⚕️Going further: resources on AI in medicine

2025/26 Autumn Term

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The DS101A Team

You saw how ML models could cause issues in the field of medicine in the W07 class.

If you want to read more on the topic of AI in medicine (as a follow-up to the lab), have a look at:

Obermeyer Z, Powers B, Vogeli C, Mullainathan S. Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations. Science. 2019 Oct 25;366(6464):447-453. doi: 10.1126/science.aax2342. PMID: 31649194. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6h92v832
Straw I, Wu H. Investigating for bias in healthcare algorithms: a sex-stratified analysis of supervised machine learning models in liver disease prediction. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 2022;29:e100457. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2021-100457
Eric Reinhart. “What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms”, The Guardian, Nov 9th 2025
Hannah Kuchler and Melissa Heikkilä. “Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs?” , The Financial Times, Sep 10th 2025
Charlotte Blease. “The big idea: why we should embrace AI doctors”, The Guardian, Aug 31st 2025