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Teens are treating AI chatbots as therapists
When vulnerable teenagers turn to algorithms for mental health support in secret, the line...
AI detects surgical wound infections from photos
Automating postoperative wound checks could save clinic hours, but a new trial reveals the...
Robots are taking over the wet lab
AI has mastered digital data, but biology's real bottleneck is the physical world where...
External validation of AI assisted colposcopy using WHO dataset for cervical precancer and cancer detection
An independent validation of an AI colposcopy tool shows it closes the expertise gap...
AI Targets the Nursing Documentation Crisis
Hospitals are rushing to deploy ambient AI for nurses, but translating spoken words into...
AI sepsis models beat traditional clinical tools
A massive meta-analysis reveals that while machine learning algorithms technically outperform traditional sepsis screening,...
The Dangerous Myth of Unbiased Healthcare AI
Scrubbing demographic data from clinical algorithms does not make them fair; it makes them...
AI fails a simple medical test trick
A simple change to multiple-choice questions reveals that medical AI models may rely on...
AI Will Make Healthcare More Expensive First
The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine comes with a hidden tax: a short-term...