One in six people experience loneliness, contributing to an estimated 871,000 deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization, while the global AI companion market is forecast to reach $43…
Air conditioning will drive far more electricity demand than artificial intelligence over the next decade, adding some 1,400 terawatt-hours by 2035 versus 700 terawatt-hours for data centers, accordin…
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge warned on 15 July that only 8% of countries in the WHO European Region have a health-specific AI strategy, despite nearly two-thirds deploying AI in diagnos…
Google has contributed its Open Health Stack project code and assets to the Linux Foundation, which will launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation to build open source, AI-ready digital health …
Giving What We Can released its first YouTube video, hosted by Justin Portela, focusing on a 1955 WHO meeting that contributed to malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. The channel aims to introduce ef…
Healthcare AI is deploying disconnected point solutions like chatbots and fall-detection tools without addressing whether the underlying system was designed around people, according to Freddy del Barr…
An 11-year-old boy died from suspected heatstroke in Hong Kong after a 400-meter training run, prompting health experts to warn about the risks of extreme heat. The city recorded its hottest day of th…
The New York Times published a headline stating "Half a million known virus cases" during the Omicron peak, when the US alone exceeded that many cases daily, implying a factor-of-1000 error. The autho…
Level Access announced its digital accessibility platform is now available in the Microsoft Marketplace, enabling customers to discover and deploy the solution with seamless integration across Microso…
Consumer technology is shifting from reactive healthcare to preventive medicine by using wearable sensors and AI to monitor physiological signals continuously. Devices like smartwatches and smart ring…
Clalit Health Services has joined PANDAI, an €8 million EU-funded consortium using AI to predict and manage future pandemics. The project, backed by Horizon Europe and involving the WHO and research g…
Clalit Health Services, Israel's largest healthcare provider, has joined the PANDAI project, an €8 million European initiative funded by Horizon Europe to build an AI platform for detecting and managi…
Residents near AI data centers report chronic sleep disruption, headaches, and cardiovascular risks from low-frequency noise that standard decibel meters fail to capture. Cooling systems for AI server…
Korea's drug safety watchdog completed its first international joint review of a biopharmaceutical product alongside European and global regulators under the OPEN framework, easing regulatory bottlene…
More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfar…
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak in displacement camps as distrust grows among locals, who forced aid teams away after two women died from…
Researchers released a multilingual vaccine benchmark called VaxEval containing 1,886 multiple-choice questions covering 14 vaccines in English, Spanish, and Chinese, drawing from sources including th…
Global health-care providers are deploying agentic AI to automate administrative tasks and clinical decisions as the World Health Organization warns of a shortfall of 11 million health workers by 2030…
Researchers have systematically excluded women, particularly pregnant women, from clinical trials since post-thalidomide FDA guidance, leaving 79% of pregnant women taking at least one medication with…
Three Red Cross volunteers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo died after contracting Ebola during a humanitarian mission in March, before the outbreak was officially identified. The virus has sin…