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Doctors Told Him He Was Going To Die. Then AI Saved His Life
Utilizing artificial intelligence for drug repurposing, doctors identified an alternative therapy that significantly improved a rare blood disorder for 37-year-old Joseph Coates. Read More.
NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow?
With the NIH no longer providing funding for various mRNA vaccine research projects, researchers wonder if more cuts will follow. Advocates fear these actions may hinder advancements in mRNA vaccine development and in biomedical research [...]
In Memoriam: Tomi Kushner, PhD
Dr. Thomasine Kushner or Tomi as she liked to be called, Bioethicist at Sutter Health’s Program in Medicine and Human Values and Founder and Editor, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics passed away peacefully on 2/7/25 [...]
Pressure for IVF success obscures ethical issues
In vitro fertilization has grown to a $3 billion industry in the U.S. that is responsible for more than 1 million babies. But implanting several embryos under pressure for success often obscures potential complications and [...]
‘Breakthrough’ deep brain stimulation device for Parkinson’s to make clinical debut
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 21 (UPI) -- Parkinson's disease patients and advocates are marking the start of a new era for treatment of the illness, as a doctors deploy a breakthrough neurological device for the [...]
Ok, confession… The cringiest thing I did as an intern?
The cringiest thing I did as an intern? I barely spoke to anyone unless they spoke to me first. No proactive coffee chats. No "Would love to learn about your work!" Slack messages. Just me, chilling [...]
The Doctor, the Biohacker, and the Quest to Treat Their Long COVID
THE DOCTOR IS HERE NOW. Matthew Light, MD, pops onscreen in his baby-blue T-shirt beneath a cardigan. He’s 42, with hair graying on the sides, a narrow nose, thick dark eyebrows. Patients from all walks [...]
New illness sweeps across America | PUPPET REGIME
A new epidemic is sweeping across America. Share with a friend to raise awareness of DDS. Read More.
2025 World Happiness Report shows U.S. in lowest-ever spot on list
The US has fallen to its lowest ever ranking on the 2025 World Happiness Report, which highlighted the impact of sharing and caring on human happiness. Read More.
How Realistic Is the Severance Procedure? Brain Surgeons Have Some Thoughts
Brain surgeons weigh in on how realistic and feasible is the identity-splitting brain implant featured in the hit TV show Severance. Read More.
Generation Xanax: The Dark Side of America’s Wonder Drug
Patients prescribed benzodiazepines like Xanax are facing debilitating withdrawal effects when trying to quit. Read More.
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The virologist had recently started an independent group at the University [...]
Tuberculosis Doesn’t Pause
I spent 10 years as a tuberculosis doctor working in the US and worldwide. Recent funding cuts to global TB programs aren't just stalling progress—they're actively reversing decades of advances against the world's deadliest infectious disease. Read More.
Eye-Popping WHO Report Shows Measles Surging Across the Globe
Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, [...]
Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first
An incredible medical achievement! An Australian man in his forties became the first person in the world to live with an artificial heart made of titanium for more than three months until he underwent surgery [...]
How to be a compensated connector
The ‘Build, Operate, Share’ (’BOS) is a new dynamic Socio-Economic World Order of the digital era, guiding the future to establish a paradigm shift—one where technology, capital and human potential are harnessed through potential efficiency gain to [...]
Tracing Epistemic Injustice in Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research
An article authored by BEI Advisory Board Member Phaik Yeong argues that research on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of antimicrobial-resistant infections, as well as related policies, suffers from epistemic injustices that similarly affects global health [...]
Digital Humans – Helpful Assistants or Deceptive Trust-Creators?
Digital humans, developed by Soul Machines, are AI-driven entities designed to assist in customer service, healthcare, and education by mimicking human expressions and interactions. While their creators argue that human-like AI fosters trust and efficiency, [...]
Japan Turns to AI-Driven Robots to Tackle Elderly Care Crisis
Japan is turning to AI-driven robot nurses to assist in elderly care with the AIREC humanoid robot that is designed to perform caregiving tasks like repositioning patients. Read More.
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.5, its largest and most intensive AI model to date. This aims to enhance ChatGPT's understanding of user prompts. Read More.
Train Clinical AI To Reason Like A Team Of Doctors
Following a surge of excitement after the launch of the artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, governments worldwide have been striving to craft policies that will foster AI development while ensuring the technology remains [...]
AI robots may hold key to nursing Japan’s aging population
Due to a population decline and healthcare professional shortages, Japan sees its opportunity to properly care for the elderly by using robot nurses. While the Moravec paradox is against that, the intention is understandable. Read More.
Digital Humans – Helpful Assistants Or Deceptive Trust-Creators
Digital humans are increasingly being used to interact with real humans. The question is, are they helpful assistants, or is there something dishonest about their ‘employment’? Read More.
Train Clinical AI to Reason Like a Team of Doctors
Christopher R. S. Banerji, Tapabrata Chakraborti, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Florian Ostamnn, and Ben D. MacArthur propose that encoding conceptual reasoning in AI, mirroring established clinical decision-making processes, can support oversight and act as a blueprint [...]
Pig organs in people: The future of cross-species transplants
More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs [...]