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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...
Medicare Ends Easy Money for Breakthrough Devices
Federal regulators are closing the fast track to extra Medicare funding, forcing medical device...
Smart rings and LLMs predict depression symptoms
Giving consumer smart ring data to a raw language model to spot depression fails...
Hackers breach Amgen third-party cloud data
A major security breach at Amgen exposes the dangerous vulnerability of relying on third-party...
AI catches clinical trial reporting errors cheaply
A new automated tool exposes how easily human editors miss shifted endpoints in published...
The Health AI Brief — Week of August 3, 2026
Predicting Diabetes a Decade Before Diagnosis
Medicare’s New Chronic Care Model Cuts Payouts
Digital health companies are rushing toward a new Medicare experiment that pays them pennies...