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AI won’t enhance physician autonomy. It will further diminish it

AI is not the villain here; it is a mirror,” reflecting the diminishment of physician judgment, writes former surgeon Frances ...
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I was in my office when bullets hit the CDC. A year later, the agency remains under attack

It was briefly more dangerous to sit at a desk in Atlanta than to chase a hemorrhagic fever in the field,” writes Daniel ...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The National Institutes of Health plans to close the door on one of ...
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One year since Kennedy canceled mRNA vaccine projects, science shows how wrong he was

Coller is Bloomberg distinguished professor of RNA biology and therapeutics at Johns Hopkins University and a co-founder of the Alliance for mRNA Medicines. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug ...
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What my colleagues and I will look for as we assess U.S. measles elimination status

Noel T. Brewer and colleagues will soon decide whether the U.S. has maintained its elimination status. Here’s what they’re ...
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FDA approves Replimune melanoma drug previously rejected twice

The FDA approved Replimune’s treatment for advanced melanoma, dealing the company and patient advocates a big win after a ...
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Takeda’s narcolepsy drug approved by the FDA, seen as a boon for new class of treatments

The FDA approved a novel type of treatment for narcolepsy made by Takeda, backing a new drug class that scientists hope can ...
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Stop asking if AI is good for medicine

That’s the case with a new study in Nature Medicine titled, “Is AI actually improving healthcare?” Yes, it is. This much we ...
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FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, the first to use the technology

The FDA has approved Moderna’s influenza vaccine, the first licensed flu shot made using messenger RNA technology.
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Once again, child dies in gene-editing trial in China, rekindling debate on transparency and safety

With a second delayed report of a child's death in China, criticism is rising of a looser form of clinical trial. One expert: ...
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MRI is standard for diagnosing prostate cancer in most western countries. But most U.S. men don’t get them

Pre-biopsy MRI is standard outside the U.S., but the latest data show such scans were done in only about a third of U.S.
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Federal regulators invite industry, researchers, and lobbyists to closed-door meetings on clinical AI

Federal health officials invited tech companies and  lobbyists to closed-door meetings as they seek to boost adoption of ...