Health
AI in medicine, drug discovery, diagnostics, and brain-computer interfaces like implants
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a top oncologist and a leading tech investor says fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Not everyone is convinced, but even the sceptics are starting to budge.
AI reads mammograms for heart disease, not just breast cancer
A new study shows that the routine breast scans millions of women already get could double as a check for heart disease, the leading killer of women worldwide.
London surgeons used AI to remove a brain tumour, and their patient kept his sight
A 48-year-old man is recovering after a historic operation at a London NHS hospital where AI analysed live camera footage to flag anatomy surgeons had to avoid.
These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid
Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.
AI Won't Replace Radiologists, But Their Job Is Changing Fast
A bold 2016 prediction that computers would wipe out radiology within five years turned out to be wrong. What actually happened is more interesting.
This startup keeps human skin alive for weeks to train an AI on it
Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's partner and a former senior figure in tech philanthropy, has spent years building an AI startup that discovers skincare compounds using living skin tissue kept alive outside the body. He is only now talking about it.
England's NHS Shake-Up Would Scrap Elected Hospital Governors. Here's What That Means.
A new health plan for England, heading to Parliament this autumn, would remove the statutory governors who sit on hospital trust boards. Volunteers and former clinicians who hold NHS leaders to account say cutting the role is a serious mistake.
The NHS Region That Built Its Own Data Platform and Is Saying No to Palantir
Greater Manchester runs its own health data system and says it works better than the $400 million national deal. That claim is now shaping a decision the UK government must make by February.
Yorkshire Patients Say Their GP's AI Receptionist Cannot Understand Their Accent
A local health watchdog in Rotherham says the AI system answering calls at several GP surgeries struggles with the area's broad Yorkshire dialect, leaving patients unable to book appointments.
The AI scribe helping 2.7 million patient visits a week, and why its database matters as much as its model
Australian healthtech company Heidi built a clinical AI assistant that now spans 190 countries. Its CTO says the hard part was never the AI itself.
A Robot Lab Grows Human Tissue to Give AI the Data It Needs to Find Real Drugs
Vivodyne's warehouse-scale machines test drug candidates on lab-grown human organs, not mice. The startup says this is the missing ingredient that could make AI drug discovery actually work.
Indonesia Opens Its First University AI Centre to Tackle TB, Floods and Farming
A new lab in Yogyakarta is giving Indonesian researchers access to serious computing power for the first time, with three early projects targeting the country's most urgent health and safety problems.
Robots and AI Are Changing How Stroke Survivors Recover
From hospital gyms to living rooms, robotic rehab devices are helping stroke patients retrain their brains faster and more consistently than ever before.
AI Company Paid Ten People to Masturbate Every Day for a Month. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Joi AI ran a 28-day self-pleasure study with ten paid participants and an AI companion app. The headline numbers look striking. A neuroscientist says the methodology doesn't hold up.
AI-designed viruses are medicine's next hope, not its next threat
Two researchers push back on the UK science funding debate and on media coverage of AI-built bacteriophages, arguing the fear framing misses what the technology can actually do for patients.