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🧠 Depression: Can a test pick the right antidepressant?

Early studies may flag who responds. Choosing the drug is the harder test.

Alison Doughty

Biotech

🐷 Kidney failure: The pig organ that bought 271 days

Sep 29, 2026

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🐷 Kidney failure: The pig organ that bought 271 days

How a gene-edited pig kidney became the first bridge to a human transplant.

Alison Doughty

MedTech

🔊 The scalpel replaced by sound, from tremors to tumors

Sep 22, 2026

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6 min read

🔊 The scalpel replaced by sound, from tremors to tumors

Hundreds of converging beams do the work a blade used to do.

Alison Doughty

Digital Health

⌚ AFib is silent. Your smartwatch isn’t.

Sep 15, 2026

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⌚ AFib is silent. Your smartwatch isn’t.

A stroke waiting to happen, caught weeks before any doctor would have looked.

Alison Doughty

AI in Health

💔 She lost her nephew to sepsis. Then she built the fix.

Sep 8, 2026

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6 min read

💔 She lost her nephew to sepsis. Then she built the fix.

How an AI alarm got FDA clearance, and cut sepsis deaths by 18%

Alison Doughty

Biotech

🧬 Cancer vaccines: From proof of concept to proof it works

Sep 1, 2026

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7 min read

🧬 Cancer vaccines: From proof of concept to proof it works

At 80 and five years cancer-free, one patient's trial just proved it.

Alison Doughty

MedTech

🩺 Checkups: When a robot takes your vitals first

Aug 25, 2026

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6 min read

🩺 Checkups: When a robot takes your vitals first

It collects the data. Your doctor still decides what it means.

Alison Doughty

Digital Health

🫀 Irregular heartbeat: Doctors test the fix on a virtual heart first

Aug 18, 2026

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6 min read

🫀 Irregular heartbeat: Doctors test the fix on a virtual heart first

Digital twins now guide the procedure, train researchers, and power new medical devices

Alison Doughty

Digital Health

🎵 Dementia: Why music succeeds where memory fails

Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

🎵 Dementia: Why music succeeds where memory fails

Now virtual reality is trying to replicate what a familiar song already does.

Alison Doughty

Biotech

🧪 Lupus: hope for drug-free remission through CAR-T

Aug 4, 2026

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6 min read

🧪 Lupus: hope for drug-free remission through CAR-T

Early trials suggest engineered immune cells may induce prolonged, drug-free remission in severe autoimmune disease

Alison Doughty

Diagnostics

🔬 Early diagnosis: how tech is finding disease before symptoms appear

Jul 28, 2026

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7 min read

🔬 Early diagnosis: how tech is finding disease before symptoms appear

AI, blood tests and genome sequencing are catching heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's early

Alison Doughty

Digital Health

👂 A landmark new gene therapy for hearing loss

Jul 21, 2026

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6 min read

👂 A landmark new gene therapy for hearing loss

Plus next-gen cochlear implants and AI-enabled hearing aids

Alison Doughty

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🧠 Depression: Can a test pick the right antidepressant?

🐷 Kidney failure: The pig organ that bought 271 days

🔊 The scalpel replaced by sound, from tremors to tumors

⌚ AFib is silent. Your smartwatch isn’t.

💔 She lost her nephew to sepsis. Then she built the fix.

🧬 Cancer vaccines: From proof of concept to proof it works

🩺 Checkups: When a robot takes your vitals first

🫀 Irregular heartbeat: Doctors test the fix on a virtual heart first

🎵 Dementia: Why music succeeds where memory fails

🧪 Lupus: hope for drug-free remission through CAR-T

🔬 Early diagnosis: how tech is finding disease before symptoms appear

👂 A landmark new gene therapy for hearing loss

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