breaking levels of infections. The jabs will first be offered to those at highest risk – mostly gay … Read More
August 4, 2025
(NPR) – A new federal report finds that the percentage of adults with suicidal thoughts and attempts remained about the same between 2021 and 2024. But the analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health did offer some … Read More
August 4, 2025
(USA Today) – The White House has no current plans to mandate insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization, despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to expand access to fertility treatments, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Trump signed an executive … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A deepfake Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling to figure out simultaneously how to use AI in the filmmaking process and how to protect themselves against … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure is costing a fortune, straining companies and capital markets In the past two weeks one big tech company after another reported blowout earnings amid a wholesale embrace of artificial intelligence. Look … Read More
August 4, 2025
(CBS News) – Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and under-recognized danger” to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The new review of existing … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Nature) – When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates front-line immune cells in response to the mere sight of a sick person, mimicking the body’s response to an actual … Read More
August 4, 2025
(NPR) – At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder. The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring. The procedure, … Read More
August 4, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2025
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts. … Read More
August 1, 2025
(CNBC) – Until recently, stories of human-AI companionship were mostly confined to the realms of Hollywood and science fiction. But the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the generative AI boom that quickly followed ushered in a new era … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD have been prescribed simultaneous doses of powerful psychiatric drugs. The practice, known as “polypharmacy,” can tranquilize patients to the point of numbness, cause weight gain and increase suicidal thoughts … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The federal government may not have closed the window on paying for GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound after all. The Trump administration is reportedly planning to conduct an experiment that will allow some people to … Read More
August 1, 2025
(TechRadar) – Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready, new research from Veracode has found. Its study of more than 100 large language models across 80 different coding tasks revealed no improvement in security across … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wired) – Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. After putting the children on antiretroviral drugs early … Read More
August 1, 2025
(NPR) – Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). But a recent expert … Read More
August 1, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 31, 2025
(Science) – Analysis of DNA from 23andMe users points to variants in genes linked to brain function and sense of rhythm In The King’s Speech, the 2010 biopic that portrays the United Kingdom’s King George VI’s lifelong struggle with his … Read More
July 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – OpenAI is launching Study Mode, a version of ChatGPT for college students that it promises will act less like a lookup tool and more like a friendly, always-available tutor. It’s part of a wider push by … Read More
July 31, 2025
(New York Times) – But by artificially circulating blood and oxygen, the procedure can reanimate a lifeless heart. Some doctors and ethicists find the procedure objectionable because, in reversing the stoppage of the heart, it seems to nullify the reason … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Ars Technica) – On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to The Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture … Read More
July 31, 2025
(CNN) – About two years ago, celebrity cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank noticed a new type of patient arriving at his New York practice. Amid an explosion in the number of Americans losing weight with drugs like Ozempic, he … Read More
July 31, 2025
(CBS News) – Diego Marroquin and Jason Denoncourt are students on the “Accelerated MD” track at UMass Chan Medical School — one of 33 programs that offers the option to compress four years of medical school into three for students … Read More
July 31, 2025
(Los Angeles Times via MSN) – A few months ago, Northeastern University computer scientist Annika Schoene was playing around with ChatGPT when she found a troubling gap in its safeguards against harmful content. The usage policies of OpenAI, creator of … Read More
