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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH

TITLE: The fall of Roe dramatically changed abortion access. This researcher used Reddit to capture how

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/09/betsy-pleasants-stat-wunderkind-abortion-access-reddit-nlp/?utm_campaign=rss

Betsy Pleasants was studying one historic disruption to abortion access when a more seismic one emerged.

In spring 2022, as a graduate student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Pleasants was researching the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on abortion services when a leaked draft opinion indicated that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. The court finalized its decision that June, ending the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion and ushering in an era of rapid change and increased state restrictions.

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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

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.

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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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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