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Simulating clinical trials before patients enroll
Pharma is moving from AI-driven drug discovery to AI-driven trial simulation to fix a...

Smartwatches fail to measure blood glucose levels
A rigorous new evaluation reveals that wrist-worn wearables capture no real blood glucose data,...

First Hospital Earns National AI Safety Certification
As federal regulators struggle to keep pace with the clinical AI boom, private oversight...

Artificial intelligence empowers full-stack histopathological diagnosis and prognosis of renal cell tumor: a multi-center study with external validation
A new AI model predicts kidney cancer survival better than the gold-standard human grading...

AI intake tools expand to 100 clinics
Deploying diagnostic AI to vulnerable populations is a high-stakes test of whether technology can...

Hybrid novice-AI system achieves expert-level performance in intraoperative ischemia detection
Pairing untrained staff with artificial intelligence could solve the specialist shortage in operating rooms.

The Dermatology AI Report — August 2026
Dermoscopy-Based AI Risk Scoring Enhanced Experienced Dermatologists’ Decision-Making: a Large Retrospective Reader Study

Pathos AI Bets Big on Clinical Rescue
A young startup is spending hundreds of millions to prove that artificial intelligence can...

AI tracks diseases using under-pillow sleep sensors
A new foundation model proves that simple heart and breathing signals recorded during sleep...
