Tanya Kapoor

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Google’s Breast-Scan AI Can Match Radiologists, But Researchers Warn Not to Read Too Much Into That Yet

New Imperial College London and Google research shows an AI model matching or exceeding radiologists in detecting breast cancer, including in tie-breaking arbitration cases, but the researchers themselves, along with independent experts, are cautioning against reading the results as proof AI is ready to replace human screening.

September 17, 2026 · 4 min read

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AI-Designed Lung Drug Rentosertib Enters Phase III, a First for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Insilico Medicine has begun a Phase III trial of rentosertib, an AI-designed drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, marking the first AI-discovered therapy for the disease to reach late-stage testing.

September 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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Five States Now Bar AI Chatbots From Practicing Therapy, and More Are Writing the Rules

Illinois, Nevada, Rhode Island and Maine now ban AI chatbots from practicing therapy outright, while Utah, California and Colorado are instead forcing chatbots to disclose they're not human — a patchwork that's reshaping how AI mental-health apps operate state by state.

September 17, 2026 · 4 min read

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OpenEvidence Rolls Out a Family of Medical AI Models, Keeps Its Perfect-MedQA-Score Model Under Wraps

OpenEvidence, used daily by more than 40% of U.S. physicians, split its clinical AI chatbot into three named models for speed and depth while holding back a fourth, Darwin, which it says scored perfectly on the MedQA benchmark, citing dual-use safety risks.

September 16, 2026 · 4 min read

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FDA Lets Four AI Health Tools Skip Pre-Market Approval to Reach Medicare Patients First

The FDA's new TEMPO pilot lets four generative-AI health tools, from SonderMind, Limbic, Cadence and Dexcom, reach Medicare patients before they receive full marketing authorization, trading pre-market review for real-world outcomes data on chronic conditions like depression, hypertension and prediabetes.

September 16, 2026 · 4 min read

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AI-Powered Depression Screening Tool Outperforms Standard Questionnaire, Chinese Study Finds

A Zhengzhou Normal University study found that a ChatGPT-based depression screening tool, BDI-FS-GPT, achieved 89.3% sensitivity, outperforming the widely used PHQ-9 questionnaire, though researchers caution larger trials are still needed.

September 11, 2026 · 3 min read

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Mount Sinai Wires an AI Medical Search Engine Directly Into Its Hospital Records System

Mount Sinai has embedded OpenEvidence's AI clinical decision support tool directly into its Epic health record, letting physicians, nurses and pharmacists across seven hospitals query peer-reviewed medical evidence in natural language without leaving the patient chart.

September 11, 2026 · 3 min read

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AI Is Rewiring Outpatient Surgery: Cleveland Clinic Expands Enterprise-Wide Deployment as Investment Surges

A new market report details how Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic have expanded AI enterprise-wide across outpatient surgery — from predictive risk models to post-discharge monitoring — as investors pour hundreds of millions into surgical AI startups.

September 11, 2026 · 4 min read

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Samsung Reveals Two AI Models That Read Heartbeats and Sleep Straight From a Smartwatch, Without the Cloud

Samsung Research disclosed two new on-device AI foundation models, xMAE and HiMAE, that analyze wearable heart, sleep and activity biosignals locally on a smartwatch without cloud processing, though both remain research projects without a release date.

September 10, 2026 · 3 min read

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Johns Hopkins AI Blood Test Detects Liver Cancer Across Guatemala and Romania, Two Very Different Patient Populations

Johns Hopkins researchers reported July 31, 2026 that their AI-powered DELFI liquid biopsy blood test detected liver cancer consistently across 377 patients from Guatemala and Romania, two populations with very different disease pathways.

September 10, 2026 · 3 min read