Daily briefing

One post every morning: what happened in AI and medicine the day before, written as straight news with every source linked.

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  Nov 9, 2026 Stopping statins after 70 meets noninferiority but adds 1 event per 40 patientsSaveShare
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  Nov 8, 2026 Stents or bypass for stable heart disease add no survival at 11 yearsSaveShare
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  Nov 7, 2026 U.S. measles cases pass 5,000, the most since 1991SaveShare
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  Nov 6, 2026 Smartwatch AI spots more hypertension than an office cuff checkSaveShare
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  Nov 5, 2026 Medicare cuts physician pay 2.31% for 2027, deeper than it proposedSaveShare
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  Nov 4, 2026 Asthma guideline ranks steroid rescue inhalers above albuterol aloneSaveShare
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  Nov 3, 2026 Child's measles death is New York's first in more than 30 yearsSaveShare
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  Nov 2, 2026 Flu admissions jump 27% in a week to the highest late-October rate since 2010SaveShare
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  Nov 1, 2026 Affordable Care Act premiums rise another 13% as sign-ups openSaveShare
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  Oct 31, 2026 AI chatbots recommend care costing 3 times what physicians orderSaveShare
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  Oct 30, 2026 AMA says doctors shouldn't be liable for AI errors they can't detectSaveShare
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  Oct 29, 2026 Kennedy lets doctors compound six unapproved peptides, including BPC-157SaveShare
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  Oct 28, 2026 Parents sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT tapered their daughter off a seizure drugSaveShare
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  Oct 27, 2026 Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot cuts service use, JAMA study findsSaveShare
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  Oct 26, 2026 Johns Hopkins Bayview says worker uploaded 3,182 patients' data to AI toolSaveShare
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  Oct 25, 2026 Ambient AI speeds chart closing up to 39% at Jefferson Health, study findsSaveShare
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  Oct 24, 2026 Wrong automated advice cuts clinicians' accuracy, meta-analysis findsSaveShare
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  Oct 23, 2026 Microsoft diagnostic AI beats generalist physicians on hard cases, study saysSaveShare
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  Oct 22, 2026 Epic lets its AI assistants reach into other companies' appsSaveShare
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  Oct 21, 2026 AI model estimates cancer patients' survival from a single face photoSaveShare
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  Oct 20, 2026 Doximity and OpenEvidence settle dueling lawsuits over physician AI toolsSaveShare
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  Oct 19, 2026 Medicare official says parts of AI prior-authorization pilot are not workingSaveShare
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  Oct 18, 2026 OpenAI says training model broke into government site for hospital-bed dataSaveShare
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  Oct 17, 2026 JAMA Network plans JAMA AI journal, with AI-assisted peer reviewSaveShare
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  Oct 16, 2026 JAMA study counts 271 million clinician queries to OpenEvidenceSaveShare
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  Oct 15, 2026 Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety; medical board group drafts guidance on unsupervised AI; UnitedHealth says AI speeds appeals; AI reads cervical slidesSaveShare
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  Oct 14, 2026 OpenEvidence joins Johns Hopkins on medical training; EHR vendors' AI disclosures fall short; Agilent buys Proscia; Suki raises $90 millionSaveShare
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  Oct 13, 2026 Epic pediatric sepsis alert misses most cases; FDA warns of Lumify ultrasound failures; Stryker puts $400 million into CMR; Google adds AI health trendsSaveShare
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  Oct 12, 2026 CMS chat room gave tech firms access to officials, report says; device makers seek wider RAPID path; FDA grants pacemaker identifier; GPT-5 misreads imagesSaveShare
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  Oct 11, 2026 Safety prompt cuts harmful AI choices in 19 of 20 models; Oracle breach tally nears 20 million; device coverage comments close Oct. 13; Mayo AI grades side effectsSaveShare
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  Oct 10, 2026 FDA clears Epic deterioration model; Bayer sells Blackford radiology AI; chest X-ray AI flags osteoporosis; Houston Methodist ties OR AI to more casesSaveShare
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  Oct 9, 2026 Google AI passes supervised clinic test in Lancet; Vanderbilt tallies chatbot psychosis; CMS proposes remote pathology review; UT System widens AbridgeSaveShare
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  Oct 8, 2026UK adopts all 44 health AI regulation proposals; Teladoc adds AI scribe for hospitals; AHRQ offers $7.95 million AI prize; Anthropic opens cyber models to hospitalsSaveShare
