Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most well-known hospital systems, is using AI in hopes of improving patient care and, ...

The American Medical Association has approved a restructuring of maternity care services codes in its Current Procedural Terminology code set for 2027, effective Jan. 1, 2027, according to a June 12 ...

More young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice. For the new study, researchers conducted a nationally representative survey in November 2025. Just over 1,000 12- to 21-year-olds ...

Nationally weighted 2025 survey estimated 19.2% of US youth (≈8.2 million) have sought mental health advice from AI chatbots, up from 13.1% in 2024. Use intensity was meaningful: 42.8% engaged at ...

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) are being integrated into the mental health industry for counseling, therapy, and companionship. A recent Brown University study ...

Patients have made over 14,000 virtual appointments in the eight months since Mass General Brigham launched its AI-powered platform to connect people who need primary care with telehealth physicians.

Pennsylvania is suing an AI chatbot, claiming its characters posed as licensed medical professionals to talk to people about their mental health. One chatbot, impersonating a psychiatrist, gave a fake ...

John writes about the politics of health care, and he is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. You can reach John on Signal at John_Wilkerson.07. WASHINGTON — For decades, ...

In March 2020, a husband and wife in a Tennessee memory-care unit escaped after deciphering a keypad code. The husband used his military background to crack the exit code, revealing a significant ...

A new type of chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms - and do so based on guidance that is both medically sound and easy to understand. The chatbot could help reduce ...

A new AI-powered chatbot developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego could help patients make more informed decisions about when to seek medical care. The tool is designed to ...

When two seasoned health and wellness professionals take the stage together, the conversation tends to go somewhere unexpected. That was exactly the case when Dr. Lisa Piper and Wendy Cohn-Osborne, ...