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IVF Just Got More Affordable: Costco’s Game-Changing Partnership
(Self) – A new partnership between Costco, Sesame (a cash-pay health care marketplace), and IVI RMA (a network of fertility clinics) aims to lower...
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AI-Powered Writing Critique: Is Simulating Famous Authors’ Voices a Game-Changer or Copyright Infringement?
(Wired) – The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission....
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The Medicaid Autism Racket: Uncovering Layers of Fraud
(WSJ) – Federal investigators are uncovering new layers of fraud in government programs, with a Minnesota man pleading guilty last week to bilking Medicaid...
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Top FDA Vaccine Regulator Vinay Prasad to Depart in April
(Axios) – The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator will leave the agency at the end of April, a Department of Health and...
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Measles Outbreak in Utah Takes a Severe Turn: What You Need to Know
(NBC News) – Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation. Measles patients in...
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Grail’s Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study
(NYTs) – A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in diagnoses...
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Why does women’s pain last longer than men’s? A new study offers an answer
(NBC News) – The research suggests that men’s immune systems have a better mechanism for shutting off pain, which could explain why women have...
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Distraught family blasts Canada for euthanizing son, 26, who suffered from ‘seasonal depression’
(Daily Mail) – A family has accused Canada’s laws of ‘killing the disabled and vulnerable’ months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression,...
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N.J. woman thought her birth control was safe. Now she’s one of over 2,000 suing Pfizer.
(NJ.com via Yahoo!) – Blonski didn’t know the contraception she’d taken for two decades may be linked to her health problems. She was unaware...
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It Was Too Easy for Her to Kill Herself
(The Atlantic) – The case of Eileen Mihich should disturb both advocates and opponents of medically assisted suicide. The four-star Hotel deLuxe in Portland,...
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The Longevity Scam
(The Atlantic) – Today’s longevity-medicine movement is driven by the same aggressive desire for eternal youth as the mythic stories of old. But whereas...
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Family deepfakes help people celebrate and grieve in India
(Rest of World) – There is growing demand for recreating dead and absent family members for events using AI. Sharma is among a growing...
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The Key to Longevity May Be Found Inside Our Cells
(New York Times) – Last summer, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he could tell that someone was having “mitochondrial challenges” just by...
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling
(MIT Tech Review) – We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we’re to trust them with more important tasks. Google...
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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
(Washington Post) – Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and...