PlaqueTec Closes $5 Million Financing
PlaqueTec, a MedTech firm specializing in intracoronary liquid biopsy, announced a $5 million financing round, fully subscribed by existing investors. The capital will fund the expansion of its proprietary cardiovascular data lake, BioCarta, which aggregates proteomic and clinical data from the ongoing BIOPATTERN trial. BioCarta’s site‑of‑disease approach aims to improve inflammatory risk stratification and guide targeted therapies for cardiovascular disease. PlaqueTec is now pursuing partnerships with pharmaceutical companies to commercialize its platform.
Google to Deploy Gemini AI Chat as Mental‑Health Support Bridge
Google announced updates to its Gemini chatbot that will actively direct users in crisis to professional help, positioning the AI as a bridge rather than a shutdown point. Clinical director Megan Jones Bell said the move aims to make the...
Hospital Patients Can Now View Appointments in NHS App
Hospital patients at every acute NHS trust in England can now view, reschedule or cancel referrals and appointments through the NHS App, covering about 64% of all hospital bookings. The rollout adds to the 41 million registered users, with 15 million logins...
Arcade Game Distraction Makes Kids' Vaccinations Painless
Distraction can soothe the experience of so many medical procedures, especially for kids. This video from a Chinese physician shows how he could give the child two vaccines while he was playing with an arcade game. I'd love to use the same...
Sheffield’s New Cancer Robot Cuts Its Own Ribbon
Sheffield Hospitals Charity donated a record £1.45 million (about $1.84 million) to install a dual‑console da Vinci Xi surgical robot at Northern General Hospital. The system enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive procedures on lung, oesophageal, stomach, bowel, liver, pancreas and kidney...
Prxxhri $53 Smart Ring Beats Smartwatches in Amazon Sales, Fueling Minimalist Wearable Trend
Prxxhri’s $53 smart ring has become Amazon’s best‑selling health wearable, overtaking bulkier smartwatches. Shoppers praise its sleek design, all‑day comfort and comprehensive health tracking, signaling a shift toward minimalist wearables.
International News in Brief: IVF Pregnancy Achieved with “Fully Autonomous” System, Prince Edward Island AVT Pilot, Amazon Weight Management Programme
A health‑tech startup, BAIBYS, announced a first‑trimester pregnancy achieved with its fully autonomous AI‑driven system that selects and isolates sperm cells for IVF, cutting procedure time dramatically. In Canada, Prince Edward Island joins a national AI‑scribe pilot that promises clinicians...
A Hack for Germaphobia
Psychology professor Tara Donker of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is creating an augmented‑reality (AR) app that immerses germ‑phobic users in simulated filthy environments to break their contamination fears. The tool builds on her earlier AR treatments for acrophobia and arachnophobia, using controlled...
If AI Can Model Cells, Science Can Deliver Cures
The Biohub Institute announced the Virtual Biology Initiative, a $100 million pledge to generate open‑source cellular data for AI training. Partnering with the Allen Institute, Broad Institute, NVIDIA, Wellcome Sanger and others, the effort aims to build massive, public datasets that...
The Machine Ethics Podcast: Organoid Computing with Dr Ewelina Kurtys
In this episode, host discusses organoid-based biocomputing with neuroscientist‑turned‑entrepreneur Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, who advises the Swiss startup Final Spark. They explain how cultured cortical organoids of ~10,000 neurons are wired to electrodes to send and read electrical signals, highlighting the...
How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance now kills over a million people annually and could claim 40 million lives by 2050. Traditional culture‑based diagnostics take days, forcing physicians to guess treatments and driving misuse of antibiotics. AI‑powered diagnostics are achieving more than 99% accuracy and...
Massive Bio Partners with OpenAI to Broaden Clinical Trial Access
Massive Bio has teamed up with OpenAI under the Impact Hours programme to automate clinical‑trial eligibility screening. The AI engine translates complex sponsor criteria into machine‑readable parameters, enabling real‑time, automated patient pre‑screening for oncology and haematology studies. The partnership includes...
