Category «Medicine»

At least 13.5% of biomedical science papers’ abstracts last year were likely crafted using artificial intelligence chatbots

Science Advances: “Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases. Yet, many scientists use them for their scholarly writing. But how widespread is such LLM usage in the academic literature? To answer this question for …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.

The New York Times – no paywall – “Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud. As the Trump administration has sought to amass personally sensitive data on millions of individuals in America, it has run into one roadblock. The states, and …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research, Medicine, Poverty, Privacy

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

Wired – no paywall: “A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government, Freilich, Janet et al. The Lancet. Published July 3, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01249-8 – “A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in the …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

The Air Quality Index and how to use it, explained

Vox: “It’s not enough to trust the senses to know when it’s a bad air day. Well before you can see or smell smoke, it can start wreaking havoc on the lungs. That haze you can see and smell on a particularly polluted day is made of ozone and fine particulate matter. Fine particulate matter, …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care, Medicine

The U.S. government is failing on vaccine policy

STAT – The Vaccine Integrity Project is here to help: “Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services floated new standards for vaccine approvals, rescinded longstanding Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women, and fired all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee. These actions represent a …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Health Care, Medicine

U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

Science: “…The federal government has paused or terminated billions of dollars of grants, proposed slashing research funding by more than 40% for key research agencies in the next fiscal year, and tried—so far without success—to cut overhead payments to universities. Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Health Care, Legislation, Medicine

Stand Up for Science

“Stand Up for Science was born in February 2025—in the wake of devastating cuts to federal research funding and infrastructure, unprecedented government censorship of scientific work, and targeted attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Supported by a team of over 100 volunteers, we hosted over 30 official Stand Up for Science rallies on March …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Medicine

Federal Judge – HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted

AP: “A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation’s health workforce. U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose granted the preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of attorneys general from …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know

Nature: “From 1 July, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. That’s according to the agency’s latest public-access policy, aimed at making federally funded research accessible to taxpayers. US …

Subjects: Education, Freedom of Information, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech

Via LLRX – We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca of The Markup and CalMatters …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Medicine, Privacy, Social Media

Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls

Wired – no paywall: “Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. A WIRED investigation into 911 calls from 10 of the nation’s largest immigration detention centers found that serious medical incidents are rising at many of the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

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