CVS Health Partners with Google Cloud to Build AI-Driven Consumer Health Platform
CVS Health announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch Health100, an AI‑native consumer health platform that unifies patients, providers, payers and digital services. The platform leverages Google Gemini models, BigQuery and the Cloud Healthcare API to deliver an always‑on AI health companion that guides users through care decisions, costs and treatment pathways. By positioning Health100 as an orchestration layer, CVS shifts from a traditional pharmacy and clinic operator to a digital health platform orchestrator. The initiative also opens the platform to third‑party developers, creating a broader ecosystem.
Jet‑Suit Paramedics Cut Helvellyn Rescue Time to Minutes
“Someone called for a doctor?!” Jet suit paramedics can reach the top of Helvellyn in 3.5 minutes instead of 1 hour 15 minutes. https://t.co/LLwiZQIeTj
A Machine Learning Model May Enable Liver Cancer Risk Prediction with Routine Clinical Information
Researchers developed a random‑forest machine learning model that predicts hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk using only routine clinical data—demographics, electronic health records, and standard blood tests. In a UK Biobank cohort the model achieved an AUROC of 0.88, and external validation...
Google AMIE Shines in First Real-World Study
Google’s Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) completed a prospective clinical trial with 100 patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, collecting histories and delivering diagnostic differentials before primary‑care visits. The study reported zero safety stops, a correct final diagnosis in...
Cryoablation Outshines Radiation Therapy, Surgery for Treating Certain Lung Cancers
New research published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology shows percutaneous cryoablation delivers high local control for medically inoperable stage IA non‑small cell lung cancer, especially tumors under 2 cm. In a single‑center analysis of 176 patients, one‑year and three‑year...
$125M and a Cap Table That Reads Like a Who’s Who of Healthcare VC: What Qualified Health’s Series B Actually...
Qualified Health announced a $125 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $155 million and led by NEA alongside a slate of top health‑tech investors. The company offers an enterprise‑wide AI infrastructure platform that replaces fragmented point‑solution approaches. Early adopters such...
Cardiologists Use Endovascular Device for Brain Aneurysms to Treat High-Risk Heart Patients
Mayo Clinic interventional cardiologists and radiologists have repurposed Terumo's WEB SLS II intrasaccular flow disruptor—originally approved for intracranial bifurcation aneurysms—to treat saccular coronary aneurysms. The first case involved a 74‑year‑old patient undergoing aortic valve replacement and bypass surgery, where the device achieved...
CERN's FLASH Therapy Promises Faster, Safer Cancer Radiation
FLASH therapy at CERN harnesses particle accelerator technology to deliver ultra-fast, high-dose radiation treatment, potentially transforming cancer care with fewer side effects. https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
Open-Source DIY Guide to Building mRNA Vaccines
Inspired by the man who built a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog, I’ve written an open-source guide to DIY mRNA vaccine production: philfung.github.io/openvaxx Drawing on my background in running lab startups, the guide covers the entire process - from sequencing...
Monitor Your Blood Pressure With This Key Apple Watch Feature
Apple Watch cannot measure blood pressure directly, but it can sync with Bluetooth‑enabled cuffs through the Health app, letting users log readings on their wrist. Three popular monitors—Omron Evolv ($75), Withings ($130) and iHealth Feel ($50)—offer clinical‑grade data that automatically...
Summit Sparks Breakthroughs: AI, Gene Therapy, CRISPR, mRNA
One thing that really makes the in-person summits we run at STAT so amazing: the people in the room. Here's what happened when we asked some of them for the last big breakthrough they saw. Featuring: the infectious @DrBlytheAdamson, genomcis pioneer...
EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to obtain records on the WISeR program, a multi‑state Medicare pilot that uses artificial intelligence to evaluate prior‑authorization requests. WISeR,...
How Wearable Technology Is Changing the Role of Physicians
Wearable devices and AI‑driven health mirrors now collect detailed physiological data before patients ever see a doctor. This influx of self‑generated metrics forces physicians to act as interpreters rather than primary decision‑makers. Many platforms promise direct data transmission to clinicians,...
When Heart Patients Can’t Wait: Urgent TAVR with Self-Expanding Vs. Balloon-Expandable Valves
A retrospective analysis of nearly 600 urgent or emergent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures performed between 2012 and 2024 compared Medtronic self‑expanding valves (SEVs) with Edwards balloon‑expandable valves (BEVs). Adjusted Cox regression showed no significant difference in long‑term mortality...
Bridging Virtual Cells to Real Patients: The Next Frontier
Virtual biology burst onto the scene a few years ago. The idea was simple. Model the cell well enough, and you can predict biology before you test it. Large pharma has been thinking about this longer than most. PK/PD models, systems biology,...