Tumor/Lymph Node Dual‐Targeting Ultrasonic Nanoconverter Orchestrates Spatiotemporal ROS Regulation for Dual‐Zone Programmed Sono‐STING Immunotherapy
Researchers have engineered a dual‑targeting ultrasonic nanoconverter (OPD@PSF) that co‑delivers the sonosensitizer protoporphyrin IX and the STING agonist Vadimezan to breast tumors and their draining lymph nodes. High‑power ultrasound at the tumor site generates abundant reactive oxygen species, inducing immunogenic...
Laser‐Induced Graphene for Pressure and Strain Sensors: Fabrication, Performance Optimization, and Applications
Laser‑induced graphene (LIG) has become a cornerstone for flexible pressure and strain sensors since its 2014 debut, thanks to its superior electrical conductivity and mechanical resilience. The reviewed paper dissects sensing mechanisms, outlines fabrication routes—including precursor selection and laser‑parameter tuning—and...
Bevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
Bevey Miner, EVP of Healthcare Strategy at Consensus Cloud Solutions, explained that digital cloud faxing isn’t the interoperability problem—unstructured fax data is. The company’s eFax platform now includes an AI‑driven extraction engine called Clarity, which converts PDFs, TIFFs and scanned...
NHS England Simplifies the Digital Estate
NHS England is extending its public‑facing design system to cover staff‑oriented digital services, adding new components rather than building a separate internal framework. The update introduces an account header, smaller checkboxes, notification banners, pagination, interruption pages, and a file‑upload widget....
Word Games: How Moderna Is Selling Its Newest Vaccine without Using the “V” Word
Moderna’s $776 million federal award for a bird‑flu vaccine is under scrutiny after U.S. officials targeted mRNA technology, prompting the company to warn it may halt late‑stage vaccine programs. Simultaneously, Moderna and Merck are advancing an mRNA‑based cancer treatment, which Merck...
AI Detects Hidden Pancreatic Cancer at 73% Accuracy
An AI that detects occult pancreatic cancer better than radiologists (73 vs 39%) via CT with external validation https://t.co/NIiIFjlyxp https://t.co/8aVAmy0eFl
Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography May Predict Diabetic Nephropathy
A Harvard‑based study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology shows that swept‑source optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can serve as a non‑invasive biomarker for diabetic nephropathy. Researchers analyzed 375 eyes from 234 diabetic patients and...
Eli Lilly Inks AI Partnership with Profluent, Eyeing $2.25 B in Gene‑editing Milestones
Eli Lilly announced a collaboration with AI‑focused biotech Profluent to create advanced gene‑editing tools that could insert whole genes. The agreement may trigger $2.25 billion in milestone payments, highlighting Lilly’s rapid expansion into genetic medicines.
The World's Smallest Wellness Wearable, Smart Earrings, Just Launched on Kickstarter
Lumia Health launched its Lumia 2 smart earrings on Kickstarter, raising over $800,000—about 80 times the $10,000 goal. The coffee‑bean‑sized wearables embed a second‑generation PreciseLight sensor and track more than 20 health metrics, including blood flow, heart‑rate variability and sleep. Swappable...
Johnson & Johnson Halves Drug Lead‑optimization Time with AI
Johnson & Johnson announced that its artificial‑intelligence platform has reduced the time required to generate drug‑development leads by half. CIO Jim Swanson highlighted accelerated progress on an oncology and an immunology compound, underscoring AI’s growing role in pharma R&D.
Improving Access to Essential Medicines via Decision-Aware Machine Learning
A new wave of decision‑aware machine‑learning models is being applied to pharmaceutical supply chains in low‑income regions, blending demand forecasts with inventory and distribution constraints. Early pilots in Zambia and Rwanda report up to a 30% reduction in stock‑outs and...
How Tech Can Bridge Gaps in Rural Healthcare Data Struggles
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is pushing technology to cut costs and improve care in rural America. A new ONC mandate requires electronic health records to show prescription benefit information, giving patients price transparency at the...
OpenEvidence Replaces UpToDate, Restoring True Clinical Practice
Seventeen Years, or Seventeen Seconds How OpenEvidence Gave Me Back the Practice of Medicine 👨⚕️ 🔎"The Bottom Line: After 25 years in primary care, I started using OpenEvidence in December 2025. Within a month, I stopped using UpToDate. OpenEvidence functions simultaneously as my...
