July 25, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) appear more likely to be diagnosed with a new mental illness during and after pregnancy, according to new research from ICES, McGill University, and the Research Institute of the McGill … Read More
July 25, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – It has been a grim few months for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. There had been some excitement when, a couple of years ago, a gene therapy for the disorder was approved by the US … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Wired) – A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US. One patient tells WIRED … Read More
July 25, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 24, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 24, 2025
(Medical Xpress) – A baby born at only 21 weeks of gestation last July in Iowa City, Iowa, has just celebrated his first birthday, and among his gifts is a Guinness world record for most premature baby. Nash Keen was … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Highly realistic baby dolls have become a global phenomenon, with collectors shelling out for luxury baby gear and doting on their ‘reborns’ as if they were human children When I told a dollmaker that I’ve never … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wired) – Bad mood? Puffy face? Immune issues? Across TikTok and Instagram there are scores of influencers ready to sell you some products—without ever sending you to a doctor. Bad mood? Puffy face? Immune issues? Across TikTok and Instagram there … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A Wall Street Journal investigation found parents were told nothing could be done for their infants even when other nearby hospitals could offer care Hospitals would be required to disclose how they make key decisions regarding … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Associated Press) – “Everyone uses AI for everything now. It’s really taking over,” said Chege, who wonders how AI tools will affect her generation. “I think kids use AI to get out of thinking.” For the past couple of years, … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Wired) – In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes. Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration … Read More
July 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Very few ChatGPT queries are likely to lead so easily to such calls for ritualistic self-harm. OpenAI’s own policy states that ChatGPT “must not encourage or enable self-harm.” When I explicitly asked ChatGPT for instructions on how … Read More
July 23, 2025
(KFF Health News) – More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person’s brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person’s health, mental states, emotions, and cognitive functioning. … Read More
July 23, 2025
(NBC News) – As of July 15, Covid cases were growing or likely growing in 27 states including Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of positive Covid tests have also … Read More
July 23, 2025
(The Guardian) – Gaza has never been hungrier, despite several warnings about impending famine over the course of nearly two years of war. Over just three days this week public health officials recorded 43 deaths from hunger; there had been … Read More
July 23, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Researchers in the field have long criticized the Geiers’ methodology as sloppy, and noted that their conclusions are at odds with those of numerous higher-quality studies. Since March, when The Washington Post reported that David Geier had … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s funny. After a decade of Amazon saying Alexa isn’t listening to your every word, the company is buying a bracelet that can. Bee’s wearable transcribes all the conversations in your day—including when you talk to … Read More
July 23, 2025
(PAMAS) – Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide presents “Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide,” available to watch (below) from July 23-30 in honor of the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Watch Here)
July 23, 2025
(Undark) – As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor. Over his decades-long career as a late-night comedy TV writer, Joe Toplyn has crafted jokes for … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Wired) – Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming—anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers … Read More
July 23, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 22, 2025
(Noema) – Sensitive data about your health used to be relatively safe and anonymous. AI is making it much easier for that information to be used against you in opaque ways. Within days of the diagnosis, I entered the inner … Read More
July 22, 2025
(New York Times) – In June, lawmakers in my native country, Britain, approved plans to legalize assisted suicide. If the bill becomes law, England and Wales will join more than a dozen countries and 11 U.S. states in permitting medically … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Desert News) – Behind the veneer of “freedom of choice,” there is an ideology that distinguishes those “worthy of life” from those whose lives allegedly “aren’t worth living.” Whether it is communicated explicitly or only hinted at, the elderly and … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Washington Post) – Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” at 40 is truer than ever. In Postman’s view, once television became the dominant cultural form, it didn’t just reshape entertainment, it reshaped everything. Politics, religion, education, journalism — all began … Read More
July 22, 2025
(NBC News) – The stress of lockdowns, fear and social isolation appear to have left a mark on our brains. Experts say it may be possible to counteract the changes. Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even … Read More
