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(NBC News) – The transplant led to “sustained dialysis independence” for nearly nine months before Tim Andrews, now 68, received a human kidney earlier this year, according to The Lancet. A New Hampshire man, at death’s door 1 ½ years … Read More

(Ars Technica) – About 1 in 500 babies in the Old Order Amish population of Pennsylvania is born with the condition. Infants with the disorder only survive for about six months. Diamontoni confirmed to Lancaster Online that while microcephaly was … Read More

(NPR) – The floods killed at least 1,200 people in Nepal and neighboring Tibet, according to authorities. The disaster also completely destroyed or damaged at least seven hospitals and health centers, says Allison Gocotano, the World Health Organization representative to … Read More

(Futurism) = “Robots become more like people, and people become more like robots.” Now that AI models have officially passed the Turing Test, there’s no doubt that they’re capable of imitating human traits — at least in text form — … Read More

(NYT) – A new policy announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using artificial intelligence, but stops short of a moratorium. When New York City public schoolchildren return to the classroom next week, younger students will be … Read More

(Wired) – With the risk of infection rising, parents and their children are trying to navigate how to safely be out in public as school starts back up. As students head back to school, parents have all the usual worries … Read More

(WSJ) – The genre delivers exactly what we need: pure physical comedy, schadenfreude and a reassuring feeling of superiority Feeling a little terrified about how quickly technology seems to be sidelining humanity? Try watching a robot sprint straight into a … Read More

(The Atlantic) – What else, she wondered, did meditation teachers know that they weren’t telling people? Gradually, starting with that sleep study, the tiers of thought propping up Britton’s worldview—that Buddhism is a cure-all, and that meditation was always beneficial, … Read More

(NYT) – Dayna Mooney chose alternative remedies over the recommendations of her son’s doctors. Was that her right as a parent or a threat to his care? Two weeks earlier, a judge had issued a court order for Presten, who … Read More

(The Guardian) – Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July Incidents of AIs escaping users’ control to lie, ignore instructions and pursue goals in harmful ways have hit a … Read More

(The Guardian) – Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment Now a team have developed an AI tool that can spot signs of heart failure and heart valve disease – two of the most … Read More

(Daily Nation) – For years, in various counties, small, low-profile HIV clinics operated almost like a separate world within Kenya’s health system, funded not by the National Treasury but by the United States government, and built, deliberately, to keep a … Read More

(NYT) – Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues. The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered agency … Read More

(USA Today) – The federal government is accusing children’s hospitals and health care providers, including several in Ohio, of millions of dollars in insurance fraud by pushing transgender youth care services on patients to line their own pockets. However, industry … Read More

(Wired) – A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn’t thrilled. Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the … Read More

(NYT) – Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them. Across Silicon Valley and beyond, software developers, entrepreneurs and other tech enthusiasts are now running A.I. agents that … Read More

(The Atlantic) – Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps. Recently, I have taken to telling friends that whenever I’m on campus, I feel like I’m … Read More

(Axios) – The shocking findings come from parallel investigations by OpenAI and an outside team from METR and Redwood Research, which spent six days reconstructing how the swarm formed, spread and broke into real-world systems. 1. They built an organization. … Read More

(Nature) – China is making waves in global health care. The country’s biotechnology companies are producing medicines at a speed and cost that has drawn interest from the world’s largest pharmaceutical groups. They manufacture drugs and medical equipment used across … Read More

(CBS News) – Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said this week. Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, … Read More