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

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 13, 2026

Sheinbaum meets OpenAI president Greg Brockman on AI in Mexican healthcare

The Mexican president said they agreed AI can benefit healthcare; no partnership was announced.

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.

Nov 12, 2026

SmileFy launches AI Smile Designer that plans dental makeovers from a photo and scan

The tool analyses facial and dental features, suggests treatments such as aligners or veneers, and builds a 3D design on the intraoral scan; dentists make the clinical calls.

Nov 12, 2026

RADPAIR builds its AI radiology reporting into Novarad's NovaPACS imaging platform

Radiologists will be able to read images, check prior studies and draft and finalise AI-generated reports in one workspace instead of switching between applications.

Nov 12, 2026

Chris Hemsworth co-founds KINSYN, a wellness platform that uses AI on medical and wearable data

KINSYN combines medical records, biomarkers and wearable data, with proprietary AI to help physicians make individual recommendations, including prescriptions and supplements.

Nov 12, 2026

Kno2 connects Microsoft Azure healthcare customers to its national clinical data network

Health systems on Azure can pull outside clinical records into Fabric and OneLake through Kno2 and use them in agents built with Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.

Nov 12, 2026

Penguin Ai survey: 62% of patients facing prior authorization delays gave up on care

In a survey of 500 US adults commissioned by Penguin Ai, 69% said they would be more upset if AI made or recommended a denial, but 87% would back AI that speeds approvals.

Nov 12, 2026

Orakl Oncology Raises $34 Million to Predict Cancer Drug Response With AI

Paris-based Orakl Oncology raised a $34 million Series A led by Norrsken VC and Singular for AI that tests cancer drugs on lab-grown virtual patients.

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