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Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised

The Cambridge clinic has regulatory approval to triage, treat and discharge patients without a human in the loop. Now it wants to do the same for hip, knee and pelvic-health conditions. The unusual thing about Flok Health is not that an AI runs a physiotherapy appointment. It is that the NHS has signed off on […]

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Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika

Verily, the health and life sciences subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release up to 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California over two years. The proposal, submitted under the company’s Debug initiative, would deploy male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria into areas where […]

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Akeso’s lung cancer drug reduces death risk by 34%, marking the first Chinese drug at ASCO’s top stage in 61 years

Akeso, the Chinese biotechnology company whose drug ivonescimab was dubbed “biotech’s DeepSeek moment” last year, has reported phase three clinical trial results showing a 34% reduction in the risk of death for patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer. The data, filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday and selected for the American Society […]

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HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system through a simple HDMI setup. The tablet runs HeartFocus’s AI guidance software alongside the live ultrasound image, delivering real-time probe positioning instructions to help clinicians and trainees capture diagnostic-quality cardiac […]

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Oura’s Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and it arrives three days before a likely IPO filing

Oura has launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and, at 6.09mm wide and 2.29mm thick, is the smallest smart ring on the market. The ring weighs as little as 2 grams depending on size, down from the Ring 4’s 7.99mm width and 2.88mm thickness. Despite the shrinkage, […]

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Why healthcare’s AI future requires patient leadership

Artificial intelligence is entering healthcare at a pace that, according to Donna R. Cryer, risks outpacing the governance structures needed to support it responsibly. Cryer believes hospitals, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and digital health organizations are introducing AI systems into clinical and operational environments without sufficiently involving the people most affected by those decisions, which are the […]

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Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed

Paris-based Lucis, a preventive-health platform that pairs blood biomarker testing with an AI-driven companion app, has raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator and angel investors including Céline Lazorthes of Resilience, Manu Lecomte, and backers of the running-coach app Runna. The round arrives four months after the company’s $8.5m seed in […]

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The Apple Watch is 11 years old and losing momentum. Screenless rivals are winning the next phase.

The Apple Watch generated an estimated $100 billion in lifetime sales and transformed the smartwatch market. Eleven years after launch, innovation has slowed and the lineup is losing momentum. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple risks falling behind in the next phase of the industry it helped create. Consumer preferences are shifting away from screen-heavy […]

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Inside the quiet reinvention of the clinical judgment call

Neurovascular care remains one of the more complex and uncertain areas of modern medicine. Millions of people live with conditions such as intracranial aneurysms without symptoms, yet when an event occurs, the consequences are often catastrophic, carrying high mortality rates and a substantial risk of long-term neurological disability. For neurospecialists, one of the most critical […]

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This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched this week, Wove bills itself as the first mobile app that scans everyday garments for PFAS, microplastic shedding potential, […]

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