9 Best Articles in 2021
The Washington Post
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes
The Washington Post
5 min read · 614 saves · 2020-04-24 · Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by coronavirus.
The Atlantic
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
The Atlantic
7 min read · 316 saves · 2020-07-27 · Derek Thompson · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
MIT Technology Review
Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 238 saves · 2020-04-27 · If AI is really going to make a difference to patients we need to know how it works when real humans get their hands on it, in real situations.
MIT Technology Review
The coronavirus pandemic is a game changer for mental health care
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 174 saves · 2020-03-20 · Regulatory changes and anxiety heightened by isolation are leading to a boom in use of mental health apps and teletherapy—but are they good enough?
WIRED
This Algorithm Doesn't Replace Doctors—It Makes Them Better
WIRED
2 min read · 169 saves · 2020-07-17 · Tom Simonite · An artificial intelligence system has outperformed physicians when detecting skin lesions. The results are changing how one school trains dermatologists.
The New York Times
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
The New York Times
10 min read · 161 saves · 2020-07-05 · New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.
Science Magazine
From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists
Science Magazine
~18 min read · 151 saves · 2020-07-31 · Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
The New York Times
How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread
The New York Times
20+ min read · 148 saves · 2020-06-27 · Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence.
The New York Times
It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life.
The New York Times
9 min read · 139 saves · From 2017 · An overhaul championed by President Trump and Republican leaders could reshape health care, education and social services.
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How AI Has Completely Transformed Medtech
Entrepreneur
2 min read · 46 saves · Jan 21st · The future of medical technology rests in the hands of artificial intelligence that...doesn't have hands.
The New Yorker
Black America Has Reason to Question Authorities
The New Yorker
8 min read · 39 saves · Jan 10th · From vaccines to public schools, a history of cruelty and neglect informs Black communities’ relation to the state.
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities
World Health Organization (WHO)
3 min read · 36 saves · Jan 12th · A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet aims to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition…
The New Yorker
Stories from the Smallpox Scare
The New Yorker
2 min read · 32 saves · Jan 10th · From 1947: New York City’s health commissioner denies the “crackpot” rumors about the smallpox vaccination, which rolled out to more than six million New Yorkers over the course of a month.
Engadget
Hitting the Books: AI doctors and the dangers tiered medical care
Engadget
27 saves · Jan 23rd · Frank Pasquale’s 'New Laws of Robotics' shows how the promise of faster, more efficient medical diagnoses from AIs can also be a double-edged sword, cutting off access to the quality care provided by…
Vox
It’s essential to understand why some health care workers are putting off vaccination
Vox
9 min read · 23 saves · Jan 11th · Early data on why health care workers are delaying the Covid-19 vaccine could help us end the pandemic sooner.
WIRED
New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
WIRED
2 min read · 18 saves · Jan 25th · Machine learning programs trained with patient reports, rather than doctors', find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.
WIRED
The Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Faces a Two-Shot Problem
WIRED
2 min read · 17 saves · Jan 13th · Millions of follow-up doses have been languishing in freezers, causing a massive logjam—and not everyone likes the ideas for a fix.
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It's Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare
a16z
10 min read · 17 saves · Jan 8th · For too long, we’ve confused the status quo for stasis in healthcare. But then came 2020. Here are the 16 biggest trends driving us into the future of biology, medicine, and healthcare.
The Atlantic
Why Israel’s Vaccine Success Might Be Hard to Replicate
The Atlantic
9 min read · 13 saves · Jan 23rd · Uri Friedman · A credible health-care system may be the key determinant to success.
