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August 21, 2025

They Needed a Surrogate, So They Asked a Sibling to Do It

(Wall Street Journal) – Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. Turning to friends and family can lower the cost—for those willing to navigate legal minefields and tricky family dynamics. Having a surrogate give birth to your baby … Read More

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August 21, 2025

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

(Wired) – For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.” Large language models can typically only “recall” things if information is included in the context … Read More

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August 21, 2025

Ticks are migrating, but scant surveillance may leave doctors in the dark on patient treatment

(NPR) – As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new … Read More

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August 21, 2025

Are Marathons and Extreme Running Linked to Colon Cancer?

(New York Times) – A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. By the time they came to see Dr. Timothy Cannon, all three had advanced colon cancer. He … Read More

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August 21, 2025

AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials

(NBC News) – Stephanie Nixdorf’s insurance company repeatedly declined to cover a drug to treat her arthritis. That changed after she sent an appeal letter crafted with help from AI. With his wife in agony, Jason Nixdorf had a chance … Read More

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August 20, 2025

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

(Ars Technica) – Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between 2019 and 2024. These facilities represent the array of manufacturing stages of a drug, … Read More

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August 20, 2025

Microsoft Failed to Disclose Key Details About Use of China-Based Engineers in U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows

(ProPublica) – The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations. … Read More

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August 20, 2025

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

(Wired) – Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more. As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and … Read More

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August 20, 2025

World’s first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again

(The Jerusalem Post) – Tel Aviv University announced on Wednesday that the surgery will take place in Israel, marking a historic milestone in regenerative medicine. Israel is preparing to perform the world’s first-ever human spinal cord implant using a patient’s … Read More

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August 20, 2025

A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only.  Articles include:

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August 20, 2025

Nation’s fertility clinics struggle with a growing number of abandoned embryos

(NBC News) – The dilemma over what to do with embryos cast aside, and who should assume ownership of them, is a thorny one. “We were not prepared for any of this,” Sweet said. Sweet is one of thousands of … Read More

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August 20, 2025

What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

(New York Times) – Sophie told Harry she was seeing a therapist, but that she was not being truthful with her. She typed, “I haven’t opened up about my suicidal ideation to anyone and don’t plan on it.” At various … Read More

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August 20, 2025

Texas declares end of measles outbreak that sickened 762, killed 2

(UPI) – Texas health officials have announced the end of a measles outbreak that sickened more than 750 people and killed two unvaccinated school-aged children in West Texas since January. The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the end … Read More

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August 20, 2025

How America’s seniors are confronting the dizzying world of AI

(Washington Post) – In tech classes, seniors are learning about AI-generated images and the risks of AI scams and deepfakes — and finding their own uses for bots like ChatGPT. America’s seniors, who have lived through leaps in technology like … Read More

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August 20, 2025

Promising vaccine may prevent certain cancers from returning

(The Hill) – An experimental cancer vaccine has shown promising results in keeping pancreatic and colorectal cancers from coming back. In a clinical trial led by the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, researchers tested … Read More

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