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RFK Jr wants US health data pooled and searched by AI

RFK Jr wants US health data pooled and searched by AI

Robert F Kennedy Jr used a Maha Institute event on Monday to call for medical and lifestyle data to be connected and shared with government and independent researchers, so that AI could search it for links between vaccines and conditions including autism and mortality.

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Kennedy pushes linked US health records and AI analysis at Maha Institute event

Kennedy pushes linked US health records and AI analysis at Maha Institute event

Robert F Kennedy Jr used a Monday event hosted by the Maha Institute to call for US medical and lifestyle data to be linked, shared with government and outside researchers, and searched by AI, including for possible vaccine links to autism and mortality, according to The Guardian.

Health30 September 20265 min read
Cancer infections, breath, AI shame: three September studies on health and the body

Cancer infections, breath, AI shame: three September studies on health and the body

A study published on 29 September finds that one in eight cancers worldwide is caused by infections, with 2.3 million new cases in 2024. Separately, a Northwestern experiment published the same day measured a 41-millisecond response-speed gap between exhaling and inhaling.

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Infection study and breathing research sharpen the wearable health case

Infection study and breathing research sharpen the wearable health case

A paper published on 29 September in The Lancet Oncology attributes 2.3 million new cancer cases in 2024, 12 per cent of the global total, to infections. A Northwestern University study published the same day found response times are 41 milliseconds faster on an exhalation than on an inhalation.

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Meta Hires MongoDB CEO to Lead New Enterprise Platform, Health Tech Stays Off the Brief

Meta launched the Meta Enterprise Platform on 28 September and named outgoing MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it, the company's biggest push yet to sell its AI stack to businesses. Health insurers are not named in the announcement.

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Infection study reframes cancer risk as wearable makers chase digital health funding

Infections caused an estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, 12 per cent of the global total, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet Oncology by researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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Infection-linked cancers hit 2.3 million cases as wearable research reframes health data

Infections caused an estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, about one in eight of all new diagnoses, according to a study published on 29 September in The Lancet Oncology by researchers at the World Health Organization's cancer agency.

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Nvidia's Agent Safety Platform Counts 100 Backers as Health Tech Weighs AI Rollout

Nvidia launched a platform on 28 September that it says can quarantine out-of-control AI agents in "milliseconds", with 100 organisations from its ecosystem signed on, according to ServeTheHome. The safety pitch lands as insurers and health technology vendors put agents into production.

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Infection study, breath timing and AI shame: what this week's health research actually shows

Two new studies published on 29 September reach very different conclusions about the human body and the tools we use to measure it. A third finds that most communication scholars already use generative AI at work, even though they consider it inappropriate.

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Infection study puts 2.3 million cancers on pathogens, with H. pylori and HPV leading

Infections caused an estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, or 12 per cent of all new diagnoses, according to a study published on Monday in The Lancet Oncology by researchers at the World Health Organization's cancer agency.

Health29 September 20267 min read
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Nvidia's agent safety platform launches as insurers weigh AI that can act on its own

Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform on 28 September. The hardware and software stack can quarantine misbehaving AI agents within milliseconds, just as insurers push agents deeper into claims, underwriting and administration.

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Infection study and respiration research dominate a week of health science

Infections caused an estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, 12 per cent of the global total, according to a Lancet Oncology paper published on 28 September and reported by CBC News on 29 September.

Health29 September 20263 min read