Should We use AI for Therapy in Berlin?
People are turning to AI for mental health support. The article asks whether that is helpful.
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AI & Healthcare — what each story says
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🧘 Mental health4
HKU-Led Study Maps AI's Future in Mental Health Care
Researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) worked with collaborators on an AI Supported Dynamic Clinical State Model.
Read the original →BITS Pilani gives UG students more flexibility with new AI-era curriculum
BITS Pilani has revised its undergraduate curriculum with new subjects, research pathways and experience-based activities. The overhaul responds to artificial intelligence's growing influence and concerns about student mental health.
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- 2026 Medical Innovation Forum Reports Organ Freezing, Preclinical Cancer Therapy and AIBioengineer.org · 10/25 13:38 UTC
🏃 Exercise and activity5
Pro Medicus chief says contract wins show it’s future-fit for AI era
Sam Hupert said hospitals are signing seven-year deals with his software company. This defies fears that artificial intelligence will make it obsolete.
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- AI Health Queries Rise as Exercise Costs FallChosun Ilbo · 10/25 15:41 UTC
- Amazon’s $75 AI wearable hides a bigger $144-a-year betTheStreet · 10/25 17:23 UTC
- Are people relying too heavily on AI to evaluate their fitness, and could wearables be promoting unhealthy eating habits? I spoke to a leading sports dietitian to find outTom's Guide · 10/25 10:30 UTC
- AI Wearables Heat Up: Muse, Bee, Friend Lead New WaveThe Tech Buzz · 10/25 14:35 UTC
😴 Sleep3
The Frenz brainband talks you to sleep with artificial intelligence
The Frenz brainband talks to the wearer as they fall asleep. It connects to a phone and uses AI to curate audio to help them fall asleep faster.
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- Healthcare's Oppenheimer Moment: The AI Inflection Point Healthcare Can't Afford to Sleep OnHospitalogy · 10/24 03:18 UTC
- Apple AI health coach plans: What we know so far.Mashable · 10/24 09:00 UTC
🥗 Nutrition and diet3
Machine Learning Finds Modest Diet Signals in Psoriasis-Anxiety Comorbidity
An explainable machine-learning analysis of NHANES data found only modest, nutrient-level predictive signals for psoriasis comorbidity among adults with anxiety disorder. Niacin was the leading signal.
Read the original →AI, Obesity and Super-Aging... Korean Academy of Family Medicine Fall Conference Concludes Successfully: “Leading Rapidly Changing Primary Care”
The Korean Academy of Family Medicine, chaired by Kim Cheol-min, held its 2026 Fall Conference at the Yeosu Convention Center. The conference ran over two days, on the 24th and 25th.
Read the original →HealthifyMe: Building an AI-Assisted Nutrition and Fitness Platform
HealthifyMe was founded in 2012 by Tushar Vashisht, Sachin Shenoy and Mathew Cherian and offers nutrition and calorie tracking alongside fitness coaching. Its commercial model is freemium. The CEO told reporters in 2018 that the company began monetising through nutritionist and trainer subscriptions about two years earlier, and concluded that much of that work could be done by AI.
Read the original →🩺 Prevention and screening3
AI in healthcare: No matter how good it is at detecting lesions, it still needs verification by doctors.
AI helps detect difficult lesions, aids in diagnosis and drug development. Algorithmic errors can be dangerous if doctors become overly reliant on the technology.
Read the original →AI Can Help Doctors Detect TB and Lung Cancer Earlier: Dr. Randeep Guleria
Artificial intelligence has the potential to significantly improve the early detection of tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer, according to Dr. Randeep Guleria.
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- Where AI could make the biggest impact in medicineLuxembourg Times · 10/25 15:00 UTC
💚 Chronic disease self-management3
Stroke: how much does DNA really influence the risk? Artificial Intelligence will tell us
Prevention is becoming personalised, starting from a young age. An algorithm that combines genetics, lifestyle factors and medical tests will allow ischaemia risk to be assessed more accurately.
Read the original →Gujarat: AI lessons to have real-world test drive
Gujarat plans AI courses with real-world case studies across 8 higher-education tracks. The courses aim to train 5 lakh students, from basic literacy to job-ready skills.
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- 6 in 10 Americans worry about high blood pressure; Pennsylvania sues Character.AI for impersonating a doctor; Ohio physician famous for vaccine magnetism claim ordered to pay $699,000 in back taxes – Morning Medical UpdateMedical Economics · 10/24 18:36 UTC
👵 Ageing and care4
EverNear Develops AI Voice Companion to Support Older Adults Living With Alzheimer's Disease
EverNear was founded by 17-year-old Jaswanth Chintala. It offers AI voice companionship for older adults with Alzheimer's.
Read the original →Flicker Light Test and Machine Learning Estimate Age from Retinal Vessels
A machine learning study reports that dynamic diameter changes of retinal blood vessels during flicker light stimulation can be used to estimate chronological age. The mean absolute error was 9.3.
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- Jensen Huang Says AI Demand Is "Off the Charts." The Money to Pay for It Isn'tYahoo Finance · 10/24 11:27 UTC
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs Get Up To 2X Faster AI Compute Performance With New GPU Unlock Mod, Real-World Gains Of Up To 60%Wccftech · 10/24 14:52 UTC
⚖️ Digital therapeutics and regulation1
Nelson Advisors: The Lower Mid Market Is Where European HealthTech, MedTech and Health AI Value Gets Realised
The most consequential shift in European healthtech over the past three years has happened in the middle of the market, not at the top. The companies changing hands and giving founders their first real liquidity are businesses with $25M to $250M enterprise value. They built revenue and won regulated customers.
Read the original →🏢 Workplace health5
Highlights from Day 3 of HR Tech: Anthropic, Pitchfest and more
The final day also featured a chat from LRS' Robeert Rustman and influencer Joey Price.
Read the original →10 Hot Products Helping MSPs Tackle AI, Security And Automation
Some of the hottest MSP products on display at XChange NexGen 2026 were pitched as ways to monitor, govern and secure customer AI use. Others were pitched as ways to reduce manual tasks for security and legal work.
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- AI could make workplace burnout worseTrinidad Express Newspapers · 10/25 02:09 UTC
- Beyond Automation: The Strategic Ownership Era in the AI EconomyMedium · 10/24 16:08 UTC
- Why Aussie teachers worry about AI in schoolsNine.com.au · 10/24 20:19 UTC
🇯🇵 Japan health and AI3
Surprising finding: AI can detect signs of sudden cardiac death
American scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can detect abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. It is intended to help identify people at risk of sudden cardiac death.
Read the original →US research team develops AI model that estimates cancer patients' life expectancy from a face photo
An artificial intelligence model has been developed that can assess a cancer patient's general health condition and life expectancy from a facial photograph. It is expected to serve as a tool to help doctors judge patients' survival chances and identify the best treatment.
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- AI Ring launched: smart ring analyzes causes of sleep loss and daytime fatigue with AI, scoring sleepCAMPFIRE · 10/25 02:21 UTC
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