Is explainability necessary for using AI in medicine? I argue that without understanding what happens in the opaque reasoning process, interpretable AI is impractical in many facets of healthcare without human redundancy.
In the United States, 6 million people take insulin to control their type 2 diabetes. In recent years, the high price of insulin has been widely covered in the media. Disturbing stories of insulin rationing and patient deaths have been widely reported. A Yale study from 2018 found that 1 in 4 patients with diabetes were cutting back on insulin… Read more »
There isn’t enough Ozempic for everyone who wants it. People with health conditions like type 2 diabetes and severe obesity should get it before people who hope to lose a few pounds. As the new ‘miracle drug’ for weight loss, Ozempic is one of the most popular new drugs in America. This has come mostly… Read more »
Ozempic is suddenly a household brand name, akin to Aleve, Advil, or Nyquil. Many people are calling Ozempic, and other drugs like it, “miracle drugs.” Ozempic and Mounjaro are part of a class of drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s for short). Ozempic was approved by the F.D.A. in 2017, while Mounjaro, Ozempic’s primary competitor, was approved in 2022. Both were approved in the U.S. by the F.D.A. to help lower blood sugar. Soon after the drugs… Read more »