This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise reports in from a heatwave in the French Alps while George braces for a Sydney winter — before the pair work through five stories on a single throughline: AI adoption by clinicians and patients is racing ahead of the institutions meant to govern it.

They discuss why more than half of UK GPs are now using generative AI in clinical practice, how an AI system analysing a routine ECG helped save a patient's life, the emergence of agentic AI capable of managing clinical workflows, a robotic platform accelerating cancer drug discovery, and an Australian-developed wearable "stethoscope sticker" designed to continuously monitor heart and lung sounds.

Resources:

Half of UK GPs Now Use AI Blease et al Link

AI Flagged a Failing Heart Hartman et al Nature Link

Agentic AI Comes to Medicine Topol, Ground Truths Link

AIME, Lievin et al Nature Link

MIRA, Ferber et al Nature Link

UpDoc FDA-clearance announcement — PRNewswire Link

Shrestha, Innolitics Link

Persistern Cells, Sun et al., ScienceAdvances Link

The "Stethoscope Sticker" Dang et al., Link

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