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Screening
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Specialists guessing the gene behind an eye disease did far better with an AI looking too
Inherited retinal disease needs genetic testing that is slow and expensive, and specialists must first guess where to look. A trial of 300 patients gave half of them an AI second opinion.
Sep 16, 2026
Carrying one copy of the alpha-1 antitrypsin variant raised liver risk, not just two
Single-copy carriers are usually told they are unaffected. Following 22,537 genotyped veterans for a median of 15.9 years found risk rising step by step with each copy of the variant.
Sep 16, 2026
Ultrasound-guided stenting cut cardiac deaths in East Asian trials and not in anyone else's
Guidelines increasingly recommend imaging inside the artery while placing a stent. Pooling 17 trials and 14,033 patients found the benefit sat almost entirely in one part of the world.
Sep 16, 2026
How well the heart's upper chamber squeezed predicted deaths in amyloidosis; its size did not
Transthyretin amyloidosis stiffens the heart, and clinicians judge the upper chambers by how enlarged they look. Measuring 644 patients found the measurement everyone uses carried no signal.
Sep 16, 2026