CareMother, an AI-driven maternal health platform from India's Doto Health supported by UNICEF, tracks maternal and fetal vitals and uses algorithms to flag high-risk pregnancies early, as part of a global push to reduce preventable childbirth deaths.
The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a July 2026 hearing on AI-enabled fraud against older adults, after which Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Mark Kelly sent letters to nine major AI companies asking how they protect seniors who use chatbot companions.
Researchers from IIT Kharagpur and KIIT University have built CerviSpectraDiag, a web-based AI app that reports 84.73% accuracy screening for cervical cancer and delivers results in near real time, aimed at expanding access in underserved areas.
Czech researchers have unveiled DigiDiaDem, an AI-powered application designed to help identify the first symptoms of dementia earlier than conventional screening, adding to a growing field of digital tools aimed at early cognitive decline detection.
Twin Cities Community Hospital and Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo County are using Viz.ai software to read CT scans for stroke symptoms within minutes, part of a growing wave of AI-assisted stroke care in community hospitals.
Anthropic is joining a federal clinical AI initiative run by ARPA-H and plans a closed-door health care event, a notable expansion into medicine for a company that has repeatedly warned the public about AI's catastrophic risks.
UpDoc has received FDA clearance for a large language model-based software tool that helps patients manage type 2 diabetes directly, part of a small but growing category of AI devices that interact with patients rather than clinicians.
A dozen U.S. health systems have joined a new collaborative aimed at speeding up and standardizing diagnostic imaging AI, with Aidoc CEO Elad Walach describing the effort as a way to move faster on faster, more accurate diagnosis.
A discussion paper from the FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence on regulating generative AI medical devices is drawing detailed objections from hospital groups before its public comment window closes October 19, with disputes centering on premarket review and postmarket monitoring.
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, the Department of Energy and the NIH have expanded their Virtual Biology Initiative to $1.8 billion, pairing new federal supercomputing power with Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta funding to build training data for predictive biology models.