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Charlotte Hu

Charlotte is a science, health and technology journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Vox, Scientific American, Popular Science, Business Insider, GenomeWeb, and more. She is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Northwestern University. Get in touch: [email protected].

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Tech

How tech like AI and wearables is helping physical therapists

A PT who works with NFL athletes shares her experience using various tools.

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Tech

How digital twins could change clinical trials

Digital twins can cut time and costs associated with running drug studies.

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Tech

Google announces open foundation models for health

Developers can customize or build on top of these pretrained, healthcare-specific models.

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Hospitals & Facilities

What can Yelp reviews reveal about healthcare organizations?

This alternative source of ratings can provide a more unfiltered view into patient dissatisfaction.

Sanofi pharmaceutical laboratory plant is in Neuville sur Saone in Rhone, France
Tech

How Sanofi uses digital twins in modern clinical trials

A look at the ways the drugmaker has applied digital twin technology in its clinical studies.

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Tech

Here’s what health tech experts are seeing for 2025

From alternative models of care to making sense of new data, here’s what experts are seeing for next year.

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Direct Care

Why is there a psychiatrist shortage?

It’s not just psychiatrists. We also need more psychologists, counselors, therapists, and support staff.

An rTMS session (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) carried out by a nurse.
Tech

Early neurotechnology trials have seen some success. Here are the details

How different brain stimulation devices are being tested as an alternative to the standard of care.

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Tech

Are we entering a neurotechnology renaissance in healthcare?

For Alzheimer’s, chronic pain, and depression, brain stimulation may help where drugs fail.

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Tech

OpenAI’s transcription tool Whisper makes up words patients have never said

The hallucination problem is especially worrisome as the tool becomes more widely used in medical centers, experts say.