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A $15 AI test, Project Glasswing, and how Doctronic pilot blindsided Utah medical board
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (178+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
Novartis CEO joins Anthropic's board
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (277+ words) Elaine Chen is a national biotech reporter at STAT. She co-writes The Readout newsletter and co-hosts The Readout Loud podcast. Previously, she previously covered cardiovascular and metabolic diseases for STAT. Prior to joining in 2022, she was at Bloomberg News, where…...
A new trick for old science, and biotech VCs' scrambled playbook
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (186+ words) Meghana Keshavan is a biotech correspondent at STAT and co-writer of The Readout newsletter. She joined STAT in 2016. She has written about the life sciences industry for more than a decade. Before that, she worked for news outlets like Thomson…...
AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (281+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
United Health Group is making a $3 billion bet on AI. What does it mean for patients?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (184+ words) From a scan of its job openings, it would be easy to mistake United Health Group for Silicon Valley's latest artificial intelligence juggernaut. Hundreds of postings seek applicants with expertise in data science and artificial intelligence, part of a sweeping…...
5 concerns raised during House hearing on health AI
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (248+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
Brain organoid pioneers fear inflated claims about biocomputing could backfire
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (522+ words) More and more, it looks like these miniature lab-grown brain models are able to do things that resemble the biological building blocks of learning and memory. That's what Smirnova and her colleagues reported earlier this year. It was a step…...
How AI is supercharging antibiotic discovery
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (420+ words) However, even in the mid-1900s, Fleming predicted antibiotics would one day become victims of their own success, and resistance to penicillin would occur if not used properly. He was right, and for decades, humanity has been grappling with the possibility that…...
Are AI scribes actually driving higher health care costs?
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (321+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
STAT reporter goes up against radiologists to spot deepfake X-rays
1+ week, 6+ day ago (217+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...