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An AI foundation model extracted hidden physiological patterns from routine polysomnography and identified five patient groups with distinct long-term risks of mortality, cardiovascular disease, and neurological disorders. The approach outperformed apnea–hypopnea index severity categories for risk stratification and remained informative in an independent sleep cohort.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2026 — Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it was time to renew her coverage under Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid.Angelica...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2026 — AI-driven oxygen delivery can help hospitalized patients maintain better blood oxygen levels, potentially speeding their recovery, a new study says.Patients treated with AI-automated oxygen spent 85% of their time in the...

Authors argue that uncritical AI adoption in women’s health may encode reductive views of sex and gender, expand surveillance, and reproduce existing inequities. They call for greater scrutiny across the AI pipeline, community involvement, and structural change alongside carefully selected technologies.

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biotechnology company, today announced the publication of a collaborative study in the journal npj Precision Oncology.

Researchers have demonstrated AI tools could play an important part in the development of simpler, lower-cost technologies for monitoring foot health, particularly in settings where access to specialised equipment may be limited.

A novel AI model can use information collected during routine sleep studies to identify patients' long-term health risks, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.

A US health envoy's presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference featured an AI-generated map that mislabelled African countries, highlighting concerns over AI's role.

Researchers from RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled early warning system helped identify hospitalized patients at risk of rapid clinical decline sooner, contributing to fewer deaths among high-risk patients.

Fake AI doctors and AI-generated health influencers are flooding social media with false medical claims and dubious supplements, raising urgent concerns over consumer safety and online trust.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a method for systematically developing novel, complex combinations of probiotics and prebiotics to more effectively maintain gut health and treat various gastrointestinal diseases.

Immune dysregulation may contribute to depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and anxiety through chronic inflammation, altered neuroimmune signaling, genetic susceptibility, and stress-related epigenetic changes. Evidence also suggests that biologically defined patient subgroups may benefit from more precise, immune-informed approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Samsung’s AI Health Companion Samsung has begun deploying Health Assistant, a chatbot built into Samsung Health that tries

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and colleague at Clemson University have developed a framework to help hospitals integrate artificial intelligence to not just increase efficiency and cut costs but ensure high-quality patient care remains the top priority.

Samsung Health Assistant digs through data collected across your Galaxy devices and turns scattered sleep, activity, nutrition, and vital signs into conversational wellness guidance.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly improving scientists' ability to detect chemicals in the environment and human body.

Samsung Health's new AI consent feature raises privacy concerns as users decide whether to share their health data for AI training. Learn about potential data implications and user reactions.

Japan Wires AI Into Medicine Japan built the world’s most trusted names in medical hardware and biopharma. This

AI-powered speech-to-text technology is transforming NHS consultations by reducing administrative tasks, cutting backlogs, and improving patient interaction, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care.

As its new redesign rolls out, Samsung Health is also forcing users into a choice – let their data be used for AI training, or make it effectively unusable in the long term.

Samsung says refusing AI training in Samsung Health will only delete data collected for AI development, leaving existing health records untouched.

The First AI Layoff Lawsuit Twenty-six Meta employees sued the company late Monday in federal court in Oakland,

Samsung is teasing its next Galaxy Watch as an AI-powered health companion ahead of Galaxy Unpacked on July 22.

Twenty-six former Meta employees allege AI tools unfairly targeted disabled workers for layoffs, filing a lawsuit claiming discrimination and seeking to halt the process while arbitration proceeds.

Emergency call takers and dispatchers serve as the invisible frontline of public safety, navigating life-or-death crises over phone lines and radios without ever seeing the outcomes of their efforts.

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A new Samsung Health consent toggle gives users an ultimatum: agree to share sensitive health data for AI training or lose all their synced data permanently.

As its new redesign rolls out, Samsung Health is also forcing users into a choice – let their data be used for AI training, or make it effectively unusable in the long term.

Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from an emerging technology into an essential part of everyday life. From business

PsyEval is a new benchmark that tests how large language models perform on mental health knowledge, diagnostic assessment, and emotional support tasks. The study found that leading models can show strong factual recall and fluent responses, but still struggle with empathy, clinical nuance, prompt sensitivity, and safe diagnostic behavior.

A photo of Mitch McConnell in hospital has sparked controversy, with accusations of AI manipulation and concerns over his health's political implications.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Penn's Linguistic Data Consortium have received a two-year, $4 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a scalable, AI-powered platform for training mental health clinicians.

AI tools are proliferating across pulmonary medicine and critical care, with promising early results in diagnostics and prediction, but significant gaps between development and deployment.

Patients increasingly come to visits with AI-generated ideas and online research, forcing doctors to balance information, uncertainty, and reassurance in real time.

The update will be available to all users in England by April 2028, the health service says.

Dr. Alex Aliper, Co-founder and President of Insilico Medicine, will attend the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 7.

Insilico Medicine, a leader in clinical-stage generative AI for drug discovery, today announced a strategic collaboration agreement with Takeda to use its proprietary end-to-end platform, Pharma.AI, to advance drug candidates across the company's therapeutic areas.

People commonly disclose all kinds of personal data to AI chatbots, including the highly inadvisable practice of asking them for health advice. In addition to the grave medical dangers of obtaining inaccurate advice, users are also running significant privacy risks. Most AI chatbots have terms and conditions that allow any of your conversations with them to be used as training data, and often app terms that allow data to be collated and sold. Democrats now propose to update a privacy law to prevent the sale of health data …

Patients are also three times more likely to trust AI in their doctor's secure portal than a public chatbot.

New commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine warns that current risk-based regulatory approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare fall short in protecting patients, potentially leading to over- and undertreatment as well as discrimination against patient groups.

Simulation, virtual reality, and AI are reshaping medical education, allowing learners to build skills, personalize training, and prepare for complex clinical scenarios.

As new clinical AI tools proliferate, students are growing worried about the burden of keeping up. Are medical schools doing enough to train them?

WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2026 — Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his...

Patients, doctors, and other healthcare professionals who spoke with KFF Health News say the effort has created confusion, errors, long wait times, and stress.

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.