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AI's integration in medical education presents challenges and opportunities, with findings advocating for curricula that promote active engagement and literacy.

Ambient intelligent scribes are gaining momentum in clinics, but lack of regulation and inaccuracies raise concerns.

MIRA, an autonomous AI agent tested in a sandboxed electronic health record, diagnosed 574 real emergency department cases with 88.9% accuracy and outperformed physicians in a matched 311-case comparison. The system ordered tests, generated medication plans, and made admission decisions in simulation, but the authors stress that prospective validation, governance, and physician oversight are still essential.

Panelists at HLTH Europe 2026 warned that clinicians and patients are increasingly deferring to algorithmic outputs over independent judgment.

From cardiac misdiagnosis to an 8-year wait for endometriosis, experts at HLTH Europe lay out how AI and multimodal data can start closing the gender health gap.

Insilico Medicine will attend the BIO 2026 International Convention, held from June 22 to 25 at the San Diego Convention Center.

People are increasingly turning to AI for mental health support—but its design is “antithetical” to mental health care, experts say

A common misperception exists that electrocardiograms (ECGs) simply contain data about heart activity.

JMIR Publications released two feature stories in its News and Perspectives section. Shalini Kathuria Narang's "Can Humanlike Reasoning Be Replicated in Large Language Models for Clinical Decision-Making?" and Sara Novak's "How Health Care Workers Can Manage Digital Fatigue" offer complementary looks into the capabilities of artificial intelligence in diagnostics, and the real-world exhaustion faced by medical professionals managing digital systems.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used for more than three decades to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

A new Penn-led randomized controlled trial has found that AI-powered chatbots can make vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to say they will immunize their children against human papillomavirus (HPV), but no more than standard written public health materials.

World Cup crowds spark outbreak tracking as AI tensions rise and ancient Rome’s roads get a stunning reboot

Apple's partnership with Google could supercharge its own health suite and wearable. Here's how.

Samsung is expected to launch its new Galaxy Watch 9 next month and, ahead of that, the Samsung Health app is getting a big redesign with lots of AI. more…

THURSDAY, June 4, 2026 — Nearly 1 in 5 young people in America turn to AI chatbots for mental health advice — and most aren't telling anyone.A new nationwide study finds 19.2% of adolescents ages 12 to 21 have used AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini...

The global health care sector is under increasing strain.  Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…

This scoping review of 70 studies found that AI is used mainly to detect and measure health-related stigma, rather than to reduce it. Evidence that AI can reduce stigma remains early, limited, and concentrated in mental health conversational-agent studies.

A research team led by Columbia University has developed an open-source framework designed to streamline and accelerate artificial intelligence research using health data, addressing longstanding challenges in data standardization, reproducibility, and collaboration across institutions.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots respond to everyday health-related questions from general users with nearly 76% accuracy, which raises concerns about their trustworthiness in real-world client-facing applications, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

As more people turn to artificial intelligence chatbots for emotional and mental health support, a new study from Drexel University suggests that most users see these tools as supplements to - not substitutes for - human therapy.

Google’s reputation would have you thinking it’s incapable of launching a quality first-gen product, but the Fitbit Air proves otherwise. Effectively billed as a Whoop competitor for the masses, the Air is a display-less fitness band that is capable of providing you with baseline health data for just $100. If you’re one of the many, many people feeling overwhelmed by the amount of screens in your life, disconnecting with a band as simple as the Air might be just what the doctor ordered. more…

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

Besides the new mobile app fully rolling out today, Google Health is joining the Google AI Pro subscription. more…

Digital technologies increasingly shape health by mediating how social, political, commercial, and economic conditions affect people’s lives. This Perspective calls for global collaboration to ensure digital transformation promotes health equity rather than reinforcing existing inequities.

For the better part of a year, we’ve been hearing about Project Mulberry: Apple’s AI-powered health coach. Back in February, it was reported that these efforts had been scaled back. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the features should still be on track for iOS 27, though they may not release until later in the cycle. On the other hand, Apple is apparently going to greatly improve Apple Watch heart-rate tracking with watchOS 27, which could tie in nicely with Apple’s eventual health coach. more…

A new AI-driven framework enables highly accurate prediction of RNA splicing and isoform usage for applications across splicing pathogenic variant interpretation and precision medicine research.  The post HELIX AI Model Accurately Predicts RNA Splicing, Unlocks Precision Medicine appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

AI-enabled research tools can accelerate health research, but their data-science roots may clash with epidemiological workflows built around prespecified designs, causal reasoning, bias control, and reproducibility. The article argues that researchers should integrate AI cautiously, using clear workflow boundaries, peer review of AI outputs, and sustained human accountability.

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AI over docs: AI-generated after-visit summaries are better than physician-generated ones, physician graders say. Next, patients will judge.

