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Google Kills Fitbit Brand, Bets on $9.99/Month Gemini Health Coach
Google is retiring the Fitbit brand for a $9.99/month Gemini-powered Health Coach launching May 19, 2026, alongside a new $99.99 Fitbit Air tracker.
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AI-Powered Depression Screening Tool Outperforms Standard Questionnaire, Chinese Study Finds
A Zhengzhou Normal University study found that a ChatGPT-based depression screening tool, BDI-FS-GPT, achieved 89.3% sensitivity, outperforming the widely used PHQ-9 questionnaire, though researchers caution larger trials are still needed.
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Dartmouth’s Therabot Shows How a University-Built AI Chatbot Is Trying to Prove Itself Clinically
Dartmouth's Therabot, developed by psychiatry researchers Michael Heinz and Nicholas Jacobson, is being held up as an example of an AI mental health chatbot built and validated through clinical research rather than consumer trial and error.
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Cytovale’s AI-Read Sepsis Test Cuts Mortality 19% Across Four More Hospitals, New Multicenter Data Show
New multicenter data presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 2026 Critical Care Congress show Cytovale's AI-interpreted IntelliSep sepsis test cut mortality 19% across four expansion hospitals and more than 34,000 ED patients — though the results come from vendor-linked, pre-post analysis rather than an independent randomized trial.
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Ono Pharmaceutical Partners With Aitia to Hunt Neurological Drug Targets Using Causal AI ‘Digital Twins’
Ono Pharmaceutical has partnered with Aitia to use causal AI 'digital twins' to identify new drug targets for hard-to-treat neurological diseases, joining a wave of 2026 pharma-AI deals betting that modeling cause and effect — not just correlation — can finally move the needle on brain disease drug discovery.
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Oura’s New AI Model Aims to Answer the Women’s Health Questions Doctors Don’t Have Time For
Oura has built a proprietary AI model dedicated to women's health that blends clinician-vetted research with a user's own biometric data, aiming to give more trustworthy answers on cycles, pregnancy and menopause than generic search results.
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Mount Sinai Wires an AI Medical Search Engine Directly Into Its Hospital Records System
Mount Sinai has embedded OpenEvidence's AI clinical decision support tool directly into its Epic health record, letting physicians, nurses and pharmacists across seven hospitals query peer-reviewed medical evidence in natural language without leaving the patient chart.
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AI Is Rewiring Outpatient Surgery: Cleveland Clinic Expands Enterprise-Wide Deployment as Investment Surges
A new market report details how Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic have expanded AI enterprise-wide across outpatient surgery — from predictive risk models to post-discharge monitoring — as investors pour hundreds of millions into surgical AI startups.
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AI Pathology Hits the Clinical Standard: PathAI Raises $165M as Labcorp Expands AI-Read Diagnostics
A new market analysis shows AI-assisted pathology moving from pilot projects to routine clinical use, spotlighting PathAI's $165 million funding round and its expanded Labcorp partnership — even as independent clinical-outcome trials won't report results until 2029.
