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DATE: October 8, 2026 at 11:43AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH

TITLE: STAT+: AI for breast cancer risk prediction goes DTC, regulatory cloud over Utah sandbox, and AI psychosis

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/breast-cancer-ai-goes-dtc-utah-sandbox-ai-psychosis-health-tech/?utm_campaign=rss

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Good morning health tech readers!

I had the pleasure of profiling Yasha Ektefaie, a fellow at the Broad Institute, who is newly announced STAT Wunderkind. Check out our annual list of promising young researchers here.

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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/breast-cancer-ai-goes-dtc-utah-sandbox-ai-psychosis-health-tech/?utm_campaign=rss

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DATE: October 8, 2026 at 07:53AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICES

TITLE: The Nobel boys club (again)

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/health-news-nobel-boys-club-again-2026-winners/?utm_campaign=rss

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here.

If you’re into online gambling, I think it’s worth mentioning that STAT predicted optogenetics’ success and a potential Nobel almost a decade ago. We said, “it hasn’t won a Nobel yet, but it’s been on some informal watchlists for a few years.” Skip Kalshi, subscribe to STAT, instead.

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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/health-news-nobel-boys-club-again-2026-winners/?utm_campaign=rss

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DATE: October 8, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH

TITLE: STAT+: Why this startup is taking its AI to predict breast cancer risk directly to patients

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/why-clairity-took-breast-cancer-risk-prediction-ai-directly-to-patients/?utm_campaign=rss

“Don’t wait. Choose to be informed.” 

That’s the call to action that patients will find on the site for digital health company Everlywell, which has offered at-home lab tests directly to consumers for a decade. But last week, it wasn’t marketing a prick to measure blood glucose or screen for celiac disease: It was launching one of a new generation of AI-based risk prediction algorithms for medical images. 

For $249 in cash, eligible patients can now come to the site, share a recent mammogram, and receive a prediction of their five-year breast cancer risk. It’s generated by an AI algorithm called Clairity Breast, which received de novo authorization from the Food and Drug Administration last May. 

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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/why-clairity-took-breast-cancer-risk-prediction-ai-directly-to-patients/?utm_campaign=rss

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DATE: October 7, 2026 at 09:38AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH

TITLE: STAT+: Why health AI pilots in Utah may be on a collision course with the FDA

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/07/utah-sandbox-health-ai-pilots-and-fda-regulations-ai-prognosis/?utm_campaign=rss

This is the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday. 

I have refused to read or watch “The Love Hypothesis” — I referred to it as the “Title IX movie” the other day when I forgot its name. But the clips are inescapable on my Instagram feed, and the science gaffes seem … real bad. Absolute butchering of how academia works? The impossible chemistry on the poster? Wearing miniskirts in the lab? Vortexing a test tube? *shudders*

Once again: I firmly believe STAT would allow me to consult on science-related elements on film sets. Offers for Hollywood gigs, health tech story tips, comments: [email protected]

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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/07/utah-sandbox-health-ai-pilots-and-fda-regulations-ai-prognosis/?utm_campaign=rss

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