News You Can Use: End April 2026

April News You Can Use Your LDL Is a Horoscope, and Your Pancreas Isn't Lazy Topics include: AI turf wars with ChatGPT compete with "Open Evidence" for doctors’ attention; None of these AI tools are actually integrated with our clunky Electronic Health Records yet. Doctors aren't calculators: Obsessing over a single cholesterol reading is ridiculous. 20% of heart attack victims look perfectly healthy, and we’re ignoring better markers like Lp(a). Enough GLP-1 shaming: Gym bros whining about weight-loss drugs need to can the moral superiority; Meanwhile recent evidence suggests non-response in 10% is often genetic, not a character flaw. Hence we need precision medicine, not judgment yet we still treat everyone with the same blunt-force approach. The future is MCPs: AI connectors that let software send emails for you have been downloaded 97 million times; Just don't hand over the keys until we figure out who’s really in charge (spoiler: it's not the calculator).