New Heart Guidelines Fail to Clarify Mid-Risk PE
A massive multi-center study reveals that the new 2026 AHA/ACC pulmonary embolism framework adds clinical complexity without improving risk prediction for the vast majority of patients.
Nurses Fight to Stop AI Replacing Human Care
Hospital administrators are treating clinical artificial intelligence as a cost-saving cure, but the frontline workforce sees a direct threat to patient safety.
AI Triages Rheumatology Referrals as Well as Doctors
A new study shows that smart prompting makes cheap, small AI models triage patients just as safely as expensive ones.
The Surgery AI Report — August 2026
Artificial intelligence-supported segmentation of cardiac anatomy in open-heart surgery videos
Medicare Closes One Regulatory Gap But Opens Another
The federal government's new plan to rescue medical devices from regulatory limbo comes with a hidden catch that could leave many innovators behind.
How FHIR data format changes AI clinical quality
Feeding raw medical data directly into clinical AI models might be degrading their performance without anyone noticing.
Regulators Cut Duplicative Gene Therapy Testing
The FDA is letting drugmakers recycle data from past trials to speed up gene therapies, but this regulatory shortcut places a massive burden of proof on developers.
AI learns genetic disease boundaries from health records
An attention-based AI model has mapped the genetic boundaries between neurological and psychiatric diseases using nothing but raw electronic health records.
AI scribes are not saving healthcare
Automating clinical notes was the easy part, but the real administrative crisis happens after the patient leaves the room.
AI predicts blood pressure drops during dialysis
A new machine learning model helps ICU nurses predict dangerous blood pressure drops before starting renal replacement therapy.