Appeals court judges seem skeptical of Trump administration’s defense of capping NIH overhead payments: Nearly two dozen states sued to block sharp cuts to research indirect cost rates www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/n... via @statnews.com

The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health - Nicole Foti, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Researchers ‘decode’ Mandarin Chinese from neural signals: Advances in brain-computer interfaces could help millions who use tonal languages speak again after stroke or disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Why does your doctor seem so rushed and dismissive? That bedside manner may be the result of the health care system theconversation.com/why-does-you...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup - Erroneous Filings, Chatbots Debunk, AI Brain Rot, Limiting Autonomous Weapons, AI Is Not God, AI Music, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, + More mailchi.mp/d01c24da587e...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup: Editing Human Embryos? Chimps Weigh Evidence, Rewiring the Past, Artificial Brains, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, Children Banned from Chatbot Use, Blockchain Biobanking, Personalized Gene Editing, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

A declaration of famine is rare. It's now happened twice in 2025, this time in Sudan | Goats and Soda : NPR www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Are AI Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

Frankenstein and the problem of abandonment - A new adaptation of the cautionary tale is an opportunity to reflect on scientific stewardship | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids: Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/s...

The need for a global effort to attend to human neural organoid and assembloid research: A continuing international process is needed to monitor and advise this rapidly progressing field - Sergiu Pasca, Paola Arlotta, Philip Campbell et al., incl. our Jeremy Sugarman www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Images for AI use can be sourced responsibly: A high-quality image data set shows that tech companies can obtain informed consent and avoid data bias without breaking the bank. | Nature Editorial www.nature.com/articles/d41...

FDA digital advisers confront risks of therapy chatbots, weigh possible regulation. The meeting comes amid mounting negative reports about conversational artificial intelligence tools www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f... via @statnews.com

Pancreatic cancer trials fuel hope for new drug fast-tracked by FDA - Revolution Medicines received an unconventional FDA fast-track designation for its experimental drug based on early clinical trial results | The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - New Events, Human Embryo Editing, Feels Like Home, Shredded Cred, Hard to Find Evidence, Stuck in Limbo, Brain Rot, Lost SNAP, Alone and Unhoused, Medical Care for Transgender Youth, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Iowa has an OB-GYN shortage. Is the state's abortion ban partially to blame? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Can AI be truly creative? Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is Covid During Pregnancy Linked to Autism? What a New Study Shows, and What It Doesn't - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Main U.S. funder of physical sciences chops down advisory panels, alarms researchers. Scientists fear merger of Department of Energy advisory committees that gave them their voices at agency | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Narratives before numbers: Reimagining conversations about race, ethnicity, and ancestry information in genetic counseling practice - Emily Peugh, Sara Chandros Hull, Leila Jamal | Journal of Genetic Counseling - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Measles Elimination Status Threatened in U.S. and Canada - A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Delayed Revision, Decentralized Biobanking, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, Reducing Attrition, Narratives Before Numbers, Responsible Sharing of Qualitative Data, Islamic Conceptions of Human Dignity, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Experts worry FDA’s credibility is being shredded by scandal and ‘soap opera’: In recent months, the agency has been beset by dismissals, policy reversals, and controversies. www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/f... via @statnews.com

Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too | Shots - Health News - NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Safeguards for virology must be designed in partnership with the public - by Caesar Alimsinya Atuire & Jonathan Ewbank | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First clinical trial transplanting pig kidneys into people begins - the study’s initial transplant was performed successfully at NYU Langone Health. | AP News apnews.com/article/pig-...

New paper thread 🧵 Out today in Annals of Internal Medicine, Stephanie Morain @bermaninstitute.bsky.social and I discuss the role of IRBs in facilitating appropriate inclusion of pregnant people in clinical research: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... (1/6)

#Bioethics Seminar - Mary Catherine Beach, "Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Patient Health Records to Promote Respect for Patients" - Mon, Nov 10, Noon. Open to all, attend in-person, lunch provided, Feinstone Hall, @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social - Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole - Carl Elliott | Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree? A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump’s HHS Orders State Medicaid Programs To Help Find Undocumented Immigrants - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online — Junk science leaves an indelible mark. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Free-Text Responses in a Nationally Representative Experimental Survey about End-of-Life Care Choices: ChatGPT-4o-Assisted Qualitative Analytical Study - Elizabeth Goldberg, Mario Macis, Megan Bounds et al. | JMIR Aging aging.jmir.org/2025/1/e76335

Leveraging artificial intelligence and technology for patient safety: Opportunities, risks, and challenges - Odia Kane, Albert W. Wu | Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Rummaging Rebooted: Advances in digital surveillance technologies have posed difficult questions for Fourth Amendment doctrine - Natalie Ram | Technology Law cyber.jotwell.com/rummaging-re...

Reducing Registry Members’ Attrition When Invited to Donate : Evidence from a Large Stem Cell Registry - Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Mario Macis et al. | American Journal of Health Economics: Vol 11, No 4 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Now accepting applications - Ruth R Faden Professorship of Education in Bioethics: Seeking a proven leader in bioethics education, with a track record of excellence and innovation in bioethics education. Link for more information and to apply, deadline - December 15 apply.interfolio.com/175471

Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely? In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The challenge of creating brains in a lab - Lab-grown brains don’t have to inspire horror. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

CDC employees on chaos of being fired, rehired and fired again: ‘stuck in limbo’. Americans’ health in jeopardy as agency plunged into tumult and inefficiency even after court ruled firings illegal | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’: Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Decentralized Biobanking to Empower Patient Engagement in Biospecimen Research: Operational Feasibility Case Study - By Ananya Dewan, Vivian Altiery De Jesus, Eve Budd, William Sanchez, Jeff Kahn, Robert Miller, Mario Macis, Marielle Gross www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup: Bailout, Plastic Packaging, Wireless Sensor Networks, Whole Foods, MAHA & Healthy Eating, Refugees, Food Banks, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC: Researchers dismayed by the targeting of Preventing Chronic Disease’s editorial staff | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Judy Stone and Judith Feinberg: Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid - Recent discussions about Covid vaccines have overlooked this important group www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c... via @statnews.com

HHS Nixes Another USPSTF Meeting — Preventive services group hasn't met since March | MedPage Today www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

How States Are Preparing for a Freeze in Federal Food Assistance: The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will run out of money on Saturday. Some governors are shifting state money to cover part of the shortfall, bolster food pantries or both. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Workslop, Why AI Hallucinates, Why AI Breaks Bad, In Love With A Chatbot, Sycophantic Chatbots, Misrepresenting News, Supercharging Inequality, Powering Surveillance Tech, Carebot Governance, + More mailchi.mp/f721b3bb5d9c...

New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos. 7 years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children | w comments from our @jeffkahnbioethics.bsky.social | WIRED www.wired.com/story/startu...