Healthcare & medicine
How AI is changing diagnosis, treatment and everyday care — what it gets right, and where humans still have to catch it.
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3 min readMixedAI phone receptionist at Yorkshire GP surgeries can't parse the local accentRotherham patients say the AI system "Emma" struggles with broad Yorkshire accents, leaving some unable to book appointments by phone at all.5 min readMixedChatbots are quietly grooming kids and diagnosing patients, with no one held responsibleTwo physician accounts show AI chatbots have become an unsupervised parallel health system — for grooming vulnerable teens and for do-it-yourself diagnosis — with accountability lagging far behind.3 min readMixedAI health-software seller Commure ends program paying people to refer its productsCommure shut down a referral-payment program for its clinic AI tools six days before a STAT investigation exposed how it worked.3 min readMixedMedicare's Temporary Bonus Payments Are Nudging Hospitals to Try AI DevicesA little-known Medicare incentive gives hospitals extra money to use new AI medical devices for a few years — before anyone knows if the tech actually saves money long-term.4 min readMixedScientists used AI to design new viruses that beat drug-resistant bacteriaStanford researchers had AI models invent 16 working bacteriophages from scratch - a scientific first that also reopens hard questions about biosecurity.3 min readMixedAI note-taking tools spread through hospitals and medical schools — rules haven't caught upA U.K. regulator is weighing whether AI "scribes" that draft clinical notes count as medical devices, while U.S. medical schools separately debate letting students use the same tools.