Digital health tools have earned their permanent residency in healthcare. Most hospitals today offer patient-facing applications — and roughly two-thirds of US patients have accessed a health portal at least once. Yet more than 95% use it passively – checking notifications, but never initiating contact with the service. Is bad user experience to blame? Which engagement tactics are even ethically acceptable in healthcare?
Utah is the first state in the US to introduce an age verification law aimed squarely at VPN users. Experts warn the legislation could force website owners to enact blanket bans on virtual private networks or impose a global ID requirement.
Medicine is one of the most promising fields where AI is already delivering remarkable results — in radiology, for instance, or during patient intake. At the same time, medicine is a quantitative science built on protocols and strict, evidence-backed rules. So the temptation to train AI to think like a doctor — and eventually replace one is understandable. But how feasible is that?
What сan doctors offer? What can doctors help you with? What are they ready to prescribe? Pills, injections, surgical operations, and… a mobile app. And no, these aren’t the countless fitness apps for tracking steps or sleep movements. These are genuine digital medicine products whose effectiveness in treating a range of disorders is already considered proven.
Over the past year, the healthtech market has grown noticeably more demanding toward products tied to nutrition, disease prevention, and digital user support. According to Rock Health, American digital health startups raised $14.2 billion in 2025 — but the money is being distributed with growing inequality: the number of deals has declined while the average check has grown, as capital concentrated in the hands of fewer companies. Investors have become markedly more selective toward startups.
The government in Athens has announced plans to block access to platforms like TikTok and Instagram for anyone under 15. The Greek prime minister attributes the decision to rising sleep disorders and anxiety among teenagers. Similar steps have long been underway across various US states, where rolling out restrictions continues to face fierce legal pushback rooted in the Constitution.
A Los Angeles jury found that Meta and YouTube knowingly built addictive platforms. The companies have been ordered to pay $6 million to a young woman.
Aging and death have long been topics that only philosophers, hypochondriacs, and charlatans were happy to dwell on. But in recent years, this eternal yet unwelcomed subject has drawn growing interest from scientists and business figures alike — driven, above all, by the rise of AI, which has called into question the assumption that aging, as we know it, is simply the natural order of things. Aging is now understood as a set of measurable processes: the accumulation of cellular damage, regulatory failures, and the gradual erosion of the body’s systemic resilience. And if that’s the case, it can be significantly slowed down.
An artificial intelligence system described in a study published in Nature Medicine outperformed human therapists in tests of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). According to expert evaluations, as many as 74.3% of AI-led sessions were rated higher than the top 10% of sessions conducted by human therapists.
Widespread use of chatbots based on large language models may lead to the standardization of human expression and reasoning. These conclusions were presented by computer scientists and psychologists in an article published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.