May 13, 2026

Your doctor may have a new kind of assistant in the room — and it's not human. In this episode, Dr. Wu breaks down a May 2026 New York Times investigation by Simar Bajaj into the rapid rise of AI scribes, the software tools now recording and transcribing millions of doctor-patient conversations across the U.S. We...

May 13, 2026

Tick season is already breaking records — and the rules of the outdoors have quietly changed. In this episode, Dr. Wu digs into a May 2026 New York Times report by Maggie Astor revealing that four tick species are now spreading into regions where they've never been before, bringing Lyme disease, a mysterious red meat...

Apr 15, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Gloria Wu — lead author of the 2025 UCSF study "Chatbots and Diabetes: Is There Gender Bias?" — brings her research directly to you as both researcher and host. Published in the Journal of Patient Experience, the study tested four leading AI chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek...

Apr 14, 2026

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This episode examines Medvi, a telehealth startup founded by Matthew Gallagher that is projected to generate $1.8 billion in revenue in 2026 with just two employees — Gallagher and his brother Elliot — operating out of a house in Los Angeles. Drawing on...

Mar 5, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Gloria Wu discusses a study from the February 2026 issue of the Journal of Ophthalmology Retina that explores the relationship between long-term Metformin use and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in diabetic patients. The research found that patients who took Metformin for five or more...