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Microsoft is rolling out an AI health assistant designed to help people manage their health using their own medical data. The feature, called Copilot Health, works inside the company's Copilot app and can provide personalised health advice using a user's medical data, if they choose to share it. With permission, the tool can review information [...]
A gene editing tool safely inserted large DNA segments in mice, pointing to a potential new route for genetic medicines. The technique uses circular, single-stranded DNA rather than the usual double-stranded form of DNA, the molecule that carries genetic instructions. The approach is known as INSTALL, short for "integration through nucleus-synthesised template addition of large [...]
By Ahmad Hussain, Reddie & Grose The global wearable technology market has surged in the past decade, evolving from simple step-counters to sophisticated health-monitoring platforms capable of capturing a wide range of biophysical data. Smart rings are a particularly fast-growing segment: valued at approximately USD 420 million today, the market is expected to exceed USD [...]
Biodegradable nanoparticles have been engineered to help the immune system find and destroy diseased immune cells in an early mouse study. Researchers said the work advances efforts to engineer immune cells inside a patient's own body to tackle cancers and autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Engineered immune cells have already been used to treat a [...]
The conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) at HIMSS 2026 carries a sense of urgency that is impossible to ignore. Walk the halls and AI is everywhere. Demonstrations of predictive analytics, clinical decision tools and large language models promise to reshape how health systems operate and how care is delivered. Entire sections of [...]
Amazon has expanded Health AI to its website and app, widening access to the healthcare assistant. The assistant, called Health AI, was previously only available on the app for One Medical, the healthcare company Amazon acquired for US$3.9bn in 2023. Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments [...]
HIMSS 2026 hums with a familiar energy. Demonstration screens glow with dashboards and predictive models. Crowds gather around booths where engineers translate clinical complexity into algorithms. Artificial intelligence dominates the conversation – almost every conversation. Something important has shifted this year as more than 30,000 gather to discuss health technology, wow. The [...]
Novo Nordisk has dropped its lawsuit against Hims after the companies reached a Wegovy deal to sell branded weight loss medicines through the platform. Early last month, Hims & Hers said it was going to launch a cheaper, off-brand version of the weight loss pill Wegovy, just weeks after Novo Nordisk launched its reformulation of [...]
MiniMed began trading on Nasdaq on Friday after Medtronic's diabetes tech spinoff raised US$560m in its initial public offering. The company listed under the ticker "MMED" after offering 28 million shares at US$20 each. That was below the US$25 to US$28 a share range the company had suggested in filings last month. MiniMed [...]
MedScout has secured US$10m to expand its artificial intelligence tools for medtech commercial teams, more than doubling its valuation from its Series A round. The company said enterprise revenue has grown threefold since its Series A as medtech companies adopt AI agents to turn commercial strategy into field execution. Alongside the funding, MedScout is launching [...]