AI Model Detects Normally 'Invisible' Tissue Changes of Pancreatic Cancer at Stage 0
Researchers unveiled REDMOD, an AI radiomics framework that identifies stage 0 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma on routine CT scans. In a multi‑institutional study of 219 cancer cases and 1,243 controls, REDMOD flagged disease an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis, achieving 73%...
AI, Face Photos May Predict Cancer Survival: Mass General Brigham Study
Mass General Brigham researchers validated FaceAge, an AI tool that estimates biological age from facial photographs, as a survival predictor for cancer patients. The study examined two routine photos per patient for 2,279 individuals, finding that changes in the Face...
Beth Israel Lahey Health Rolls Out AI Scribe Systemwide
Beth Israel Lahey Health, a 14‑hospital system in Massachusetts, has selected Heidi as its systemwide AI scribe vendor. After a six‑month pilot involving 1,000 physicians, the health system began rolling out the technology to all providers. Clinicians reported higher note...
Living Vessel ATEV Offers New Hope for Dialysis Access
Humacyte’s ATEV could change the game for dialysis patients who run out of fistula options. It’s a living vessel that resists infection and needs fewer repairs. Major unmet need, big potential. Biotech
Judy Faulkner: Profitability Is a ‘Side Effect,’ Not the Goal
Epic Systems, led by founder‑CEO Judy Faulkner, continues to prioritize patient‑centric software over profit maximization, even as its revenue climbs to about $6.7 billion in 2025. Faulkner describes profitability as a "side effect" of delivering value, a stance enabled by the...
Wastewater Surveillance Supports COVID-19 Screening in Hospitals
A retrospective study at University Hospital Basel linked SARS‑CoV‑2 concentrations in municipal wastewater to COVID‑19 positivity among asymptomatic patients screened on admission. The analysis of 75,667 PCR tests showed a 1.2% positivity rate, with stronger correlations during periods of high...
MDaudit Launches “Revenue Integrity Redefined” To Help Healthcare Organizations Reclaim Financial Control
MDaudit unveiled its "Revenue Integrity Redefined" campaign, a suite of AI‑driven tools and a maturity‑assessment resource aimed at moving health‑system revenue cycles from reactive denial handling to proactive risk control. The platform’s Meaningful AI framework embeds intelligence across coding, billing...
Ultralow-Temperature Cryoablation Shows Promise for VT
The FULCRUM‑VT IDE trial evaluated Adagio Medical’s vCLAS ultralow‑temperature cryoablation system in 209 patients with monomorphic ventricular tachycardia. At six months, 59% of participants remained free of recurrent VT, ICD interventions, and antiarrhythmic escalation, while acute success reached 98% non‑inducibility....
UC San Diego Health Performs First West Coast AI‑Robotic Spine Surgery
UC San Diego Health has completed the first AI‑driven robotic spine fusion on the West Coast, using a system that merges artificial intelligence, advanced imaging and robotic screw delivery. Surgeons say the platform boosts accuracy, reduces radiation exposure and could...
FINEOS and Opifiny Team Up to Automate Claims and Absence Management Across North America
FINEOS Corp. announced a strategic partnership with Opifiny Corp. to embed Opifiny’s cloud‑based medical‑information platform directly into FINEOS’s claims and absence management suite. The integration aims to cut claim cycle times, boost data accuracy and lower administrative burdens for insurers,...
New Blood-Based Method Identifies Testicular Cancer Missed by Standard Tests
Mayo Clinic scientists unveiled a blood‑based assay, GCT‑iSIGN, that detects germ cell tumors with 93% sensitivity and 99% specificity, even when conventional tumor markers are negative. In a cohort of 427 samples, the test caught 23 of 24 cases missed...
Apple Vision Pro Enables First Spatial-Computing Cataract Surgery
An ophthalmologist in San Diego just performed the first Apple Vision Pro-assisted cataract eye surgery. Dr. Tommy Korn (aka medicine's first "chief spatial computing medical officer") did it as part of a clinical study. Main benefits are easy access to patient info (visual...
