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South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses.
Available data shows that only 2% of the state’s measles cases have resulted in hospitalizations. Some infectious disease experts fear significant underreporting.
Some doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.
Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.

For years, this man didn’t knew of the dangers that drinking energy drinks might cause. While doctors confronted to his extremely high blood pressure didn’t bother to ask.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/man-shocks-docto…

Hospitals Fighting Measles Confront a Challenge: Few Doctors Have Seen It Before - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/02/hospitals-fighting-measles-confront-a-challenge-few-doctors-have-seen-it-before/

Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
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How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

When I see The Pitt flashbacks to the mentor dying of COVID, I think about my Auntie Baby (RIP) in the Philippines dying of COVID in spring of 2020. She had the best care money could buy there (USA trained doctors and equipment courtesy of my wealthy cousin) but no anti-virals and no vaccines.

OpenEvidence, which is building "ChatGPT for doctors", raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/openevidence-chatg…

OpenEvidence, the 'ChatGPT for doctors,' doubles valuation to $12 billion
OpenEvidence, based in Massachusetts, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.

Why Doctors Are Raising Red Flags About Boba
https://scitechdaily.com/why-doctors-are-raising-red-flags-about-boba/

Doctors made a custom CRISPR therapy to treat an infant with a rare genetic disease
A baby, named KJ, was born with a deficiency in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1).
This deficiency means his liver couldn’t convert ammonia
– which is made naturally when the body breaks down proteins
– into urea, damaging his brain and liver.
Babies born with CPS1 deficiency often end up staying in the hospital until they’re eligible for a liver transplant.
They h…

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/uber

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm's doctors | TechCrunch
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.

Alarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.