Teddy Rosenbluth

New York

Science Fellow at The New York Times

@nytimes science/health fellow. Before: @newsobserver @LAmag, @smdailypress, @ConMonitorNews, @Report4America, @dailybruin

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Articles

Kennedy Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

Share With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an H.H.S. spokesman.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease. With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an H.H.S. spokesman.
Citing NIH cuts, a top science journal stops accepting submissions - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Teddy Rosenbluth |Apoorva Mandavilli

Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain. For more than 50 years, the journal has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to review studies on the health effects of environmental toxins -- from forever chemicals to air pollution -- and publish the research free of charge.
Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth |Apoorva Mandavilli

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists. Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain.
5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative. Soon after President Donald J. Trump took office for his second term, thousands of health websites run by the federal government that kept the public informed about infectious diseases, mental health, vaccines and more were taken offline.
This therapist helped clients feel better. It was AI

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

Editor’s note: This story focuses on suicide, self-harm and other topics related to psychiatric distress. If you or a loved one is in crisis, resources are available at: st.news/resources. The quest to create an artificial intelligence therapist has not been without setbacks, or as researchers at Dartmouth thoughtfully describe them, “dramatic failures.”Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its own suicidal thoughts.
Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter. A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world's most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against certain views and influenced by external pressures.
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth |Apoorva Mandavilli

Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019. The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday. The New York Times obtained a recording of the meeting. Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not publicly described the outbreak in such stark terms.
Este terapeuta ayud√≥ a que los usuarios se sintieran mejor. Era una IA

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth

En el primer ensayo clínico de este tipo, un chatbot de IA dio alivio a los síntomas de salud mental de los participantes. La tecnología podría ayudar algún día a resolver la escasez de terapeutas. La búsqueda por crear un terapeuta de inteligencia artificial no ha estado exenta de contratiempos, o como los investigadores de Dartmouth los describen juiciosamente, "fracasos dramático s ". Su primer chatbot terapeuta se sumía en la desesperación y expresaba sus propios pensamientos suicidas.
Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Teddy Rosenbluth |Rebecca Robbins

An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications. A federal prosecutor has sent letters to at least three medical journals accusing them of political bias and asking a series of probing questions suggesting that the journals mislead readers, suppress opposing viewpoints and are inappropriately swayed by their funders.