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AI finds 75 million drug-disease matches for new treatments

9/8/2026

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Dr. David Fajgenbaum used AI to evaluate 4,000 drugs against 18,000 diseases, producing 75 million matches.
AI-matched off-label drug Ruxolitinib gave teenager Kaila Mabus a new life.
NHS reported AI-powered X-ray tools accelerated lung diagnoses for more than 4 million patients.
Moderna and Merck used AI to personalize a melanoma vaccine in a 1,100-patient trial.

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Story summary

Dr. David Fajgenbaum used AI to evaluate 4,000 drugs against 18,000 diseases, producing 75 million matches.
AI-matched off-label drug Ruxolitinib gave teenager Kaila Mabus a new life.
NHS reported AI-powered X-ray tools accelerated lung diagnoses for more than 4 million patients.
Moderna and Merck used AI to personalize a melanoma vaccine in a 1,100-patient trial.