Responding to a massive and deeply ingrained user trend that has been quietly unfolding for years, OpenAI has officially announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, a specialized AI platform designed to empower individuals in managing their personal health journey. The announcement, dated January 7,
In a significant policy shift that reverberated through the technology and healthcare sectors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has substantially redefined its approach to regulating the burgeoning market of digital health tools. The updates, implemented on January 6, clarify the boundaries
With a career spanning decades at the intersection of medical technology and finance, James Maitland has a unique vantage point on the forces shaping the industry. After a turbulent 2025 that saw medtech navigate trade wars and policy shifts, the sector proved its resilience with strong procedure
A critical new proposal suggests that a key solution to the chronic overcrowding plaguing Australia's public hospitals lies not in building more wards, but in fundamentally rethinking how the nation cares for its most vulnerable at the end of life. In its 2026 Budget Submission, Palliative Care
A routine visit for a new pair of glasses or a preventative screening can take an unexpected turn when the intake form or a clinician begins asking about ethnicity, marital status, or housing stability. For many, these questions feel deeply personal and irrelevant to the immediate medical issue,
The advent of targeted radiopharmaceutical therapies like (177Lu)Lu-PSMA-617 has offered a significant new weapon in the fight against metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but predicting which patients will benefit most versus those who will suffer severe side effects remains a
The modern healthcare journey often begins not with a conversation but with a labyrinthine series of digital portals and automated phone trees, a reality that new AI aims to dismantle completely. For millions, managing health has become a second job defined by administrative burdens. In response, a
The subtle, steady hum of an autonomous surgical arm making an incision with microscopic precision is no longer the stuff of science fiction; it is a tangible reality reshaping industries at their core. A profound and accelerating convergence of artificial intelligence and robotics is ushering in a
A groundbreaking diagnostic technology now offers the ability to detect and begin curing hepatitis C within a single hour, yet this powerful tool remains largely out of reach due to a formidable financial barrier, creating a frustrating paradox where a cure exists but the path to identifying those
In courtrooms and at border crossings worldwide, determining an individual's true chronological age can be a pivotal factor that alters the course of a life, yet the methods used have long been fraught with significant ethical and medical concerns. A pioneering study from Ottow and colleagues
