Why millions of teens trust chatbots over therapists
An invisible shift in youth mental health is happening under the radar of parents and clinicians alike.
September 1, 2026
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Hospital coding misses half of addiction cases
Standard hospital coding misses over half of emergency cases involving drugs, alcohol, and self-harm, but a local AI model can find them.
September 1, 2026
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist initiation and risk of clinically recorded Alzheimer’s disease-type dementia in older adults with type 2 diabetes: a target trial emulation using causal machine learning
New data suggests popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs might buy older patients a few precious months of cognitive health, but only if doctors target the right individuals.
August 30, 2026
AI Chatbots Are Training on Real Therapy Sessions
Virtual mental health platforms are racing to deploy AI chatbots trained on real clinical conversations, forcing a high-stakes experiment on vulnerable patients.
August 30, 2026
AI screens 200,000 medical papers for pennies
A new AI screening agent slashed the workload of medical meta-analyses by over 99 percent, proving that algorithms can find needle-in-a-haystack medical studies faster and cheaper than humans.
August 30, 2026
Why Payers Are Funding Behavioral AI
A massive chunk of mental health data is currently invisible to the insurers who pay for care.
August 27, 2026
The High Cost of Insurance Covered Therapy
Digital health giants are discovering that giving consumers what they want—insurance-covered therapy—might actually break their business models.
August 26, 2026
Sword Health moves to buy Headspace
A major digital health player is trying to buy its way to an IPO by merging physical and mental care.
August 25, 2026
Large Language Models Generate Stigmatizing Language During Reasoning Over Real-World Clinical Data
Large language models trained to think through clinical decisions are actively generating and amplifying biased language that could compromise patient care.
August 25, 2026
Clinical knowledge graphs tame rogue therapy chatbots
By chaining generative AI to a rigid clinical knowledge graph, researchers have built a digital counselor that actually follows the rules.
August 23, 2026