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Alison Doughty
💻 Software as a medical device: When code becomes the cure

Feb 17, 2026

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12 min read

💻 Software as a medical device: When code becomes the cure

From stroke detection to cancer screening, SaMD is changing how we diagnose and treat disease

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🤕 Migraine tech that finally matches the complexity of the disease

Feb 10, 2026

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11 min read

🤕 Migraine tech that finally matches the complexity of the disease

New devices stop attacks without pills, apps predict episodes days early, and cluster headache gets breakthroughs

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
👁️ Sight restored: The healthtech bringing vision back

Feb 3, 2026

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11 min read

👁️ Sight restored: The healthtech bringing vision back

How AI, bionic implants, gene therapy, and stem cells are offering new hope for vision loss

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
😴 The deep sleep revolution

Jan 27, 2026

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12 min read

😴 The deep sleep revolution

From GLP-1s to smart rings, how innovation is transforming how we rest

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🏡 CES 2026: The health tech that's coming home

Jan 20, 2026

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12 min read

🏡 CES 2026: The health tech that's coming home

Forget the robots. This year's real winners fit in your medicine cabinet.

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
👥 How synthetic health data is unlocking medical discoveries

Jan 13, 2026

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10 min read

👥 How synthetic health data is unlocking medical discoveries

Artificially generated patient records are solving healthcare's data dilemma

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🤯 2025's weirdest health innovations (that somehow made sense)

Jan 6, 2026

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11 min read

🤯 2025's weirdest health innovations (that somehow made sense)

From brain-monitoring tattoos to toilet diagnostics, a roundup of the delightfully strange

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🎯 Your most-read healthcare stories of 2025

Dec 23, 2025

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7 min read

🎯 Your most-read healthcare stories of 2025

The breakthroughs, technologies, and transformations that drove the highest engagement this year

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
👨🏼‍⚕️ Should doctors trust an AI that can't explain itself?

Dec 16, 2025

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12 min read

👨🏼‍⚕️ Should doctors trust an AI that can't explain itself?

As healthcare AI explodes to a $500B+ market, the black box problem is becoming medicine's most urgent challenge

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🎁📚 The Healthy Innovations gift guide for book lovers

Dec 9, 2025

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11 min read

🎁📚 The Healthy Innovations gift guide for book lovers

My top recommendations across science, medicine and healthcare technology

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🦠 CRISPR-armed viruses: Precision weapons against superbugs

Dec 2, 2025

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11 min read

🦠 CRISPR-armed viruses: Precision weapons against superbugs

How engineered bacteriophages could rescue antibiotics from the brink

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🏥 8 real-world examples of AI transforming healthcare

Nov 25, 2025

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13 min read

🏥 8 real-world examples of AI transforming healthcare

From ERs to cancer screening, clinical AI has moved beyond hype into measurable impact

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
⏳ Beyond longevity: The push to make every extra year a healthy year

Nov 18, 2025

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12 min read

⏳ Beyond longevity: The push to make every extra year a healthy year

Science is focusing on the quality of our later years, not just the quantity

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🧬 Generative protein design: Medicine's new molecular architects

Nov 11, 2025

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12 min read

🧬 Generative protein design: Medicine's new molecular architects

How AI is creating therapeutic proteins that nature never imagined

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🎙️ Voice biomarkers: When medicine learns to listen

Nov 4, 2025

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10 min read

🎙️ Voice biomarkers: When medicine learns to listen

Why better health could be a phone call away

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
💊 AI-powered drug repurposing: The fast track to new cures

Oct 28, 2025

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12 min read

💊 AI-powered drug repurposing: The fast track to new cures

Why wait a decade to discover new drugs when thousands of proven molecules are already sitting in pharmaceutical freezers?

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
👨🏻 Closing the men's health gap with AI and precision medicine

Oct 21, 2025

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12 min read

👨🏻 Closing the men's health gap with AI and precision medicine

From digital clinics to personalized diagnostics, healthcare innovations that are finally meeting men where they are

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🦾 Meet the robotic exoskeletons restoring mobility

Oct 14, 2025

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12 min read

🦾 Meet the robotic exoskeletons restoring mobility

How wearable robots are transforming rehabilitation and restoring independence

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
👓 Smart glasses go to medical school

Oct 7, 2025

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12 min read

👓 Smart glasses go to medical school

How augmented reality eyewear is quietly transforming healthcare delivery

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
⌚ The wearable shift: Ecosystems over gadgets

Sep 30, 2025

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11 min read

⌚ The wearable shift: Ecosystems over gadgets

How integrated health platforms are transforming patient care behind the scenes

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🚁 Medical drone deliveries: From emergency supplies to life-saving medications

Sep 23, 2025

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11 min read

🚁 Medical drone deliveries: From emergency supplies to life-saving medications

When every minute matters, drones are rewriting the rules

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🔬 Parkinson’s breakthroughs: Clues, causes, and new hope

Sep 16, 2025

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11 min read

🔬 Parkinson’s breakthroughs: Clues, causes, and new hope

New discoveries are reshaping our understanding of PD and pointing to earlier, more effective care

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🦟 Chikungunya: How innovation is answering the global wake-up call

Sep 9, 2025

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11 min read

🦟 Chikungunya: How innovation is answering the global wake-up call

Bacteria-enhanced mosquitoes, AI outbreak prediction, and next-gen vaccines are racing to get ahead of this virus

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🦠 How AI is decoding the trillions of bacteria inside you

Sep 2, 2025

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11 min read

🦠 How AI is decoding the trillions of bacteria inside you

AI is cracking the code of your unique microbiome to predict disease and deliver truly personalized treatments

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
🧬 Can we reverse aging at the cellular level?

Aug 26, 2025

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13 min read

🧬 Can we reverse aging at the cellular level?

Explore how AI, senolytics, and epigenetic clocks are transforming longevity into medical reality

Alison Doughty
Alison Doughty
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