Baltimore Is Rethinking What It Means To Call 911 — And Who Responds - KFF Health News | WYPR kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Baltimore Is Rethinking What It Means To Call 911 — And Who Responds - KFF Health News

The city wants to stop health crises before they happen and is creating a new service to do that when people call 911.

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Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cancer survivors need protection from future discrimination, say German politicians. Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance. | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Cancer survivors need protection from future discrimination, say German politicians

Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance

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Why the need for the WHO has never been greater. Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach. By Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why the need for the WHO has never been greater

Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach.

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“It is sickening”. Trump administration admits cancellation of Maryland energy grants was political www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Trump administration admits cancellation of Maryland energy grants was political

Department of Energy attorneys admitted in recent court filings that it cancelled grants, including over $80 million for Maryland projects, based on how states voted in the 2024 presidential election.

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#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Student Vision Screening, Empathic Comms, Honoring Assent? Stakeholder Views of Patient Registries, Defensive Discrimination, In-Hospital Substance Use, ECT, Other Side of the Stethoscope, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

I’m glad that ABC News put “medical emergency“ in quotes, since ICE lies as a matter of policy.

Man detained at New Jersey immigration facility dies after 'medical emergency': ICE

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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Aw, It’s Baby’s First AI Surveillance System www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...

Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data

Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.

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Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...

Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP

SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.

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People With Disabilities Fear Service Cuts as Trump’s DOJ Questions Legal Protections kffhealthnews.org/syndicate/pe...

People With Disabilities Fear Service Cuts as Trump’s DOJ Questions Legal Protections - KFF Health News

The Department of Justice in June issued a legal opinion saying states aren’t required to provide services that help people with disabilities remain in their homes. The new position has added momentum...

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When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study theconversation.com/when-express...

When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study

People who interact with expressive robots that make mistakes react with suspicion rather than seeing the bots as malfunctioning machines.

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Lawmakers flooded statehouses this year with bills seeking to dismantle vaccination rules or raise questions about vaccine safety, introducing more than 200 measures in 34 states. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dozens of States Tried to Roll Back Vaccine Laws. Here’s How They Fared.

Lawmakers have introduced hundreds of bills related to vaccines this year. Their proposals offer a window into the modern movement against the shots.

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Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Industrial Chicken Farming and Bacteria, GM Crop Rules, Worse Foodborne Outbreaks Ahead? Food Waste Fix with a Major Catch, Helpful Insects, Progressive Deterioration, Migrant Remittances, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Vision screening outcomes and follow-up intervals among socioeconomically disadvantaged students from a school-based vision program. YuQing Xu, Xinxing Guo, Kendall Stout, David Friedman, Michael Repka, Megan Collins www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Maryland man won ‘teacher of the year.’ Then ICE grabbed him at an airport. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

A Maryland man won ‘teacher of the year.’ Then ICE grabbed him at an airport.

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret won a teacher of the year award this month right before federal immigration enforcement agents arrested him for allegedly overstayin...

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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

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ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administrati...

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State Department Map Mislabels African Countries at AIDS Conference. Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

State Department Map Mislabels African Countries at AIDS Conference

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans. Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...

AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

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New US rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews. Vague language and extensive reviews could impede potentially useful research, some scientists fear. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews

Vague language and extensive reviews could impede potentially useful research, some scientists fear

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AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Worst Way to Regulate AI, Deals, Mixed Feelings, Finding Flaws, What Comes After AI Slop? Private Claude Chats Exposed, Support for Regulation, Mapping Governance, Risk-Tiered Governance, + More mailchi.mp/721cb638fe66...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Consciousness Research Moment, The Heart Has a 'Little Brain', Biomedically Enhanced Love, Barely Publishing, AI Measurement Problem, Hidden Bias, Young Mitochondria, Probe Launched, Brain Organoid Computer, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Bioethical Responsibilities in 21st Century Crises, Line Between Life & Death, Controversial Fertility Technique, Uncertain Futures, Added Barriers, Vaccines, Probe into Gene-Editing Death Launched, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the AHRQ’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. kffhealthnews.org/news/ahrq-fu...

Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News

Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...

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Trump will end subsidies for Medicare drug premiums. The decision means that millions of Americans 65 and older could face higher Medicare drug premiums next year, when the cost of living is already a major concern. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums

Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.

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Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse - Care will be in shorter supply, travel distances will stretch farther, and high-risk situations will more likely result in tragedy. | The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse

Care will be in shorter supply, travel distances will stretch farther, and high-risk situations will more likely result in tragedy.

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Fauci said he was doing so because it seemed clear “that the sole reason [Paul] is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars.’” www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/f...

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in declining to answer questions before Senate panel

At a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about the Covid-19 pandemic and its origins.

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#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Wastewater-Based Disease Surveillance, Evaluating Intervention Effects on Disparities, Donation-Based Prosocial Interventions for Health, Pregnancy & Opioid Use Disorder in Jails, Human Enhancement Technologies + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...