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Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.

Nov 14, 2026

Ukraine drafts law to regulate AI in medicine as most medical workers already use it

The Health Ministry's bill would classify medical AI systems by risk level; a ministry survey found 80.5% of more than 7,000 medical workers already use AI tools.

Nov 13, 2026

Machine-learning models predict death risk after heart attack better than standard score

The PERISCOPE models from Amsterdam UMC beat the GRACE 2.0 score for in-hospital and six-month mortality after stenting, across three datasets.

Nov 13, 2026

Redesign Health launches growth equity practice for clinical AI

The healthcare investor will make minority investments from Series A to pre-IPO in health IT, AI-enabled services and clinical AI.

Nov 13, 2026

Dyania Health and Nvidia bring clinical reasoning AI inside hospital networks

Dyania's Synapsis AI reads full patient records on hospitals' own Nvidia hardware; Cleveland Clinic used it to study 7,812 heart valve patients.

Nov 13, 2026

Betterness extends seed round to $3.5M for Miami AI health networks

The startup links members, gyms, clinics and coaches through one network run with its Bett-i AI assistant.

Nov 13, 2026

93% of health systems now use AI, CHIME survey finds

Full adoption of generative AI rose from 31% to 55% in a year, but few organisations fully document how they monitor models after deployment.

Nov 13, 2026

Senator Murray presses OpenAI after ChatGPT allegedly guided engineer off epilepsy drug

Bowen Wan's parents are suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT gave her a plan to stop her anti-seizure medication and hide it from her doctor before she died.

Nov 13, 2026

Bracco and Avicenna.AI win FDA clearance for AI that flags brain aneurysms on CT scans

UPTUNITY Aneurysm helps radiologists detect and follow up aneurysms on CT angiography and launches Bracco's new AI portfolio.

Nov 13, 2026

Zus Health raises $33 million to build the data layer for healthcare AI

Jonathan Bush's company says the Series B, led by Drive Capital, brings its total funding past $100 million.

Nov 13, 2026

Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome 2 to predict DNA variant effects in specific cell types

The model finds nearly twice as many expression-changing variants as its predecessor and is available via API for non-commercial research.

Nov 13, 2026

Taiwan hospital accelerator T+ MedIC names AI ECG and CT screening tools as first winners

MacKay Memorial and Tri-Service General Hospital picked AI tools for reading ECGs and chest CT scans from 14 finalist teams.

Nov 12, 2026

EU project ResPECT to build generative AI assistant for cancer and depression care

The Horizon Europe project, coordinated by Heidelberg University with 22 partners, plans a randomised trial in breast cancer and depression patients.

Nov 12, 2026

Marpai says AI agents handle routine claim inquiries as revenue returns to growth

The health plan administrator reported third quarter revenue of $4.4 million, up 9.6%, and is funding claims automation with a $12.1 million financing.

Nov 12, 2026

NHS England deletes claim that 137 hospital trusts benefit from Palantir's AI data platform

The list came down after 29 trusts told the Guardian they were not using all or most of the system, as ministers weigh extending Palantir's £330m contract.

Nov 12, 2026

Trial finds ChatGPT helped oncologists record more chemotherapy side effects, but patients did no better

In a 56-patient randomised trial presented at ESMO 2026, doctors using ChatGPT Plus logged nearly twice as many toxicities, with no gain in management or quality of life.

Nov 12, 2026

Lapsi Health adds emergency doctors' guidance to its Keikku clinical AI

ACEP's clinical policies will sit inside Keikku Reference, which answers clinicians' questions using the patient's record, the live consultation and test results.

Nov 12, 2026

Unio Health Partners deploys Basata's AI agents for patient intake across 60 specialty clinics

The California physician group will use Basata to process referrals, build charts, check insurance and schedule patients with AI voice agents.

Nov 12, 2026

LERA Health launches women's health platform with an AI coach for $29 a month

Members start with a $549 at-home assessment of hormones, gut, metabolism and stress, then get round-the-clock guidance from an AI coach backed by a human care team.

Nov 12, 2026

DIAGENS releases CT model covering 509 chest and abdominal findings

The Hong Kong-listed company's iMed-6.0 imaging models topped Shanghai AI Laboratory's MedBench multimodal ranking, and its new CT model reached a 0.855 AUC in internal tests.

Nov 12, 2026

LateralCare signs six US hospital associations to offer its AI revenue cycle platform

Hospital groups in Texas, California, Michigan, New York and Florida will make LateralCare's agentic revenue alai platform available to their members.

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