FTC Sues Hims Over Patient Privacy Failures
July 29, 2026The federal lawsuit against Hims & Hers exposes the dangerous friction between rapid telehealth growth and basic consumer privacy.
AI combines scans to predict heart valve disease
July 29, 2026By fusing electrical and structural data, a new multimodal model flags hidden heart valve risks before symptoms appear.
AI passing medical exams cannot save patients
July 29, 2026Passing a multiple-choice medical exam does not make an AI safe to treat real patients.
AI spots lung cancer earlier than radiologists
July 29, 2026A massive screening study reveals that chest X-ray AI can flag lung tumors before human radiologists, but its real value lies in how we manage the noise it creates.
AI Toilet Cameras Target the Wearable Blindspot
July 29, 2026Silicon Valley wants to monitor the one vital health metric your smartwatch cannot reach.
AI finds biased language in half of pregnancy records
July 29, 2026A new AI analysis reveals that nearly half of all pregnancy records contain stigmatizing language, with Black and less-educated patients bearing the brunt of clinical bias.
Predicting Diabetes a Decade Before Diagnosis
July 28, 2026Predictive algorithms can now spot type 2 diabetes risk ten years in advance, but the real bottleneck is how healthcare systems will handle millions of newly flagged patients.
AI reads clinical notes to predict cancer survival
July 28, 2026A patient's fate is often hidden in the messy paragraphs of their medical charts rather than their official disease stage.
Can Voluntary Pledges Actually Kill the Clipboard?
July 28, 2026A year into a massive push to digitize healthcare administration, the tension between voluntary industry promises and hard regulatory mandates is reaching a tipping point.