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 ...

New Healthcare Protect Brief reveals 13.3 million remote desktop exploitation attempts and more active ransomware families than any other tracked vertical While attack volumes across most verticals ...

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 ...

The codes must be fully implemented in acute care and ambulatory care settings to inform provider and public health responses to xylazine use in the community. In Philadelphia—where we serve in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Vince Lahey of Carefree, Arizona, embraces chatbots. From Big Tech products to “shady” ones, they offer “someone that I could share more secrets with than my therapist.” He especially likes the apps ...