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Nurse-led heart failure care cut deaths by 22% across 22 centers in India
Heart failure care in low-resource settings depends on specialists who are scarce and appointments patients cannot reach. A cluster-randomized trial of 1,507 adults moved the work to nurses and phones.
Sep 8, 2026
Turning on glucose monitor alarms helped hospital patients; making them predictive added nothing
Continuous glucose monitors are moving into hospital wards, with no agreement on whether their alarms should be switched on. Randomizing 533 inpatients tested the alarms rather than the sensor.
Sep 8, 2026
A second AI-guided look at the right colon found precancerous growths in 8.5% more patients
The right side of the colon is where colonoscopy misses the most, and where cancers are hardest to catch. A randomized trial of 606 patients added one AI-assisted second pass and lifted the detection rate from 27.9% to 36.4%.
Aug 31, 2026
Digital nudges lifted statin refills from 12% to 14%, and a second nudge worked as well as the first
Health systems send reminders constantly and rarely test them. A JAMA trial randomized 20,604 patients who had stopped refilling statins, then re-randomized everyone who ignored the first message, and found repeating beat switching channel.
Aug 31, 2026