FTC Sues Hims Over Patient Privacy Failures
The federal lawsuit against Hims & Hers exposes the dangerous friction between rapid telehealth growth and basic consumer privacy.
AI combines scans to predict heart valve disease
By fusing electrical and structural data, a new multimodal model flags hidden heart valve risks before symptoms appear.
AI passing medical exams cannot save patients
Passing a multiple-choice medical exam does not make an AI safe to treat real patients.
AI spots lung cancer earlier than radiologists
A massive screening study reveals that chest X-ray AI can flag lung tumors before human radiologists, but its real value lies in how we manage the noise it creates.
The Opportunistic Screening Era
AI developers are shifting from specialized imaging to opportunistic screening, extracting systemic disease markers from routine, low-cost clinical data like basic ECGs, retinal photos, and wearable pulse signals.
AI Toilet Cameras Target the Wearable Blindspot
Silicon Valley wants to monitor the one vital health metric your smartwatch cannot reach.
AI finds biased language in half of pregnancy records
A new AI analysis reveals that nearly half of all pregnancy records contain stigmatizing language, with Black and less-educated patients bearing the brunt of clinical bias.
Predicting Diabetes a Decade Before Diagnosis
Predictive algorithms can now spot type 2 diabetes risk ten years in advance, but the real bottleneck is how healthcare systems will handle millions of newly flagged patients.
AI reads clinical notes to predict cancer survival
A patient's fate is often hidden in the messy paragraphs of their medical charts rather than their official disease stage.
Can Voluntary Pledges Actually Kill the Clipboard?
A year into a massive push to digitize healthcare administration, the tension between voluntary industry promises and hard regulatory mandates is reaching a tipping point.