A mysterious death at a Russian anti-plague institute is putting modern disease surveillance in the spotlight. AI, genomic sequencing, wastewater monitoring, and other technologies are incredibly powerful, but they cannot compensate for missing information.
Reports of a broken test tube and a laboratory worker’s death have raised fears of plague in Russia. Authorities have not confirmed the diagnosis.
Google’s AI-powered flu forecasting model finished first in a CDC evaluation, outperforming the agency’s own FluSight ensemble at predicting hospitalizations.
Microsoft Quine uses AI to help scientists narrow thousands of biological possibilities into experiments worth testing, including work involving pancreatic cancer.
AI coding tools may be making hospital bills more expensive without changing the care patients receive. A BCBSA analysis estimates increased coding complexity added $942 million in spending from 2023 through 2025.
The Levoit Eleva 300X is a new smart air purifier for bedrooms and home offices with sealed HEPA filtration, real-time particle sensing, and a main filter tested to last up to two years.
Google is moving Open Health Stack to the Linux Foundation, where the open source healthcare platform will be developed under vendor-neutral governance with support from a $3 million Google.org grant.