The pandemic showed that Big Tech isn’t a public health saviorTwo days after the World Health Organization declared that the coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic, then-President Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden next to a flow chart. The chart promised that soon, it would be easy for anyone in the United… Jun 03 21June 03, 2021Article at The Verge
Federal judge says research can't be used to link acetaminophen to autism, ADHDThe judge said plaintiffs don't have "admissible evidence" supporting claims. Johnson & Johnson Tylenol brand pain reliever pills are arranged for a photograph in Hastings on Hudson, New York, Jan. 14, 2020. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty… Dec 20 23December 20, 2023Article at ABC News
Maternal care deserts overlap with lack of abortion access, analysis showsLack of maternal care affects millions of women. Pregnancy care access declining across the United States A new report on maternity care access from March of Dimes found vast inaccessibility across the country. Over 1.7 million women, nearly 3% of… Aug 01 23August 01, 2023Article at ABC News
Cyberattacks on hospitals are growing threats to patient safety, experts sayThe number of attacks on U.S. hospitals each year doubled between 2016 and 2021. Cyberattacks pose growing threat to US hospitals ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports on the risk to patient safety as hackers target hospitals with cyberattacks, and what… May 10 23May 10, 2023Article at ABC News
Continuous glucose monitor startups still have to prove their worthI have rarely, if ever, thought about my blood sugar. I think about sugar on occasion — the dentist demands it, and I get a headache when I eat an entire bag of Haribo dinosaur gummies. But a new spate of startups wants me, and everyone, to start… Nov 21 22November 21, 2022Article at The Verge
The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandateThe COVID-19 pandemic was still raging when a federal judge in Florida made the fateful decision to type “sanitation” into the search bar of the Corpus of Historical American English. Many parts of the country had already dropped mask requirements,… Jun 07 22June 07, 2022Article at The Verge
Behind the expert testimony in the ‘Fitbit murder’ trialThis week, a Connecticut jury convicted Richard Dabate of murder in the killing of his wife, Connie Dabate, after a five-week-long trial that hinged — in part — on data from her Fitbit. Richard said a man dressed in camouflage broke into their home… May 12 22May 12, 2022Article at The Verge
A lawsuit could accelerate research on tear gas and menstrual changesLanora Vasquez wasn’t at any of the protests against police brutality that spread through the city of Portland in summer of 2020. But she lived in Portland, near where the protests happened and where police officers regularly fired off canisters of… Jan 27 22January 27, 2022Article at The Verge
The Holmes trial is about moneyProsecutor Jeffrey Schenk opened his closing arguments in the case against Elizabeth Holmes by talking about a banker. Holmes knew Theranos, the company she founded, was running out of money, and she was on the phone asking her banker to clear a… Dec 17 21December 17, 2021Article at The Verge
Facebook isn’t telling the whole story about its mental health researchEver since The Wall Street Journal published internal Facebook research that found Instagram harmed the well-being of teenage girls, the company’s defense has been to minimize and dismiss its own findings — saying documents were only relevant for… Oct 28 21October 28, 2021Article at The Verge
Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’It’s been over two years since Samsung first announced that its Galaxy Watch would be able to measure people’s blood pressure. The feature is available in a number of countries, including South Korea, but not in the United States — the company is… Sep 16 21September 16, 2021Article at The Verge
The ambitious effort to piece together America’s fragmented health dataFrom the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiologist Melissa Haendel knew that the United States was going to have a data problem. There didn’t seem to be a national strategy to control the virus, and cases were springing up in sporadic… Oct 19 20October 19, 2020Article at The Verge
Telehealth wasn’t designed for non-English speakersWhen David Velasquez went home to California for a week in April, he found out that his parents didn’t have internet access anymore. Velasquez, a medical student at Harvard, needs Wi-Fi for work. However, his parents don’t own a computer. “They don’t… Jun 04 20June 04, 2020Article at The Verge
The ‘Arms Race’ to Build a Better Baby FormulaBaby-formula makers have long attempted to produce a product that confers as many of the benefits of breast milk as possible. “For babies who cannot be exclusively breastfed—what can we do to help those babies get at least one part of this important… Oct 31 19October 31, 2019Article at WSJ
Bad Police Fingerprint Work Undermines Chicago Property Crime CasesEyewitness testimony was shaky, so Cook County prosecutors relied on a fingerprint lifted from a laptop as their key evidence in the trial of a juvenile charged with robbery. The strategy did not go well. Presiding over the 2016 case, Judge Stuart… Mar 12 19March 12, 2019Article at Better Government Association