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A person reviewing a calm wellness dashboard while a glucose sensor contributes a continuous stream of health data

Google and Abbott will connect Lingo glucose readings to Gemini-powered health coaching, expanding personalised guidance while explicitly stopping short of medical use.

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AI Could Turn Routine Health Data Into an Early Warning for Fatty Liver Disease

Researchers are testing whether existing blood tests, records and chest X-rays can help identify liver damage before symptoms appear and treatment options narrow.

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Google’s Video Doctor Experiment Separates Conversation From Clinical Reasoning

Google’s AMIE research system matched primary care physicians on several controlled video-consultation measures, but real-patient evidence remains absent.

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AI Maps Schizophrenia as a Network of 766 Genes

A large genetic and brain-tissue analysis uses AI to connect hundreds of genes associated with schizophrenia, widening the map for future research.

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Novo Nordisk Moves AI Agents Deeper Into Drug Discovery

Novo Nordisk and AWS are creating a joint hub to connect computational analysis with laboratory work, while keeping scientific validation in the loop.

A clinician and patient viewing different levels of explanation for the same medical AI result

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Health AI Explanations Can Help—or Mislead—the Wrong User

A dermatology study found that AI explanations affect non-experts and clinicians differently, with fluent rationales increasing dangerous deference.

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Nodoca Shows How Medical AI Becomes a Clinical Product

Japan’s Nodoca uses throat images and patient data for rapid influenza assessment, replacing an uncomfortable nasal swab.

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PRISM2 Turns Pathology Slides Into Diagnostic Dialogue

Paige and Microsoft trained PRISM2 on millions of pathology slides and synthetic clinical dialogue, producing strong results with notable validation limits.