Eli Lilly Bets €2.4B on AI-Designed Drugs in New Insilico Medicine Deal
oncodaily - In a sweeping push to expand its pipeline and embrace artificial intelligence in drug discovery, Eli Lilly and Company has announced two major strategic moves: a multi-billion-dollar collaboration with Insilico […]
AI Summary: Eli Lilly struck a major partnership with Insilico Medicine to accelerate AI‑designed drug programs, providing a substantial upfront payment and committing to multiyear development milestones and potential payouts worth roughly in the billions. The deal expands Lilly’s AI drug discovery footprint and signals big pharma’s growing bet on algorithmic chemistry.
Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth
medicalxpress - Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people aged 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults.
AI Summary: Telehealth provision of medication abortion has surged, reducing travel for many and prompting a noticeable uptick in online requests from teenagers. Reports show virtual care is reshaping access patterns and forcing healthcare systems and regulators to confront new realities around remote prescribing, confidentiality, and youth access to reproductive services.
When everyday tasks become harder: Early clues to Alzheimer's disease
medicalxpress - For many older adults, life is full of routines. Making breakfast, paying bills, shopping, driving, managing appointments and keeping track of medications are tasks done almost automatically. For most, these routines run smoothly, but for some, small disr…
AI Summary: A study finds that small, progressive difficulties with routine daily tasks can be early indicators of Alzheimer’s disease, preceding obvious cognitive symptoms. Tracking functional changes may enable earlier detection, intervention and planning, shifting attention from memory tests alone to how people manage everyday life — yes, the missing teaspoons matter.
- Everyday task declines: early, subtle signals of pending Alzheimer’s (4)
- Labs and trials wrestle with hopeful but faltering Alzheimer's therapies (3)
- Sleep, blood and life-history markers expose rising dementia risk (4)
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Everyday task declines: early, subtle signals of pending Alzheimer’s
Labs and trials wrestle with hopeful but faltering Alzheimer's therapies
Sleep, blood and life-history markers expose rising dementia risk
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UK government recommends maximum two hours of screen time for younger children: What the evidence says
medicalxpress - New UK government guidance recommends that screen time for children under two should be avoided, except for shared activities such as video calls. For children aged two to five, a maximum of an hour a day is suggested. The guidance also outlines that watc…
AI Summary: The UK government updated child‑health guidance recommending strict limits on young children’s screen time, citing evidence linking excessive use to delayed development and poorer sleep. The guidance urges parents and caregivers to prioritize interactive, non‑screen activities and age‑appropriate limits while acknowledging modern practicalities for families.
Verily raises $300M, sheds Alphabet’s majority control
Shelby Livingston / endpoints - Verily has raised $300 million in new, outside funding that ends parent company Alphabet's controlling position in the healthcare innovation company, Endpoints News has learned exclusively. The funding round was led by Series X Capital ...
AI Summary: Verily secured a $300 million financing round that reduces Alphabet’s majority control, bringing new strategic investors on board including health system partners. The cash infusion aims to accelerate Verily’s healthcare technology and platform ambitions — because nothing says “healthcare disruption” like another well‑funded pivot.
Turquoise Health Snags $40M to Simplify Healthcare Contracts & Payments
Katie Adams / medcitynews - Turquoise Health raised $40 million in a Series C round to expand beyond price transparency into managing healthcare contracts. The startup’s platform aims to simplify payer–provider agreements, reduce administrative waste and enable patients to see guara…
AI Summary: Turquoise Health closed a $40 million funding round to accelerate its platform that standardizes healthcare contracts and payments, aiming to increase price transparency and streamline payer–provider interactions. The cash infusion will support product growth, sales expansion and the company's push to make messy contract data slightly less catastrophic for hospital finance teams.
Lantern Secures $30M to Fuel Growth Across Employers and Health Plans
Marissa Plescia / medcitynews - Lantern’s $30 million raise was led by Morgan Health, a JPMorganChase business unit focused on employer-sponsored healthcare, as well as Echo Health Ventures, a strategic investment platform that invests on behalf of multiple Blues health plans.The post L…
AI Summary: Lantern secured a $30 million investment led by Morgan Health and Echo Health Ventures to scale its employer- and plan-facing digital health platform. The capital will accelerate product development, deepen payer-employer partnerships, and expand deployment of Lantern’s care navigation and benefits tools as it chases broader market traction — because nothing says progress like more tech for paperwork.
