Nov 6th, 2025

Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General on Using AI to Detect Cancer

Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal, Former US Assistant Surgeon General and Visiting Professor with the MIT Media Lab, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the impact of the government shutdown on the American health care system, how US health policy has evolved over the last several decades, and her work using early AI and technology to advance early breast cancer detection. She speaks with Bailey Lipschultz and Norah Mulinda.