The UK minister responsible for health innovation has told MPs that public mistrust of Palantir is making patients less willing to hand their medical records to the NHS, and that the number of people formally opting out of data sharing has risen by rou…
Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than hum…
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an int…
Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart ring maker had recently turned profitable. The Wall Street Journal told its readers the same. Bloomberg’s Subrat Patnaik led on a los…
The BeamO thermometer has a new AI feature that analyzes the device’s heart and lung recordings.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’…
A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Bus…
The creator of the Oura Ring is partnering with women’s health companies in the name of menopause.
Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years develop…
An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from…