Healthcare tech inovation: Lessons from HIMSS 2026
healthcaredive - At HIMSS 2026, AWS took the stage with Jupiter Medical Center and Rady Children's Health. Read the key lessons from last week's Views from the Top Session.
AI Summary: At HIMSS 2026 vendors and health systems traded demos and earnest promises about real‑time data, cloud pathology and tighter interoperability — with AWS onstage alongside Jupiter Medical Center and Rady Children’s. The practical message: better connectivity and identity tools could finally unstick silos — if hospitals can stomach the integration bill.
- EHR rollouts: Epic expansions, VA launches and outages (6)
- HIMSS: Vendors push real-time data, cloud and interoperability (7)
- Interoperability drama: identity gaps, APIs and improper data access (7)
- OTHER: AI, imaging, workforce and operational healthcare stories (23)
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EHR rollouts: Epic expansions, VA launches and outages
HIMSS: Vendors push real-time data, cloud and interoperability
Interoperability drama: identity gaps, APIs and improper data access
OTHER: AI, imaging, workforce and operational healthcare stories
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‘They Need Each Other’: Why Hims & Hers and Novo Nordisk Made Up
Marissa Plescia / medcitynews - Novo Nordisk dropped its lawsuit against Hims & Hers and launched a new collaboration. The deal is advantageous for both companies, experts say.The post ‘They Need Each Other’: Why Hims & Hers and Novo Nordisk Made Up appeared first on MedCity News.
AI Summary: Novo Nordisk has dropped its legal fight with Hims & Hers and struck a business-friendly truce: Hims will sell Novo’s branded weight‑loss medications on its platform. The abrupt move turns courtroom theatrics into commercial collaboration, smoothing distribution while leaving regulators and competitors to enjoy the schadenfreude.
Fitch upgrades UCHealth’s rating to ‘AA+’
Andrew Cass / beckershospitalreview - Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth’s credit rating was upgraded to “AA+” from “AA” by Fitch. The upgrade reflects the health system’s very strong financial profile, benefiting from its market position in a growing service area and a long track record of robust …
AI Summary: A large NHS evaluation found that an AI system can detect more invasive breast cancers than traditional reading alone, boosting detection by roughly 10%. The technology matched or rivaled radiologists in a major screening dataset, prompting debate about integration, workflow changes, and careful real-world rollout rather than unleashing bots in mammography rooms immediately.
- Mixed trial findings: AI triage not always noninferior. (1)
- NHS trial: AI boosts breast cancer detection by ~10%. (2)
- OTHER: AI in broader cardiac, hematology, imaging, and finance news. (4)
- Researchers and conferences push AI discussion in breast imaging. (2)
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Mixed trial findings: AI triage not always noninferior.
NHS trial: AI boosts breast cancer detection by ~10%.
OTHER: AI in broader cardiac, hematology, imaging, and finance news.
Researchers and conferences push AI discussion in breast imaging.
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AMA: Physicians' use of AI doubled from 2023 to 2026
fiercehealthcare - A survey fielded earlier this year found 81% of doctors use AI in a professional context, with an average of 2.3 use cases per physician. Respondents were largely bullish on the technology's ability to boost clinical care and work efficiency, but still ha…
AI Summary: An AMA survey finds physicians’ professional use of artificial intelligence roughly doubled from 2023 to 2026, with about 81% of doctors now using AI across clinical and administrative tasks. The rapid uptake spotlights workflow integration but raises immediate questions about oversight, training, and legal liability as adoption outpaces policy.
A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
newscientist - In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to learn techniques for extending intercourse
AI Summary: A randomized trial shows a smartphone app teaching behavioral and psychological techniques significantly prolonged intercourse and improved sexual satisfaction for men with premature ejaculation. The digital program provided a non‑pharmacologic, scalable alternative to pills, offering clinicians an accessible adjunct or first‑line option for patients keen to try therapy without a prescription.
6 Things to Know About Stryker’s Cyberattack
Katie Adams / medcitynews - Stryker was hit by a cyberattack this week that knocked out its internal systems worldwide and caused delays to order processing and manufacturing. An Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the full impact remains unclear.The pos…
AI Summary: A worldwide cyberattack knocked out Stryker’s enterprise Microsoft environment, wiping access to key internal systems and forcing hospitals and manufacturers to scramble for workarounds. The company is issuing platform‑specific updates while investigators link the intrusion to a pro‑Iran actor, leaving supply chains and surgical workflows nervously improvising.
FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other Regulated Products
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - The FDA said consolidating safety reporting into a single platform, the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), will increase transparency and reduce costs. But like the legacy systems it replaces, AEMS reports are unverified so causation and frequency of…
AI Summary: The FDA is consolidating multiple safety reporting systems into a single public Adverse Event Monitoring System to centralize reports for drugs, biologics, vaccines, cosmetics and animal products. The move aims to improve transparency, reduce fragmented reporting, and streamline monitoring — a tidy solution if it works as promised.
Universal Health Services buys Talkspace for $835M
Ngai Yeung / endpoints - Universal Health Services, which operates hospitals and mental healthcare facilities, is acquiring Talkspace for $835 million in an area closely watched for consolidation, as virtual mental health companies grapple with falling valuations despite high dem…
AI Summary: Universal Health Services agreed to acquire Talkspace for roughly $835 million to bulk up virtual behavioral‑health capabilities and outpatient telehealth services. The deal aims to expand UHS’s behavioral care footprint and diversify revenue streams, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory review — because nothing says mental‑health innovation like a corporate merger.
Telehealth growth hasn’t increased rural behavioral healthcare access: Study
Giles Bruce / beckershospitalreview - The rise in telemedicine over the past several years hasn’t translated to more behavioral healthcare access in rural areas, according to a March 5 study in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Boston-based Harvard Medical School and Providence, R.I.-based …
AI Summary: A new study finds the rapid expansion of telemedicine did not meaningfully improve access to behavioral health services in rural areas. Persistent barriers—workforce shortages, broadband gaps, and reimbursement limits—keep telehealth from being the miracle fix some hoped for. Turns out, high-speed internet isn’t a therapist.
CVS Health, Google Cloud to launch healthcare engagement platform
Naomi Diaz / beckershospitalreview - CVS Health is partnering with Google Cloud to develop an AI-powered consumer engagement platform as part of a broader effort to reshape how patients interact with the healthcare system. In a March 5 news release, the company announced a partnership with G…
AI Summary: CVS Health and Google Cloud are teaming up to build Health100, an AI-driven consumer engagement platform designed to aggregate patient data and surface personalized care recommendations. The collaboration aims to streamline access, coordinate care, and power new digital services—because if your fridge can order milk, it should at least help you book a doctor.
New AI tool predicts best pancreatic cancer treatment
medicalxpress - A new tool co-developed by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University can predict which of two available chemotherapy options for pancreatic cancer would be more effective for an individual patient.
AI Summary: A Cedars‑Sinai–developed AI platform predicts which of two standard chemotherapy regimens will best suit individual pancreatic cancer patients. The model analyzes clinical and molecular data to guide therapy selection, aiming to personalize treatment and improve outcomes in a disease notorious for poor prognosis—because guesswork is overrated when lives are at stake.
AI blood test finds silent liver disease years before symptoms
sciencedaily - Researchers created an AI-driven liquid biopsy that scans patterns in fragments of DNA circulating in the blood. The system detected early liver fibrosis and cirrhosis—conditions that often go unnoticed until serious damage occurs. By analyzing genome-wid…
AI Summary: Researchers unveiled an AI‑driven liquid biopsy that scans genome‑wide cell‑free DNA fragment patterns to flag liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and chronic liver disease well before symptoms appear. Early results indicate the test can identify disease signals years ahead of clinical diagnosis, offering a shot at much earlier intervention — if practice and payers cooperate.
Amazon launches Amazon Connect Health
Naomi Diaz / beckershospitalreview - Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Connect Health, an artificial intelligence tool designed to automate administrative tasks for health systems and improve patient access to care. Here are six things to know about Amazon Connect Health: Amazon Connec…
AI Summary: Amazon Web Services rolled out a suite of agentic AI tools under the Amazon Connect Health name to take on the administrative drudgery of healthcare — scheduling, ambient note‑taking, coding and patient engagement. The platform promises to automate front‑office tasks, generate clinical summaries, and integrate with provider workflows, aiming to free clinicians from endless paperwork.