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How OpenAI plans to win over doctors, patients and hospitals

The AI juggernaut is all-in on the healthcare industry, launching three new products in the last six months. But it needs to make sure ChatGPT is accurate enough for the millions of people who already use it for health advice.

  • By Amy Feldman

Richard Scolyer – cancer pioneer and 2024 Australian of the Year – dies aged 59

Professor Richard Scolyer, the pathologist who volunteered to become patient zero in a world-first brain cancer treatment, has died. He was 59.

  • By Samuel Hussey
  • Head of News & Life

I’ve spent 20 years in healthcare. Here’s what I think of Australia’s peptide boom

Injectable peptides are booming across wellness and biohacking circles, but the science and regulatory oversight are struggling to keep pace, writes Dr Sophia Moscovis.

  • By Sophia Moscovis - Contributor
  • Contributor

World isn’t ready for another pandemic and ‘moving in the wrong direction,’ WHO report says

An outbreak of a deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship has heightened fears about another global pandemic—which experts say the world isn’t ready for.

  • By Mary Whitfill Roeloffs

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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Africa ‘extraordinary’ public health emergency

Officials suspect the disease has caused 80 deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far.

  • By Zachary Folk

Microsoft launches Co-Pilot feature that gives medical advice

The Copilot Health waitlist is available to join starting today.

  • By Martina Di Licosa

Endometriosis affects 1m+ Australians. Now there’s an AI platform targeting women’s health

Ovum, founded by Dr Ariella Heffernan-Mark, has raised $1.7 million in a pre-seed round to tackle the women’s health market – projected to be worth $121 billion by 2033. Globally, the gender health gap is valued at $1 trillion.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

How Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound may help treat other diseases: Here’s what to know

These drugs work to treat diabetes and weight loss by suppressing the appetite and lowering blood sugar and A1C—which may end up being an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, heart conditions, depression, and many other conditions.

  • By Arianna Johnson
  • Forbes Staff

Meet the new biotech billionaire putting pig hearts in humans

The planet’s latest billionaire is a helicopter-flying transgender woman who made a fortune saving her daughter’s life.

  • By Richard J. Chang

Biden tests positive for COVID-19, White House says

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the White House said, hours after he appeared at an event in Las Vegas.

  • By Sara Dorn
  • Forbes Staff
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