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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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August 20, 2025

America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

(New York Times) – The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced it would wind down 22 mRNA vaccine development projects under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, halting nearly $500 million in investments. This decision … Read More

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August 20, 2025

One neurosurgeon, 8 million patients

(NPR) – “Without it, he will have a devastating end of life,” says Dr. Marco Lee, past president of the Western Neurosurgical Society. “When your breathing starts to go, it’s like this constant feeling of drowning.” That would have been … Read More

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August 20, 2025

5th Legionnaires’ disease death in NYC outbreak, health officials say

(CBS New York via MSN) – A fifth person has died from the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, New York City’s health department said Monday. So far, there have been 108 confirmed cases of the potentially deadly form of pneumonia in Central … Read More

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August 20, 2025

‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

(The Guardian) – It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth paying … Read More

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August 18, 2025

EHR Notes Reveal Potential Racial Bias in Doctors’ Perception of Patient Credibility

(HealthDay News) – Clinician documentation undermining patient credibility may disproportionately undermine Black individuals An analysis of more than 13 million electronic health record (EHR) notes shows potential racial bias in how doctors document patient trustworthiness, according to a study published … Read More

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August 18, 2025

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

(The Verge) – The AI startup’s new policy now specifically bans using Claude to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons. Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot in response to growing concerns about safety. … Read More

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August 18, 2025

A New Reality for Terminal Cancer: Longer Lives, With Chronic Uncertainty

(Wall Street Journal) – Orilio is part of a new era of cancer treatment challenging the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating … Read More

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August 18, 2025

Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

(Tech Crunch) – Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s … Read More

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August 18, 2025

A New Edition of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Is Now Available

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 22, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:

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August 18, 2025

The surprising way rising CO2 could supercharge space storms

Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites. Future storms could cause sharper density spikes despite lower overall density, increasing drag-related challenges.

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August 18, 2025

Scientists just found a hidden factor behind Earth’s methane surge

Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature is difficult, however. UC Berkeley researchers have for the first time CRISPRed the key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique isotopic fingerprints of different environments to better understand Earth's methane budget.

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