First AI-Designed Drug to Reach Phase III Just Won FDA Fast Track Status for a Disease With No Cure
Rentosertib, a lung-disease drug whose molecular target was identified and whose structure was designed by generative AI, has been granted...
Year: 2026
One AI Model, 32 Cancers: New Algorithm Reads Genetic Mutations Straight Off a Routine Biopsy Slide
A single stained tissue slide, the kind pathologists have examined under microscopes for more than a century, can now be...
AlphaFold Missed It: Mount Sinai Team Finds Hidden Cancer-Drug Pocket That Every AI Model Overlooked
For three years, every major AI structure-prediction tool available to drug hunters has been trained to see something that, it...
An AI Chatbot Now Adjusts Insulin Doses for Diabetes Patients. The FDA Cleared It Anyway.
A software company called UpDoc has begun rolling out what it describes as the first FDA-cleared clinical AI platform built...
An AI Voice Now Calls Seniors Every Day to Ask How They’re Doing. Atlanta Startup Bets Families Will Trust It.
An Atlanta-based health technology company called CheckWellCall has begun the commercial soft launch of an AI-powered daily wellness check-in platform...
States Race Ahead of Federal Regulators to Rein In AI Therapy Chatbots
With no federal framework yet governing AI chatbots that people turn to for mental health support, a growing patchwork of...
HCA Healthcare Bets on AI for a Task Its Nurses Repeat 60,000 Times a Day: The Shift-Change Handoff
Every day across HCA Healthcare's 190 hospitals and roughly 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, nurses perform the same routine roughly...
Temple University Hospital’s AI Insulin Tool Cuts Dangerous Blood Sugar Crashes in Half
At Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia, an artificial intelligence program called EndoTool is now fully embedded in how nurses...
Genomic Newborn Screening Study Finds AI-Aided DNA Analysis Could Flag Childhood Cancer Risk at Birth
A study published August 12, 2026 in Nature Communications by researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and...
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Becomes First Hospital Outside the U.S. to Deploy OpenAI’s Healthcare Models
Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital and a fixture on Newsweek's list of the world's best hospitals, has signed a...
