$3 Million Australian Digital Program Launched to Prevent Dementia Before Symptoms Appear
The Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund has granted $3 million to launch the Maintain Your Brain Plus (MYB+) digital program, targeting 5,000 adults aged 45‑79 in regional and rural communities. Built on the world’s largest online dementia‑prevention trial, the initiative aims to shift brain‑health promotion into everyday life before symptoms emerge.
Insilico and Human Longevity Launch Multimillion‑dollar AI Eye‑scan to Flag Disease Years Early
Insilico Medicine and Human Longevity announced a multimillion‑dollar partnership to build an AI‑driven eye‑scan platform that could identify cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration long before clinical symptoms. The collaboration taps Insilico’s generative‑AI expertise and Human Longevity’s decade‑long patient data library,...
WHO Prioritizes Regeneron's Maftivimab for Bundibugyo Ebola Trials Amid Growing Outbreak
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' maftivimab antibody has been recommended by the WHO Therapeutics Advisory Group for prioritized evaluation in clinical trials targeting the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, where 906 suspected cases and 223 deaths...
UK and France Begin AI Collaboration for Medical Research
At the G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Summit in Paris, the UK and France launched the UK‑France Strategic Biomedical Alliance in Health and AI, a joint effort to accelerate AI‑driven imaging research for women’s health. The partnership pools the University...
MIT Nanotech Catheter Spots Bladder‑cancer Biomarker 50,000× More Sensitively
MIT engineers have created a catheter lined with carbon‑nanotube sensors that can detect the bladder‑cancer biomarker NMP‑22 up to 50,000 times more sensitively than conventional urinalysis. The breakthrough, detailed in a Nature Nanotechnology paper, could enable clinicians to locate tumors...
How APAC Should Deploy AI to Find Hidden Lung Cancers
AI is moving from pilot projects to routine use in several APAC markets, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, as health systems grapple with limited CT capacity and radiology shortages. Qure.ai’s chief medical officer highlights that one‑third of lung‑cancer...
Ukraine Scales VR Therapy to Aid 1,100 War‑Trauma Patients
Ukraine has finished a six‑month, large‑scale deployment of mixed‑reality therapy across 47 health facilities, delivering 8,884 sessions to 1,114 patients. The program, run by health‑tech startup Aspichi and funded by Germany’s GIZ, aims to relieve a mental‑health system strained by...
AI Smart Rings Replace Smartwatches as Proactive Health Hubs
Smartwatches had their era. Now AI-powered smart rings are taking over. @ouraring just launched Oura Ring 5: • 40% smaller than Ring 4 • Starts at only 2 grams • Up to 9 days battery • Tracks 50+ health metrics • Adds AI health guidance + Health...
Siemens Healthineers, AiM Team up; Procept Completes Study Enrollment
Siemens Healthineers and AiM Medical Robotics announced a collaboration to integrate AiM’s portable robotic neurosurgery platform with Siemens’ Magnetom MRI scanners, enabling MRI‑guided procedures such as deep‑brain stimulation and tumor ablation. AiM, which raised $8.1 million in a Series A round last...
Nanotube-Coated Catheter Could Detect Bladder Cancer Biomarker 50,000 Times More Sensitively
MIT researchers have created a catheter coated with carbon‑nanotube nanosensors that can detect the bladder‑cancer biomarker NMP‑22 up to 50,000 times more sensitively than standard urinalysis. In animal models the sensor produced fluorescent chemical images that pinpointed tumors as small...
AI Enables Hyper-Personalized Nudges for Preventative Health
Last night I joined the TIME100 AI Leadership Forum in New York for a panel on "The AI Revolution in Health: Transitioning Toward a Preventative and Proactive Future," alongside Dr. Omar Lateef, President & CEO of @RushUniversity System for Health,...
Beyond the EHR: Why One CIO Believes AI Will Dwarf Every Prior Health IT Shift
Children’s Minnesota CIO Dave Lundal says the health‑care sector is entering a third, AI‑driven era that will dwarf the two previous waves of hospital information systems and electronic health records. He argues AI’s speed and breadth will reshape clinical, operational...
FDA Grants Coredio Breakthrough Designation for AI Platform Bringing Advanced Heart Failure Assessment Beyond the Hospital
Coredio’s Cardiac Performance Simulation Engine (CPSE™) received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and entry into the Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program, accelerating its path to a 510(k) clearance. The SaMD platform translates data from consumer smartwatches and standard blood‑pressure cuffs...
Athenahealth, Aetna CVS Health, and Catalyst Health Group Recognized for Advancing Real-Time Clinical Data Exchange
athenahealth, Aetna CVS Health, and Catalyst Health Group earned the 2026 KLAS Points of Light and K2 Collaborative Peak awards for a joint effort to enable real‑time clinical data exchange between payer and provider systems. The collaboration leverages HL7 FHIR...
WellSky® Unifies AI and the Patient Record in New Point of Care App for Home Health Clinicians
WellSky launched a mobile‑first Point of Care app for home‑health clinicians that embeds AI‑driven insights throughout the entire visit. The app pulls the complete patient record from the WellSky Home Health platform, enabling real‑time, context‑rich assistance on clinicians' phones or...