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Pro-life medical groups are urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to reexamine the FDA’s broad ...

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Patients express mixed feelings about AI in health care, favoring its use for documentation and administrative tasks while demanding transparency and safety standards.