Study Finds Daily Mileage Spikes Drive Up Runner Injuries by Up to 128%
A study of more than 5,000 runners tracked via Garmin watches shows that boosting a single run by over 10% of the longest run in the past month sharply raises injury risk, up to 128% for double‑distance spikes. The findings...
Friendly Bubble Robot Tackles Senior Loneliness in U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: in a sea of Terminator-looking bots, Aussie founder Grace Brown took a different direction for her robot, Abi: color, bubbles, and fun. Now her startup Andromeda, which has raised $16.6M, is launching for senior homes across the U.S. - with...
Shanghai Fosun Pharma Posts $472 Million Profit, Boosting R&D Outlook
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co Ltd announced full‑year profit of RMB3.371 bn ($472 m), up 22% from the prior year, while revenue edged 1.4% higher to RMB41.498 bn. The earnings lift expands the group’s capacity to fund R&D and health‑technology projects amid a...
Adonis Raises $40M Series C to Strengthen Healthcare Revenue Cycle
Adonis announced a $40 million Series C round to accelerate its revenue‑cycle platform for healthcare providers. The funding, led by a mix of existing and new investors, will support product expansion and deeper market penetration. CEO Akash Magoon highlighted persistent challenges such as...
Thesis Care (Formerly Trovo Health) Secures $45M to Scale AI-Powered Clinical Care Teams
Thesis Care, formerly Trovo Health, closed a $45 million Series A round led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $60 million. Founded in 2024 by ex‑Cedar executives, the startup uses AI agents backed by clinicians‑in‑the‑loop to automate end‑to‑end clinical workflows. By delivering...
Qualified Health Raises $125M to Scale Generative AI in Health Systems
Qualified Health, a public‑benefit AI firm, closed a $125 million Series B led by NEA, adding investors such as Transformation Capital and Anthropic. The round will fund expansion of its generative‑AI platform that offers governance, risk‑alert, privacy safeguards and workflow automation for...
Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative Doubles $1M Prize Competition for Agentic AI Solutions
The Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative announced that Biomni-AD and Prima Mente each won the $1 million Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize, doubling the competition’s total payout to $2 million. The competition, launched in August 2025 and backed by Bill Gates and a broad...
Legacy Systems Present Modern Challenges at the VA
Veterans Affairs is phasing out its decades‑old custom electronic health record (EHR) in favor of a modern, interoperable platform, CMIO Dr. Jonathan Nebeker announced. The new system will support standardized data exchange and enable integration of emerging digital tools such...
Asclepius MedTech Limited Named Winner of Big Ideas Challenge
Leeds‑based Asclepius MedTech Limited won the Mayor’s Big Ideas Challenge, receiving £100,000 (≈ $127,000) to scale its Surgfit remote monitoring system. Surgfit uses a disposable wearable sensor to replace hospital visits for pre‑ and post‑operative assessments, aiming to reduce missed risk...
New Treatments Target Faulty Genetic Heart Signals
A new DNA‑methylation (episignature) test can differentiate harmful from benign NOTCH1 variants in congenital heart disease, giving families definitive genetic answers. The assay scans over 740,000 genomic sites to identify a characteristic methylation pattern linked to disease‑causing mutations. Positive results...
A New Opportunity to Reduce Resident Burnout: Young Doctors Are AI Natives
Resident physicians are experiencing burnout at rates higher than any other U.S. worker, driven by demanding schedules, financial pressures, and limited control over time. Traditional mental‑health services often fail to accommodate their irregular hours, prompting many to turn to AI‑based...
Microneedle Vaccine Patch Company Raises $50M for Pivot to GLP-1 Delivery
Terrestrial Bio, the microneedle vaccine patch pioneer originally founded as Vaxess Technologies, announced a $50 million Series B financing round to shift its focus from vaccines to GLP‑1 peptide delivery. The capital, led by a consortium of biotech investors, will fund clinical...
AI-Powered Virtual Oncology Gets Smarter: Reimagine Care Advances Remi to Capture the Nuance of Cancer Patient Conversations
Reimagine Care announced a major upgrade to its AI‑powered virtual oncology assistant, Remi, shifting from rule‑based scripts to natural‑language understanding that can interpret complex patient messages. The SMS‑based platform now adds safety guardrails, AI‑assisted clinician summaries, and expanded monitoring for...
AI ROI Arrives as Billions Adopt Health Wearables
The view from my hotel room in Chamonix is quite spectacular. I spoke yesterday at a global event organized by a major pharma company. They organized it near Mt. Blanc to make the country managers literally aim higher and higher. I...
Affordable €2000 Robot Offers Elderly Care and Home Automation
This robot was designed for elderly care. It can have conversations with the user, measure blood pressure and heart rate, operate the smart elements of the house from heat to lights and do simpler tasks. It's quite the accomplishment (or claims) for...
