The FDA Just Cleared a Chatbot to Manage Your Insulin — With a Human Doctor Still Holding the Leash
On June 25, 2026, a four-year-old startup called UpDoc announced something that had never happened before: the FDA had cleared...
Year: 2026
Nine Out of Ten Times the Algorithm Was Wrong—Now a Judge Is Making UnitedHealth Explain Why It Used It Anyway
A federal class-action lawsuit that began with the deaths of two Medicare Advantage patients has become one of the most...
Takeda Just Bet $600 Million That an AI Can Find Its Next Drug Before a Human Does
On July 3, 2026, Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda announced a collaboration with Insilico Medicine worth up to $600 million, handing...
One Nurse Got Two Hours of Her Shift Back—Mercy’s AI Listens So She Doesn’t Have to Type
At Mercy hospitals in Missouri and Arkansas, nurses have started narrating patient care out loud during their shifts, and an...
93% of Hospitals Are Already Running AI—Only 44% Have Tested It Properly, New Report Finds
A new survey of health system leaders lands on a blunt conclusion: American hospitals have raced ahead with artificial intelligence...
This App Listens to Your Voice for 90 Seconds and Screens for Depression
Kintsugi Mindful Wellness has built one of the more closely studied tools in a growing category: AI that analyzes the...
105,000 Women, One Trial: AI-Read Mammograms Found Fewer Aggressive Cancers Later
The full results of the MASAI trial—a randomized controlled study conducted in Sweden involving more than 105,000 women—have landed with...
A $4.6 Million Bet That Your Phone Camera Can Spot a Stroke Before the CT Scanner Does
Medtech startup AI-Stroke, founded in 2022 by a team of engineers, clinicians, and former investors, has raised a $4.6 million...
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Chatbots That Sounded Like Licensed Doctors
Pennsylvania's attorney general has filed suit against Character.AI, alleging that some of the company's chatbot personas presented themselves to users...
There Are Now Over 1,300 FDA-Cleared AI Medical Devices—Here’s Where They All Went
Sometime in January 2026, the FDA's running list of authorized artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices quietly crossed the...
