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FDA Panel Backs Grail Cancer Blood Test
A landmark regulatory nod for multi-cancer blood tests exposes a deep rift between detecting...
AI tool increases nurse skin cancer detection
Deploying real-time AI decision support in nurse-led clinics significantly boosts skin cancer detection rates...
Small businesses bypass traditional health insurance
A massive capital injection for an AI-native benefits platform signals that employers are desperate...
Cognitive tests beat expensive scans in Alzheimer’s AI
Clinicians can skip expensive, invasive scans and still predict Alzheimer's progression with high accuracy...
Institutionalizing Virtual Therapy: The UHS-Talkspace Deal
Universal Health Services is betting $835 million that virtual therapy can solve the costly...
An auditable multimodal agentic system for sequential decision-making across the acute stroke pathway
An agentic AI system has outperformed human neurologists in making rapid, complex treatment decisions...
AI Enzyme Discoveries Face Real World Disputes
An AI agent's first biological discovery has immediately collided with a human authorship dispute,...
AI predicts sudden cardiac death using scar patterns
Relying on simple heart pump measurements misses the chaotic scar tissue patterns that actually...
Telehealth GLP-1 Prescriptions Bypass Basic Clinical Safety
Getting a powerful metabolic drug online has become as easy as ordering takeout, but...