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  Oct 7, 2026Utah approves AI renewals of diabetes, heart drugs; Advocate patients link records to ChatGPT; lawmakers fight RPM limit; Novant shifts to virtual careSaveShare
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  Oct 6, 2026Utah lets AI write first acne prescriptions; CommonSpirit credits AI with $200 million; most pathology AI lacks public data; AI intake beats eye residentsSaveShare
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  Oct 5, 2026CPT panel adds AI codes, rejects three; Medicare contractors propose no coverage for AI brain MRI tools; review maps rural surgical telehealth; eye AI lifts referralsSaveShare
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  Oct 4, 2026FDA plans final AI device, surgical robot guidance; five systems hold off on Epic AI tools; Senate passes hospital cyber bill; clinicians favor AI discharge notesSaveShare
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  Oct 3, 2026Report says rogue AI agents probed Mayo Clinic, CDC sites; Epic flaws hid record access; Swiss radiology AI cuts turnaround; Trump renames AISaveShare
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  Oct 2, 2026Physician groups reject claim AI is better informed than doctors; FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic; Pennsylvania House passes health AI bill; Alabama law takes effectSaveShare
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  Oct 1, 2026Newsom signs two clinical AI bills, vetoes AI therapy limits; autonomous AI clears skin referrals; ARPA-H funds ICU digital twins; UVA cuts scribe hoursSaveShare
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  Sept 30, 2026Kennedy calls AI better informed than any doctor; McKinsey sees AI in up to 22% of outpatient claims; Oura postpones IPO; Penn Medicine adds OpenEvidenceSaveShare
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  Sept 29, 2026Colorado funds rural tele-ICU with $169.6 million; coding vendors dispute insurers on AI costs; AI score predicts heart failure deaths; robot data flags surgical skillSaveShare
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  Sept 28, 2026Oura IPO draws four times the orders; Senate panel advances Klomp; Sentara reads coronary plaque with AI; radiology groups build their own AISaveShare
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  Sept 27, 2026Lab says OpenAI agents probed Australian health data agency; AI answers ease prostate surgery anxiety; FDA sets robot autonomy workshop; Yale team opens eye-care modelsSaveShare
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  Sept 26, 2026FDA drafts rules for surgical robots; OpenEvidence valued at $15 billion; coding AI lifts Hartford primary care revenue 17%; infant insulin tool wins breakthrough statusSaveShare
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  Sept 25, 2026Blue Cross ties $942 million to hospital AI coding; Oz says AI will raise costs first; clinicians catch 16% of AI hallucinations; Cigna and OpenAI start with cancerSaveShare
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  Sept 24, 2026OpenAI agent breaches Australia's Medicare portal; Epic pauses development for security; nurses report AI surveillance; OpenEvidence goes free in 100 countriesSaveShare
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  Sept 23, 2026VA signs $775.72 million ambient AI contract; Heidi raises $340 million for agents; robotic thyroid ultrasound tested; AMA presses CMS on prior auth deadlineSaveShare
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  Sept 22, 2026AI flags esophageal cancer on plain CT; Rush hands chart abstraction to a vendor; AI firms sponsor MAHA Summit; Newsom vetoes prior authorization billSaveShare
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  Sept 21, 2026Alibaba releases free abdominal CT model that beat radiologists; chart wording sways triage models; Oura launches IPO; Heidi reports 2.8 million visits a weekSaveShare
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  Sept 20, 2026Allina physicians strike over pay and AI; UC San Diego finds AI portal drafts slow complex replies; physician pay outpaces productivity; CPT panel weighs AI codesSaveShare
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  Sept 19, 2026FDA keeps radiology AI under 510(k) review; telehealth coalition seeks federal licensure path; UW Health sorts 100 new AI features by risk; Angle Health raises $600 millionSaveShare
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  Sept 18, 2026Epic mortality score overstates death risk in outside test; California bill would bar AI-only therapy; Zocdoc opens booking to chatbots; court denies patients ambient AI audioSaveShare
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  Sept 17, 2026Klomp sets condition on WISeR expansion; Connecticut bars AI-only denials on state plans; Sword buys Headspace; payers covering 165 million pledge ACCESS payment modelSaveShare
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  Sept 16, 2026Diagnostic agent keeps 49.4% of cases at 98.9% accuracy; House hears Medicare pay bills; 22 states fund remote monitoring as CMS moves to bar vendor staffing; Abridge adds pre-bill reviewSaveShare
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  Sept 16, 2026Pinned. Physician in the Loop launches with a September 2026 baseline on AI in physician workSaveShare
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  Sept 15, 2026California awaits governor's action on AI practice bills; WISeR vendor under corrective plan; 72% of health systems report unsanctioned AI; Conifer cuts 1,037 billing jobsSaveShare

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