Eric Topol

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The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversy - Ground Truths | Eric Topol

Health September 6, 2026

Why did a big clinical trial that tested an anti-inflammatory drug fail to reduce heart events? Why did another pivotal trial of lowering Lp(a) fail to reduce heart events? In this edition of GrouοΏ½...

Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks - Ground Truths | Eric Topol

Health July 13, 2026

This week Tony Wyss-Coray and I published an invited review paper in Nature Medicine entitled Biological Aging Clocks in Health and Disease. The concepts and content of the paper may be difficult to οΏ½...

A New Path to Preventing Cancer - Ground Truths | Eric Topol

Health June 14, 2026

In the journal Cell, a team of >80 researchers from 4 continents reported on the discovery of a 14-protein blood test which paved the way for predicting and preventing lung cancer more than 5 yearοΏ½...

The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation - Ground Truths | Eric Topol

Business May 4, 2026

In 2012, the era of deep learning AI got legs with the convolutional neural network (AlexNet) that won the ImageNet challenge. Those images were everyday objects, animals, and scenes, unrelated to heοΏ½...

Data Holds the Key in Slowing Age-Related Illnesses - WIRED

Health December 25, 2025

In 2026, we will see the beginning of precision medical forecasting. Just as there have been remarkable advances in weather forecasting with the use of large language models, so will there be for detοΏ½...