FDA Clears Philips AI Ultrasound Software
July 18, 2026Automating the routine mechanics of ultrasound exams is no longer a luxury; it is becoming a survival strategy for short-staffed clinics.
AI predicts late breast cancer recurrence risk
July 18, 2026A new multimodal AI model helps solve the agonizing clinical dilemma of whether breast cancer survivors should endure five extra years of hormone therapy.
AI Medicare Denials Are Here to Stay
July 18, 2026A Senate vote keeping an AI-driven Medicare pilot alive reveals a dangerous shift toward automated care denials.
Grading the Algorithms That Guide Bedside Medicine
July 17, 2026Clinical calculators dictate life-or-death medical decisions every day, but doctors have had no objective way to know which algorithms are actually safe to trust.
MedSafe-Dx (v0): A Safety-Focused Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support
July 17, 2026A new benchmark reveals that today's best artificial intelligence models only look safe in the clinic because they constantly cry wolf.
Eli Lilly Bets on Oura Rings
July 17, 2026Pharmaceutical giants are realizing that selling a weight-loss drug is only half the battle.
AI detects abnormal child growth years earlier
July 17, 2026A new algorithm spots rare growth disorders years before traditional clinical methods, shifting the focus of pediatric screening from reactive tracking to active prediction.
AI Drug Discovery Targets the Factory Floor
July 17, 2026A new joint venture is shifting AI's role from designing molecules to actually building them at scale.
AI synthetic patients successfully replace real trial controls
July 17, 2026A new study shows AI-generated synthetic patients can replicate cancer trial results, potentially shrinking the need for human control groups.