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AI identifies drug-resistant bacteria in two hours
A new microfluidic AI platform cuts bacterial resistance testing down to two hours, challenging...

Smartphones detect cognitive decline faster than clinics
Moving dementia testing from annual clinic visits to daily smartphone check-ins could solve a...

Urine test detects early lung cancer using AI
A new machine-learning model spots lung cancer from a simple urine sample, challenging the...

Insurers Face Backlash Over Automated Care Denials
Algorithms are making medical decisions, and doctors are fighting back against the silent machine...

AI groups early colon cancer recurrence risks
Unsupervised machine learning reveals that tumor shape, not just invasion depth, dictates whether early...

Fixing the Broken Escalator of Youth Mental Health
When a child faces a mental health crisis, the current system offers only two...

Integrative cfDNA profiling from low-pass whole-genome sequencing enables tissue-of-origin prediction in cancer
A new machine learning model can pinpoint the origin of mysterious cancers from simple...

Epic Crowds Out Health Tech Startups
When the dominant electronic health record vendor decides to build its own clinical AI,...

AI Predicts Heart Failure From Routine ECGs
An AI model can spot heart failure risk day-by-day using standard electrocardiograms, but its...
