U.S. federal law is still lacking where AI is concerned, but California’s attorney general issued a bulletin that elevates the legal hazards of AI in medical use. The bulletin says that AI tools may not supplant a physician’s decision-making, a provision that would seem to render some FDA-cleared products illegal there.
C the Signs Ltd. recently received a capital injection of $8 million from Khosla Ventures to expand its AI-powered cancer prediction platform to the U.S. market.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aclarion, Akura Medical, Ambry Genetics, Avantik, Cardio Diagnostics , Catheter Precision, Movano, Pathmaker Neurosystems, Neuroone, Swing Therapeutics, Tempus AI, Theranica.
New hires and promotions in the med-tech industry, including: Airs Medical, Artedrone, Bio-Techne, Cytovale, FDA, Get Well, Iantrek, Medrhythms, Pulse Biosciences, Trisalus Life Sciences.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Femasys, Gyder, Rapidai.
Curently the only available blood test to tell which women are at risk of postpartum depression (PPD) is the one that confirms their pregnancy – and a one in seven chance of developing the condition which can have long-term implications for both mother and child. Research out of the University of Virginia and Weill Cornell Medicine could soon change that by identifying biomarkers in the third trimester of pregnancy that indicate which women have the greatest risk of developing PPD.
Whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) advances in his quest to become the top health care voice in the Trump administration could come down to one vote – that of Sen. Bill Cassidy. The Louisiana doctor is one of 14 Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is scheduled to vote Feb. 4 on whether to send Kennedy’s nomination as Health and Human Services secretary to the full Senate for confirmation. If all 13 Democrats on the committee vote against it, one no vote from a Republican could stop the process.