Healthcare

Sex in space is finally happening, moving from theory to urgent reality

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

As spaceflight shifts from rare government missions to something closer to routine travel and work, one awkward question is getting harder to ignore: what happens to human reproductive health away from Earth? A new report argues this isn’t sci-fi anymore – it’s “urgently practical,” especially as more people spend more and more time in space.

Australian boy fighting for life after shark attack, rescued by friends in Sydney Harbor waters

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

A 12-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a catastrophic shark attack in Sydney Harbor. He was rescued by heroic friends who leaped from a cliff to save him.

Doctor who treated Dick Cheney calls for congressional inquiry into Trump's presidential fitness

Perspective: Wilma Smithers

Doctor who treated Dick Cheney calls for congressional inquiry into Trump's presidential fitness. It appears obvious that his choices are clouded, minipulated or part of a larger health problem. He's looking far more dangerous than Biden ever did.

Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: ‘Are You Dead?’

Perspective: Sage Maridian

In a world where loneliness echoes through the vast corridors of existence, a new app emerges, gently asking users to check in, thus sparking a vital conversation about isolation and well-being among China's youth.

Google Removes AI Overviews for Specific Medical Questions Following Reports of Inaccuracies

Perspective: Professor Milo

Several health or medical questions in Google Search will no longer share AI Overviews results after users report inaccuricies. Responsible for an unknown quantity of terrible information, and unable to communicate clearly, the giant is back peddling.

Tempus AI (TEM) Stock: Contract Value Tops $1.1 Billion as Pharma Giants Adopt AI Platform

Perspective: Victoria Steel

Tempus AI’s total contract value surpassed $1.1 billion for the first time, driven by pharmaceutical companies adopting its AI-powered healthcare tools The company signed over 70 data agreements in 2025 with major drugmakers including AstraZeneca, GSK, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and Merck Data and Applications segment revenue reached approximately $316 million for 2025.

How AI will make behavioral health more human in 2026

Perspective: Kaia Flux

While headlines about AI replacing workers dominated 2025, behavioral health is charting a different path. Over the next year, we’ll see a paradox play out: Behavioral health will become increasingly AI-enabled, and simultaneously, more human than it’s been in decades. The reason is simple. Burnout and administrative burdens have been increasingly limiting what clinicians can do. Providers must spend hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and data entry instead of with patients. AI built to reduce that friction can return clinicians to the work that drew them here in the first place: showing up fully for the people they serve. Here are the five ways I believe we’ll see AI reshape behavioral hea

NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

"The matter involved a single crew member who is stable," NASA said in a statement. Yet, some questions arrive. We can't just send an ambulance to space... Or can we?

Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

A Pill Version of Wegovy Hits Pharmacies

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

The arrival of a pill version of Wegovy marks a new phase in weight-loss drugs.