Medical Education Expansion: The Bahamas is in talks with the University of the West Indies to build a full medical school, aiming to attract local and international students and strengthen the country’s healthcare workforce. PFAS Cleanup Push: Environmental Clean Technologies submitted performance data to the US EPA for its Rapid Electrothermal Mineralisation (REM) approach, targeting safe destruction of PFAS and tracking fluorine conversion to calcium fluoride. Software Engineering Shift: Appsfactory says it’s breaking the “Scrum monopoly” with an AI Development Lifecycle that replaces sequential sprint workflows with agent-first, governed development. Biotech Regulatory Update: Unicycive Therapeutics received an FDA Complete Response Letter for its resubmitted oxylanthanum carbonate NDA, tied to third-party manufacturing deficiencies. Drug Trial Scrutiny: US lawmakers opened national security investigations into Merck and AbbVie over China clinical trials, focusing on sites in Xinjiang and military hospitals. AI in Healthcare Research: A European project reports using math + AI to flag medical anomalies from CT/MRI/OCTA images without sacrificing interpretability. Digital Identity Standards: Fime launched a mobile driving license certification scheme to help digital identity ecosystems scale with interoperability and compliance. Smart Cockpit Competition: A market snapshot shows smart-cockpit domain controllers and AR-HUD systems tightening into a “one leader, many challengers” supplier landscape.