FDA Backs Down on Whoop’s Blood Pressure Feature After a Year-Long Fight
The Food and Drug Administration has quietly dropped its enforcement action against Whoop, the maker of a screenless fitness wearable...
Year: 2026
States Race to Put Humans Back in Charge of AI Health Insurance Decisions
Over the course of 2026, at least seven states have passed new laws restricting how health insurers can use artificial...
In Mongolia, AI Is Helping Catch a Preventable Cause of Infant Blindness in Seconds
In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the international eye-care nonprofit Orbis International and its technology partner Siloam Vision have begun what they describe...
An AI ‘Pharmacist Assistant’ Is Now Handling Refill Calls at a Major Health System
Foundation Health, a startup founded in 2023 by a co-founder of the digital pharmacy company Truepill, has spent 2026 expanding...
A Free AI Phone Line Now Chats With Lonely Seniors and Listens for Warning Signs
CareYaya Health Technologies has launched QuikTok, a free AI-powered phone companion aimed at older adults experiencing loneliness, built to work...
An AI Eye Scan in the Doctor’s Office Closed a Racial Gap in Diabetes Care, Study Finds
Researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine published findings this year showing that an AI-assisted diagnostic tool...
Humana Is Putting AI Behind the Scenes of 80 Million Member Calls a Year
Health insurer Humana announced on February 3, 2026 that it had rolled out a new AI system called Agent Assist,...
This Autonomous Robot Now Scans Entire Vineyards for Disease, Not Just 10% of Them
A Portuguese robotics spin-off called ViField has begun expanding sales of an autonomous, electric field robot named Orioos that rolls...
A Harvard Study Found an AI Reasoning Model Beat ER Doctors at Diagnosis. Debate Over What That Means Is Still Raging.
A study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, published in the journal Science,...
Massive Bio Becomes an OpenAI Select Partner to Match Cancer Patients With Clinical Trials
Massive Bio, a precision oncology company that uses AI to match cancer patients with clinical trials, was named an OpenAI...
