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Samsung Electronics, Harvard Medical School to study monitoring side effects of obesity drugs with Galaxy Watch

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it will pursue a joint study with Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, to track physical changes in patients taking GLP-1 obesity drugs using the Galaxy Watch. The study will use the Galaxy Watch8’s BioActive Sensor and follow 100 adults starting weight-loss drug therapy. Researchers will compare a group using the watch for body composition and activity monitoring with a standard-treatment group, alongside DXA scans.

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Utah draws scrutiny with pilot allowing AI to renew some psychiatric prescriptions

Utah will start a one-year pilot this month in which an AI system renews prescriptions for some psychiatric drugs without a doctor visit. The program is limited to 15 low-risk maintenance medicines and stable patients with existing prescriptions, excluding recent medication changes and recent psychiatric hospitalisations. Users must verify identity and prescriptions, and clinicians review out-of-scope cases. Some psychiatrists warned a chatbot could miss clinical nuances.