December 13, 2024
(Aeon) – What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’ [TED-Ed video] After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey … Read More
October 21, 2024
(New York Times) – After Hurricane Helene Hit, a group of doctors and nurses quikly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care. (Watch Video Here)
September 27, 2024
(Associated Press) – For Pearson, that means something a little different than most. Since he was a young boy, Pearson has had neurofibromatosis, a condition that covers much of his face with benign skin tumors. But far from allowing that … Read More
August 20, 2024
(CBS News) – There’s been plenty of excitement and concern about how artificial intelligence could upend lives. One giant benefit could be changes in medical care, with some calling AI medicine’s biggest moment since antibiotics. Brook Silva-Braga puts the endless … Read More
August 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 22, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes reveals that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Australia Broadcasting Corp.) – “People need to know … this is the company you’re getting into bed with. One in every 18 births in Australia is now a result of IVF. It’s a multi-million-dollar industry creating ‘miracle babies’. But when … Read More
June 21, 2024
(WBUR) – British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass led a highly anticipated independent scientific review of gender health services for children in England, commissioned by the National Health Service. Now popularly known as the ‘Cass Review,’ it concludes for most young … Read More
June 7, 2024
(Axios) – Demoralized doctors and nurses are leaving the field, hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their employers. Why it matters: Dire forecasts of … Read More
May 9, 2024
May 3, 2024
(Beatrice Institute Podcast) – As a bioethicist and Catholic deacon-in-training, Dr. Michael Deem has spent years in the medical trenches as well as in theological and philosophical research. Michael Deem joins Grant in this episode to answer questions such as, … Read More
April 16, 2024
(NPR) – NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Jennifer Erickson, senior fellow with the Federation of American Scientists, about the organ transplant system and how eligible donated organs wind up in the trash. (Listen Here)
April 15, 2024
(NPR) – NPR’s Scott Detrow spoke with the former director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, about his recent prostate cancer diagnosis. (Read More)
April 1, 2024
(NPR) – Imagine it’s a crisp clear winter day, and you’re skiing down a mountain, feeling exhilarated. All of a sudden, you lose control of your skis. You’re hurtling down towards the base of the slope, and all you can … Read More
March 28, 2024
March 15, 2024
(New York Times) – Should your insurance company be allowed to stop you from getting a treatment — even if your doctor says it’s necessary? Doctors are often required to get insurance permission before providing medical care. This process is … Read More
February 28, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Opposing technology isn’t antithetical to progress. See illustrated story here.
February 27, 2024
(Aeon) – Good Chemistry takes viewers behind the scenes and beyond the headlines of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough. Centred on the work of the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the US biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who together became the first all-female … Read More
February 21, 2024
(Center for Humane Technology) – We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more… … Read More
February 19, 2024
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February 15, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Joaquin Oliver was killed in the Parkland school shooting. Now with AI, the 17-year-old’s voice can be heard again. WSJ’s Joanna Stern sat down with Joaquin’s parents to find out how and why they are preserving … Read More
February 7, 2024
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December 28, 2023
(NPR) – We’ve seen it so many times. A young, handsome man rushed into the emergency room with a gunshot wound. A flurry of white coats racing the clock: CPR, the heart zapper, the order for a scalpel. Stat! Then … Read More