Cancer patients who interact with an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar doctor before they meet their real-life consultant feel more knowledgeable and less stressed, according to research presented at the Congress of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 2026)

As more people turn to chatbots for medical guidance, the technology is revealing both its promise and its risks

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Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and electrocardiograms to identify

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and electrocardiograms to identify individuals in the general population at elevated risk for sudden cardiac arrest - a condition that causes more than 400,000 U.S. deaths annually and has a survival rate of only 10%.

Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin have discovered that teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human intuition and reasoning significantly improves their ability to provide accurate medical care-seeking advice.

Google trusts Gemini to coach your health; Whoop is putting a licensed doctor on your screen. Here's what each approach actually means for your wallet and your wellbeing.

A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations that do not exist in scientific databases. The results highlight an alarming trend in academic publishing as the use of AI grows.

Google has announced the Google Health Coach, a Gemini-powered personal wellness assistant baked into a rebranded Google Health app. Here's everything you need to know about pricing, features, and availability.

After months of Public Preview testing, Google is replacing the Fitbit app and launching “Google Health.” It’s meant to bring “together the best of Fitbit’s pioneering spirit with the helpfulness of Google.” more…

Pennsylvania sues Character AI over its chatbot allegedly impersonating a psychiatrist, raising concerns about AI in healthcare and unlicensed medical advice under the Medical Practice Act.

JMIR Publications today released a timely new feature in its News and Perspectives section, providing one of the first comprehensive overviews of the rapidly expanding consumer health AI landscape.

Researchers used AI to analyze whole-body MRI scans from more than 66,000 participants to create the most detailed reference map to date of how fat and muscle are distributed in the human body across age, sex and height.

AI has aced medical exams, but there's a wide gap between tests and the real world. A new study suggests the divide is closing. The post An AI Just Beat Doctors at Diagnosing ER Patients appeared first on SingularityHub.

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of caring for an aging population. AI developers are targeting functions that vary widely, from curing cancer and performing surgery to streamlining…

A survey of more than 600 Canadian physicians finds that virtually all have had to intervene to prevent harm after a patient followed misleading health information online.

An investigation found Kenya’s AI-driven health insurance system is overestimating poor households’ incomes, forcing many into higher premiums they cannot afford.

Flinders University experts are warning that artificial intelligence (AI) must be carefully evaluated and governed before it is adopted widely in healthcare, saying rapid advances do not automatically translate into safe use for patients.

AgentClinic is a multimodal benchmark that tests clinical AI agents in simulated, dialogue-driven diagnostic settings rather than static medical question-answer formats. The study found that model performance varied sharply by tool use, language, bias, image handling, and patient-agent interactions, highlighting the need for more realistic AI evaluation before clinical deployment.

JMIR Publications today featured two new stories in its News and Perspectives section, highlighting a shift toward proactive, tech-integrated health monitoring.

The Obesity Medicine Association’s interactive tool was designed to help clinicians practice real-world obesity-care discussions ‘grounded in science and compassion.’

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Psychiatric disorders affect millions worldwide, but their diagnosis still relies on clinical observation instead of standard biological tests.

A new type of chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms - and do so based on guidance that is both medically sound and easy to understand.

FRIDAY, April 24, 2026 — The eyes are the windows not only to the soul, but also to a person’s health, a new study says.Premature aging of the retina could be a red flag for major diseases like diabetes or heart disease, researchers recently rep...

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling through patient records, flagging people who may require certain support or treatments. They are also used to interpret medical exam results and X-rays. A…

APOLLO is a multimodal temporal foundation model trained on 25.2 billion medical events from 7.2 million patients across 33 years of Mass General Brigham records, integrating 28 medical modalities into unified “virtual patient representations.” Across 322 downstream tasks, the model showed strong performance in disease prediction, treatment-response stratification, hospital operations, and patient retrieval, supporting the idea of more computable, data-driven medicine.

The Keck School of Medicine of USC and Keck Medicine of USC have launched collaborations with Tempus AI, Inc., a technology company at the forefront of applying AI to precision medicine, to integrate clinical care, clinical trials and research through a unified framework.

Doctors remain among the most trusted professionals in society — but AI is entering the consultation room, often without patients' knowledge.

TUESDAY, April 21, 2026 — "Do I really need chemotherapy?" "Is this natural remedy safer?""Does eating sugar cause cancer?"As more people turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for quick answers to health questions like these, a new study finds the a...

Widespread inaccuracies in AI chatbot health responses pose public health risks, highlighting the urgent need for better oversight and cleaner training data.

Abi has had very mixed results when asking a chatbot for guidance about her health issues.

A biology-guided artificial intelligence model applied to routine pathology slides accurately predicted outcomes and response to immunotherapy in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026, held April 17-22.

Researchers analyzed more than 500,000 de-identified Microsoft Copilot health conversations from January 2026 and found that health information queries were most common, while nearly one in five conversations involved personal symptoms or condition-related concerns. They also found that personal health queries were more common on mobile and at night, while desktop use was more often tied to research, paperwork, and academic support, highlighting how people use AI differently across contexts.

