Semafor • Oct 8, 2025
Duke University AI research speeds drug design for cancer treatments
Researchers developed a system to speed up the design of drug-delivering nanoparticles in the human body, which can more directly target ailments.
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Mother Jones • Oct 8, 2025
One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health
A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]
Semafor • Oct 8, 2025
Top Senate Democrat takes health care fight to red states
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is planning a virtual press conference with Democrats in neighboring Idaho.
Lever News • Oct 7, 2025
Brain Tumors, Big Pharma, And A Legal Escape Hatch
Women say Depo-Provera caused their brain tumors. Pfizer is invoking a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.
Semafor Podcasts • Oct 6, 2025
Gates Foundation CEO & Board Member Mark Suzman from Semafor’s Next 3 Billion Studio
Semafor • Oct 6, 2025
Immune system research wins Nobel Prize in medicine
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered that the immune system has safeguards which prevent it from attacking our own cells.
Mother Jones • Oct 6, 2025
If You Want to Stay Healthy and Care About Humanity, Here’s What to Eat
This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet—which allows moderate meat consumption—and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by […]
Semafor • Oct 2, 2025
Democrats: It's more of a health care fight than a shutdown
Holding the line to keep the government closed is painful for them, but most of them saw it as the only way to start their comeback.
Semafor • Oct 2, 2025
Top vaccine provider says its shots saved 1.7M lives in 2024
Gavi, the world’s largest vaccine funder, now faces a funding shortfall following the shutdown of USAID.
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‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
The Conversation •
Confused by the new dietary guidelines? Focus on these simple, evidence-based shifts to lower your chronic disease risk
The Conversation •
Certain brain injuries may be linked to violent crime – identifying them could help reveal how people make moral choices
The Conversation •
Stroke survivors can counterintuitively improve recovery by strengthening their stronger arm – new research
The Conversation •
US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here’s what the US, and world, will lose
The Conversation •
RFK’s Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks
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RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk’s Biggest Fan. Now He Won’t Return Industry Calls.
Mother Jones •
A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and striking
The Conversation •
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