As of September 2026, the fight over whether federal action can preempt state AI safety laws remains unresolved: a bipartisan “Great American AI Act” preemption draft has stalled since June, Colorado ...

Five frontier-AI stories surfaced in two weeks in September 2026 — Gemini accessing outside systems, OpenAI’s chain-of-thought incidents, Anthropic’s bioweapons-misuse disruption, and a false ...

NIH funds individual research training primarily through the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program, established under Title I of the National Research Act of 1974 (Public ...

Before this regulation, each EU member state ran its own HTA process from scratch, and a sponsor could face the same clinical dossier questions asked in slightly different ways by Germany’s IQWiG, ...

The rotarod is one of the most-run motor assays in rodent neuroscience and one of the least standardised. Two labs can both write “accelerating rotarod, 4–40 rpm, latency to fall” in their methods and ...

The NEXUS Criteria are a five-item clinical decision rule used to determine which blunt-trauma patients can safely skip cervical-spine imaging entirely. They come out of the National Emergency ...

The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score is a bedside instrument that converts a patient’s admission physiology into a single number used to estimate risk of hospital ...

The Ottawa Ankle Rules are a clinical decision rule that tells an emergency clinician when an ankle or foot radiograph series is not needed after acute blunt injury. They are one of the most heavily ...

The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS) is a three-item bedside screen — facial droop, arm drift, and abnormal speech — designed to let a paramedic or EMT decide in under a minute whether a ...

FRAX converts age, sex, BMI and nine clinical risk factors — optionally plus femoral neck BMD — into 10-year probabilities of major osteoporotic and hip fracture. A reference on its inputs, its ...

The Apgar score is a five-component, 0–10 observational rating assigned to every newborn at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth. It is one of the oldest instruments still in routine clinical use, and ...

The Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) is a bedside aggregate scoring tool that turns five routinely recorded vital signs — systolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, and ...