AI is a great tool for small, well-defined tasks, but maintain a healthy skepticism and avoid falling down a rabbit hole.

Researchers audited five popular public-facing AI chatbots across 250 health prompts and found that 49.6% of responses were problematic, with especially weak performance on open-ended questions and in nutrition and athletic performance. The study also found poor citation quality, difficult readability, and very few refusals to answer, raising concerns about the reliability of chatbots for everyday health information.

Turns out a lot of people would rather ask an AI about their symptoms than pay for a doctor's visit. A new survey puts some striking numbers behind that trend.

Months after a lawsuit against a San Diego health system, another class action alleges two more California health systems used Abridge’s AI tool to record patient visits without consent.

WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2026 —For many patients with sickle cell disease, a trip to the emergency room has an unwanted side-effect: In their search for relief from agonizing pain, they are often dismissed as drug-seekers. A new study from the U...

A BMJ Open study found that five leading AI chatbots often returned flawed health advice, with open-ended questions triggering the worst answers and citation quality falling apart under scrutiny.

A study of nine AI chatbots found hallucination rates from 0% to 34%, with Grok 3 worst and Perplexity Research most reliable.

AI use in clinical care raises unresolved liability questions, with clinicians retaining responsibility as evolving technology and legal frameworks continue to blur accountability.

A team of Weill Cornell Medicine investigators is working to cross-train the next generation of cancer researchers in cancer biology and the use of artificial intelligence tools for research.

As the AI era becomes increasingly shaped by foundation models, the pharmaceutical industry is entering a new phase of opportunity for discovery, design, and decision-making driven by AI for science.

Meta’s new Muse Spark AI encourages users to upload health data but still produces unreliable and potentially harmful advice.

This year, executives from nearly every major health insurance company made the same declaration in calls with Wall Street analysts: Using artificial intelligence to make coverage decisions would help save them money.

AI-driven interventions reduce the odds of hospitalization within 7 days by 8% in patients with end-stage kidney disease receiving hemodialysis, according to a recent study.

The NR3C1 (nuclear receptor subfamily 3 group C member 1) gene encodes the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), a nuclear receptor vital for maintaining physiological homeostasis, and inhibition of NR3C1 could increase the sensitivity of cancer cells to standard chemotherapy, particularly in ovarian cancer.

Llama is out; Muse Spark is in. Meta has unveiled its rebooted AI efforts with a new model it calls Muse Spark. Unlike Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview announcement yesterday, Muse Spark is actually available publicly today. Meta is also taking on the top Gemini and ChatGPT models with a new Contemplating mode that it says will roll out gradually. more…

Google wants to help you find mental health support more easily

Modern AI models can create convincing descriptions of images that were never given to them — a phenomenon researchers call a "mirage."

TUESDAY, April 7, 2026 — The number of Americans who want artificial intelligence (AI) involved in their health care is declining, a new survey says.Only 42% are open to AI being used as part of their care, down from 52% in 2024, according to the p...

Graz University of Technology, the University of Graz and the Medical University of Graz have jointly developed an interactive system that automatically adapts evidence-based medical information to patients' prior knowledge and needs.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?  In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots.  There’s a clear demand…

Explore how AI is transforming health insurance in the US, raising legal and ethical questions about patient care and oversight.

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, would…

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Integrating LLMs in brain tumor care could enhance patient understanding, but requires strict oversight to manage risks and ensure reliable information.

While gastroenterology patients generally support AI as an assistive tool, they prioritize physician oversight and transparency.

TUESDAY, March 24, 2026 — Folks who rely on chatbots for their scientific and medical info, be forewarned — artificial intelligence (AI) gets a "D" when it’s asked to evaluate whether a claim is true or false, a new study says.ChatGPT’s accuracy in...

Upcoming spacewalks at the ISS focus on infrastructure upgrades, while AI and augmented reality research enhances medical care in microgravity environments.

A Stanford study finds AI chatbots sometimes enable violent or self-harm thoughts in rare cases, exposing gaps in crisis response and raising concerns about how safe these tools are for emotional support. The post AI mental health risks exposed as chatbots sometimes enable harm appeared first on Digital Trends.

Perplexity Health connects your lab results, prescriptions, and wearable data in one place, giving you health answers that are backed by real medical sources. The post Perplexity unveils Perplexity Health, an AI tool to transform your scattered medical data into health insights appeared first on Digital Trends.

Following yesterday’s Comet iOS browser release, Perplexity is back with another AI announcement: Perplexity Health. The new “suite of connectors” includes integration with Apple Health, Perplexity says. more…

It'll even analyze your lab results to deliver personalized recommendations. But here's what you need to know first.

Fitbit is adding medical record integration, smarter sleep tracking, and glucose insights, aiming to turn its app into a more personalized health companion with AI guidance based on real user data. The post Fitbit improves sleep tracking and adds an AI coach that uses your medical history appeared first on Digital Trends.