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Utah Sandbox Approves AI Prescription Refills
State regulators are letting algorithms handle routine prescription renewals to ease severe clinician shortages.
AI Speeds Qualitative Research But Misses Patient Depth
Large language models can process qualitative health data six times faster than humans, but...
Fixing Counterfeit Drug Tracking With Digital Standards
Paper-based tracking allows falsified medicines to circulate for months before health authorities notice.
Hospitals Underdiagnose Migraines While Overusing Scans
More than half of patients receiving migraine treatments in Türkiye never get an official...
The Health AI Brief — Week of October 12, 2026
AI predicts survival for rare unseen cancers
AI ECGs Move Closer to Hospital Use
Routine ten-second heart traces can now spot hidden conditions like heart failure and diabetes...
Neutrophil Counts Signal Hidden Heart Risk in Arthritis
Routine blood tests and simple clinical models can spot hidden cardiometabolic danger in rheumatoid...
Stockport Replaces 30-Year-Old Pathology System
Replacing a 1992 legacy system, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has completed a full pathology...
Personalized CPAP Settings Boost Patient Therapy Adherence
A causal AI model suggests default sleep machine settings are leaving patient adherence on...
Advanced CKM Syndrome Doubles Incident Cancer Risk
A landmark UK Biobank study reveals that advanced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome sharply increases cancer risk,...
Government announces £20 million investment into digital referrals from high street optometrists to secondary care
A £20 million digital upgrade will let optometrists send patients directly to hospital eye...
DeepSeek Outperforms ChatGPT in Urology Student Trial
Medical students using Chinese reasoning model DeepSeek R1 scored significantly higher on urology exams...