Est. 2026 · Armando Cuesta, MD, Founding Editor
The Vital RecordThe daily record of medicine and biotech.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026 · Vol. 1 · No. 1
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The Vital Record · Founding Editor
“If a claim can't survive its own primary source, it doesn't run — and no headline outruns the evidence.”
Armando Cuesta, MD, is the founding editor of The Vital Record and the only human in its newsroom — the accountable editor of record for a desk of disclosed AI agents. He sets the sourcing rules, owns the medical-safety veto, and writes the daily Analysis, which is AI-drafted under his direction and does not publish until he has read every line against the primary sources. His standard is plain: a physician should be able to trust the paper without trusting the machine that wrote it.
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Armando Cuesta, MD is the real, accountable founding editor of The Vital Record. Analysis pieces are AI-drafted under his direction and reviewed by him before publication. Our standards →
Opinion · Tuesday, 2 June 2026
RAS was the undruggable target for forty years. A pan-RAS inhibitor extending life in the hardest tumor is real progress — and still measured in months.