The FDA creates new Digital Health unit to reimagine regulatory paths in the age of scalable, AI-enhanced innovation

— Med­i­cine Is Going Dig­i­tal. The FDA Is Rac­ing to Catch Up (Wired): “WHEN BAKUL PATEL start­ed as a pol­i­cy advi­sor in the US Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion in 2008, he could pret­ty much pin­point when a prod­uct was going to land in front of the review­ers in his divi­sion. Back when med­ical devices were…

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A new era of brain cartography, powered by neuroimaging and machine learning

Human brain mapped in unprece­dent­ed detail (Nature): “Think of a spin­ning globe and the patch­work of coun­tries it depicts: such maps help us to under­stand where we are, and that nations dif­fer from one anoth­er. Now, neu­ro­sci­en­tists have chart­ed an equiv­a­lent map of the brain’s out­er­most lay­er — the cere­bral cor­tex — sub­di­vid­ing each hemi­sphere’s…

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