Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare – Page 2 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

During the 2000s, the agency’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed treatments based on quibbles with their trial designs

NYT: People Turn to AI Chatbots When Doctors Are Too Busy

Posted on November 21, 2025November 19, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Consumers are beginning to use AI for more than just entertainment and trivia. Many patients are using AI chatbots for mental health counseling and to answer medical questions they are unable to get from their doctors.

Wednesday Links

Posted on November 19, 2025November 18, 2025 by John C. Goodman

A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into the body
There was much more inequality in medieval times than there is today.
Cochrane on rent control.

Tuesday Links

Posted on November 18, 2025November 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman

Health insurance companies supporting politicians who hate health insurance companies.
Turns out, the US probably doesn’t have worse maternal mortality rates than other developed countries.
How Medicaid drug pricing works – with and without Trump.
AI’s favorite animal: the octopus.
Dershowitz: “Canada is now our enemy.”
Before 1962, developing a drug took about two years. Now it takes 12 to 14 years. Since 1975 real development costs have risen about 7.5% a year, roughly doubling every decade. Today, we estimate that bringing one successful drug to market costs about $9 billion on average. (This includes the cost of failed drugs and the time value of money.)