GrayMatters Health Announces Appointment of Five Expert Advisors
GrayMatters Health announced the appointment of five expert advisors to accelerate the commercial growth of Prism, its digital brain‑biomarker platform for PTSD and depression. The advisors—former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy and psychiatrists Owen Scott Muir, Linda Carpenter, Kenneth Pages, and...
How “Mindreading” AI Detects Hidden Suicidal Thoughts in the Brains of Young Adults
A new study using functional MRI and machine‑learning algorithms found that young adults with suicidal thoughts show distinct brain activation when processing death‑related words, allowing the model to separate them from healthy peers with roughly 57‑61% accuracy. The research involved...
Building the Path to 3D-Printed Organs, Cellbricks Raises €10M for Biofabricated Tissue Implants
Berlin‑based Cellbricks Therapeutics secured €10 million (≈$11 million) in funding, including a €7 million seed round and over €3 million of non‑dilutive capital, to advance its light‑based biofabrication platform. The company aims to commercialise vascularised human tissue implants for complex wound healing and breast...
Actionable Monitoring Beats Data Overload in Cardiac Care
Health care has become better at saving people once they are already in trouble. That does not mean we have become good at catching trouble early. This episode of The Podcast by KevinMD gets at a hard truth in cardiac care: we...
Red‑Light Therapy: The Real Science Behind the Hype
The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works. People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some interesting biology. https://t.co/JWV80QOuQU
Basecamp Research Unveils Trillion Gene Atlas to Boost Longevity Drug Discovery
Basecamp Research has launched the Trillion Gene Atlas, a platform that will collect and model genetic information from more than 100 million species, expanding known evolutionary diversity by roughly 100‑fold. The initiative aims to give AI models a vastly broader biological...
Rethinking Trust in AI Doctors Amid Cyber‑Anxiety
“Can I (and should I) trust my cyborg doctor?” That’s the panel discussion happening now at #vMed26. UCLA bioethicist Dr Neil Wenger provides pros and cons of AI. Shows cartoon of patient addicted to the “IV infusion” of social media,...
Microscopic Robot Delivers Targeted Drugs Inside Bloodstream
Microscopic #Robot Navigates the Bloodstream to Deliver Targeted Medication by @CeoImed #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/LBJeDdwTuq
Insufficient Source Data to Report on Hope Medicine's Phase III Trial
The requested story about Hope Medicine initiating a Phase III trial of a monoclonal antibody for endometriosis cannot be produced because none of the provided source material contains information on this development.
AI-Driven Humanoid Robots Promise Universal, Elite-Level Healthcare
Humanoid robots + AI will mean everyone on Earth has access to better medical care than the richest person alive today. THAT is what abundance looks like.
Cedars Sinai Showcases Expansive Clinical AI Ecosystem
Amazing breadth and depth of clinical AI programs underway at #CedarsSinai. Chief Medical Information Officer Dr Shaun Miller describing the AI ecosystem in our hospital in his talk, happening now at @virtualmedconf. https://t.co/KpssghSMlc
Six in 10 NHS Consultants Would Favour Online Work
The NHS is rolling out a virtual hospital service, NHS Online, slated to launch in 2027 and target common conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, menopause and glaucoma. A survey of 303 consultants revealed that 60% would consider working online...
AI Matches Dermatologists in Melanoma Diagnosis, Study Shows
How good is AI for diagnosing melanoma? A systematic review of 11 studies, 2500 patients, finds accuracy and performance comparable to 50 dermatologists, with promise for broad use requiring further validation @JAMADerm This is important with the big shortage of dermatologists...
AI in Healthcare Must Address Algorithmic Bias
The #Algorithmic Divide: Why #Healthcare #AI Shouldn’t Treat Everyone The Same by Brad Porter @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/Jw7zyu0LFo #MedTech #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/Fo3KyOyzqZ
Magnetic Silk‑Iron Nanoparticles Offer Precise Drug Delivery to Inaccessible Tissues
A multinational research team has created magnetic silk‑iron nanocomposite particles that can be steered with external magnetic fields to deliver therapeutics directly to otherwise inaccessible tissues. The breakthrough promises higher efficacy and lower side‑effects for treatments ranging from cancer to...
World-First Portable Multi-Pathogen CRISPR Test Seeks to Improve STI Diagnostics
Researchers at Australia’s Peter Doherty Institute have created a portable, CRISPR‑based diagnostic that simultaneously detects syphilis, HSV, chlamydia and gonorrhea in under an hour. The assay also identifies a key antibiotic‑resistance gene in gonorrhea, delivering 97‑100% accuracy compared with laboratory...
Philips Launches IntraSight Plus to Simplify Coronary Interventions and Advance Precision Care
Royal Philips has launched IntraSight Plus, an FDA‑cleared and CE‑marked interventional cardiology platform that unifies intravascular ultrasound, iFR/FFR physiology, and angiographic imaging on a single screen. The system promises up to 47% reduction in procedure time by streamlining data entry...