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AI spots lung cancer earlier than radiologists
A massive screening study reveals that chest X-ray AI can flag lung tumors before...
The Opportunistic Screening Era
AI developers are shifting from specialized imaging to opportunistic screening, extracting systemic disease markers...
AI Toilet Cameras Target the Wearable Blindspot
Silicon Valley wants to monitor the one vital health metric your smartwatch cannot reach.
AI finds biased language in half of pregnancy records
A new AI analysis reveals that nearly half of all pregnancy records contain stigmatizing...
Predicting Diabetes a Decade Before Diagnosis
Predictive algorithms can now spot type 2 diabetes risk ten years in advance, but...
AI reads clinical notes to predict cancer survival
A patient's fate is often hidden in the messy paragraphs of their medical charts...
Can Voluntary Pledges Actually Kill the Clipboard?
A year into a massive push to digitize healthcare administration, the tension between voluntary...
Wrist trackers predict future disease and mortality
A single week of wrist-worn movement data can forecast hundreds of future health conditions...
The Hematology AI Report — July 2026
An interpretable artificial intelligence model for real-time leukemia screening via routine blood tests across...