AI Healthcare

How artificial intelligence is changing healthcare, medicine and the life sciences – from diagnosis and research to ethics and patient safety.

Here we collect everything we have published under AI Healthcare: news, analysis and explainers from the world of AI. The page is updated whenever a new story is published.

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Nov 7, 2026 · 6 min

Evaxion reports no tumor progression at three-year follow-up of EVX-01 in phase 2 study

Evaxion A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX) announced on Monday, 19 October 2026 that all patients at three-year follow-up in the phase 2 study of the personalized cancer vaccine EVX-01 maintained the clinical responses measured at two years, with no…

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Nov 6, 2026 · 6 min

A Startup Let an AI Agent Guide a Brain Injection in Mice — and Doesn't Know Yet If the Therapy Works

A startup company let an AI agent decide which gene therapy an epileptic mouse would receive, and where in the brain it would be injected — but kept humans in control of everything that could not be reversed.

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Nov 6, 2026 · 5 min

Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI decision support with LLM chat and 22 clinical calculators

The launch, announced November 3, 2026, combines an LLM chat with daily updates and 22 clinical calculators — but all feature claims come from the company's own press release.

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Nov 5, 2026 · 4 min

Medical Records and Retinal Images Revealed MS and NMOSD Years Before Diagnosis

Studies presented at MSToronto 2026 show that models trained on medical records, retinal images and blood tests flag multiple sclerosis and NMOSD long before clinical diagnosis — but the findings are retrospective, and no effect on…

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Nov 5, 2026 · 4 min

AstraZeneca and Oracle to find trial patients in real-world health data — Abu Dhabi is first up

The companies announced on Tuesday 20 October 2026 a collaboration to use artificial intelligence and real-world patient data for recruitment, earlier diagnosis and drug safety.

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Nov 5, 2026 · 5 min

Trained on 40 million faces: FAHR-Face estimates age and survival risk from a single photo

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have built a foundation model trained on more than 40 million facial images and adapted it into two tools: one that estimates biological age and one that predicts cancer survival directly from a single…

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Nov 5, 2026 · 6 min

Nearly a third of healthcare organizations have adopted AI agents, partly without IT approval

The American Medical Association launched a governance framework for agentic AI in healthcare on October 15 — an attempt to set standards for tools that can carry out multi-step tasks in clinical care without human oversight.

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Nov 5, 2026 · 4 min

Peer-Reviewed Review: 'Agentic' AI in Pathology Is Technically Promising, Not Clinically Proven

A new peer-reviewed review in Journal of Translational Medicine concludes that so-called agentic systems — which plan, reason and act autonomously — are not yet ready for the diagnostic bench.

ECNP brings together 19 experts to build a framework for AI in psychiatry

According to its own announcement, the European neuropsychiatric organisation ECNP has established the first Europe-wide expert group on artificial intelligence in mental health.

Machine learning mapped brown fat in 8,709 patients from over 100,000 clinical scans

A new study in Nature uses a machine-learning model to map brown fat's health associations at a scale that was not practically possible with manual analysis.

Commentary in Journal of Medical Systems: ECG analysis moves faster than physicians can verify

A commentary published in Journal of Medical Systems argues that the human-in-the-loop paradigm for cardiology AI is failing, because algorithms interpret ECGs and predict arrhythmia risk faster than any human can review.

Spanish AI tool distinguishes Ewing sarcoma from similar tumors with 91.6% accuracy

A Spanish research team has developed and validated a deep-learning pathology tool that distinguishes Ewing sarcoma from morphologically similar tumors, with a reported overall accuracy of 91.6%.

Over 10 million responses: Safety prompt cut harmful clinical AI choices from 16.6 to 10.1 percent

A comprehensive study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that a brief safety reminder in the prompt reduced the share of potentially harmful clinical choices in 19 of 20 tested language models — but one in ten responses…

Newsom signs law barring AI from independently making licensed medical decisions in California

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 1979, which bars hospitals and medical offices in California from letting artificial intelligence independently perform medical tasks that require a professional license – such as prescribing…

XCardioPulmoNet Analyzes Heart and Lung Sounds in a Single Framework

XCardioPulmoNet, developed at Saudi Electronic University, challenges two long-standing habits in computer-assisted auscultation: analyzing heart and lung sounds separately, and relying on just one way of representing sound.

98 patients met Google's AMIE before their doctor visit – no safety incidents, but one hallucination

For the first time, an AI chatbot was tested with real patients in a routine primary care workflow, according to the researchers themselves – and it went ahead without a safety stop.

Illumina reports 17 percent more disease-associated variants with SpliceAI2, tested on Genomics England data

The successor to the 2019 SpliceAI model — cited in more than 3,400 publications and embedded in ClinGen recommendations — uses DNA sequence alone to predict full transcripts.

Utah pilot lets AI prescribe acne medication from a face scan — under a three-stage leash

Since October 5, adults in Utah can get an initial prescription for acne treatment without seeing a doctor: a face scan in an app, a severity assessment from software, and a prescription drawn from a list of eight approved treatments.

Biohub to standardize NIH data for AI training in new $1.8 billion push

On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, the nonprofit Biohub announced that the US Department of Energy, NIH, Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining the organization's Virtual Biology Initiative – lifting total commitments to $1.8…

MIT Method Yields mRNA Vaccines That Survive a Year at Room Temperature – So Far, Only in Animal Studies

Researchers at MIT have used an AI method called AGENT to develop mRNA vaccine formulations that withstand two months at 37 °C and up to a year at room temperature.

New AI Model Could Spare Heart Transplant Patients Unnecessary Heart Biopsies

Researchers at NYU Langone have trained a model on 5,300 ECGs combined with two existing blood biomarkers. In a small test group, it identified 94% of patients without rejection — and would have spared more patients unnecessary biopsies…

EU-funded CHAIN project to provide validated cardiac AI documentation in "AI passports

The European Society of Cardiology announced on 6 October 2026 the launch of CHAIN, a 36-month project funded by EU4Health, with 53 partners from 20 countries.

20 Seconds of Speech Can Flag Type 2 Diabetes – but Nearly Every Other Alert Is a False Positive

An AI tool developed by the company thymia and RMIT University is said to be able to flag possible type 2 diabetes from an audio recording of just 20 seconds.

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