Palm‑sized Infrared Laser Boosts Skin and Muscle Health
This device will not only improve your skin, but the muscles beneath as well. Infrared laser treatment used to mean expensive clinic visits. LYMA put that same technology into an at-home device that fits in your palm. Your skin, healing,...
Health-E Commerce Partners with Talkspace on Mental Health Counseling Offer
Health-E Commerce announced a partnership with virtual therapy provider Talkspace, allowing consumers to purchase mental‑health counseling through its FSA Store and HSA Store using pretax dollars. First‑time patients who pay with FSA or HSA funds receive a $100 discount on...
Real‑World OmegaAI Workflow: Beyond Demo Perfection
Most demos show you the perfect path. But what does the software actually feel like to use? This hands-on look at RamSoft’s OmegaAI + Blume pulls back the curtain—no fluff, just real workflow insights. 🔗 https://t.co/F9IGWOx3zl @Ramsoft #RadiologyWorkflow #healthtech
Multiple Myeloma Sequencing Evolves With CAR T, MRD Insights: Sylvester Homsy, MD
At an Institute for Value‑Based Medicine event in Charlotte, Sylvester Homsy, MD highlighted how CAR‑T cell therapy and bispecific antibodies are reshaping multiple myeloma treatment sequencing. The emergence of B‑cell maturation antigen‑targeted agents is prompting clinicians to consider these high‑efficacy...
FDA Partners with AZN, AMGN to Accelerate AI-Driven Trials
FDA launches effort with $AZN $AMGN to speed up clinical trials, using AI https://t.co/k4LjxnDLmq via @LizzyLaw_
Why Microbot Medical Developed a Fully Disposable Surgical Robot
Microbot Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance in September 2025 for its fully disposable Liberty surgical robot, designed for peripheral endovascular navigation. The single‑use system combines a compact drive unit, remote controller, and mounting arm that can be set up in...
New AI Models Quickly Find Compounds that Target Lyme Bacteria
Tufts University researchers have leveraged AI and machine‑learning to rapidly pinpoint narrow‑spectrum antibiotics that kill the Lyme disease bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. Screening 60,000 existing compounds yielded several hundred hits, and generative models now explore an estimated 10^60 drug‑like molecules to...
Advanced Gene Editing ‘Promising’ for Sickle Cell Disease
Two recent New England Journal of Medicine studies demonstrate that CRISPR‑Cas12a (reni‑cel) and base‑editing (risto‑cel) autologous stem‑cell therapies can dramatically raise fetal hemoglobin and normalize total hemoglobin in sickle cell patients. The RUBY trial reported a rise from 2.5% to...
Human-Centered Digital Transformation in Specialty Pharmacy
At the AXS26 Summit, AcariaHealth executives outlined a human‑centered digital transformation for specialty pharmacy that streamlines workflows while keeping personal clinician contact. They showcased a secure‑messaging onboarding process that trims a typical 45‑minute intake call to a brief exchange and...
How to Implement AI-Powered Coronary Plaque Analysis Software—And Ensure You Get Paid
Artificial intelligence is now being used to analyze coronary plaque in CT angiography, offering detailed, non‑invasive assessments of coronary artery disease. Medicare expanded coverage and introduced Category 1 CPT codes in 2024, allowing providers to be reimbursed for AI‑driven plaque analysis....
Federated Machine Learning Gives Healthcare Organizations a Competitive AI Advantage
Federated machine learning lets health systems train AI models on‑site, sending only model updates to a central server. This decentralized approach preserves patient privacy while aggregating insights from multiple hospitals, such as Mayo Clinic and Vanderbilt University, using NVIDIA‑powered platforms....
Tiny Chip Delivers High‑Bandwidth Wireless Brain Interface
Ultra-Compact Brain–Computer Interface Chip Enables High-Bandwidth Wireless Neural Communication by @CUSEAS #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/gaulMV302i
Using AI to Excuse Patient Denials Damages AI’s Reputation
Letting companies use AI as a smokescreen for why patients are getting denied healthcare is going to be terrible for AI's brand https://t.co/eltFYOkih6