A design assistant for people with more ideas than artistic chops, a comprehensive agentic productivity suite, a self-driving car you can own, and more.

This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of an electronic chatbot-based cancer risk communication tool on knowledge of cancer risk among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hereditary...

Apple Inc.’s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

This cohort study estimates the prevalence of AI psychosis, characterizes affected patients, and defines the role of conversational AI in documented psychotic episodes.

This Viewpoint proposes voice-first systems as a design hypothesis warranting priority development and evaluation to support mental health care for older adults in Africa.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream in science. Systems such as AlphaFold have already transformed protein-structure prediction, while newer agentic systems can search literatures, generat...

A TikTok user opted to speak in pure gibberish with an AI interviewer, only for it to become unsettlingly irate with him.

As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces.

The need to embed decolonising methodologies in health-care practice has been recognised globally. The term decolonising health, which has become a topic of increasing public and academic discourse si...

The digital determinants of health refer to digitally mediated factors that increasingly shape lifestyle, behaviour, and social connections. Digital devices, infrastructure, and services—ranging from ...

The digital determinants of health are the structural conditions through which digital infrastructures, business models, and design choices shape health outcomes. Yet these determinants remain largely...

Children and adolescents are growing up in a hybrid world in which digital media has become part of the infrastructure of everyday life and a structural determinant of their health. In the second pape...

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access an...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries

Biological aging clocks offer estimations of aging and dementia, yet scalability is limited. We introduce a large-scale, cross-national speech clock derived from 2928 individuals across five Latin Ame...

The pitch and emotional content of your speech are important predictors of accelerated ageing, researchers find.

On 23 September 2026, the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, disclosed that on 18 June 2026 an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, a public ...

In Brent Katz’s short documentary “Josh’s Wedding,” a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building.

This Medical News article discusses how children are using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for emotional support and the challenges of developing evidence and mental health safeguards quickly en...

Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing pose risks to health as well as privacy and call for greater scrutiny of apps Digital menstrual tracking and cycle...

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

Changing habits may be the hardest engineering challenge of all

Changing habits may be the hardest engineering challenge of all

Traditionally, the clinician–scientist has played a key role in translating fundamental discoveries into clinical practice across multiple medical disciplines. As medicine enters the era of artificial...

Tools that inform clinical decision-making require rigorous assessments equivalent to processes used to approve drugs and self-driving cars.

Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the tech used to do it could change conservation and paleontology for good.

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

Uhura Bionics, part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.

Employees may look highly capable even as GenAI use erodes their skills. Here’s how to stop skill atrophy.

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered clinical decision support ​to physicians in regions without access to the te...

Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.

This umbrella review synthesizes and quantifies meta-analytic associations between screen-based media exposure and developmental outcomes among individuals aged 18 years or younger.

This Viewpoint examines the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in pediatric settings and the need for governance structures to address the risk-benefit concerns.

Editor in Chief of JAMA+ AI Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, and Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discuss the role of women physicians in shaping AI’s impact on heal...

Smartglasses, drone deliveries, and AI agents are entering our lives at a rapid pace. Can we keep up with the adoption curve?

This JAMA Forum discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in health care, the need for regulation based on risk, and ways to share responsibility and adapt quickly.

This cohort study examines cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between smartphone ownership and eating disorder symptoms among adolescents aged 12 and 14 years in the US.

This randomized clinical trial investigates the effectiveness and safety of CT-155, a smartphone-based digital therapeutic intervention, as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for negative symptoms of schiz...

A succession of clinical trials is upending the field

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

This diagnostic/prognostic study develops and evaluates a smartphone-based 3-dimensional facial reconstruction system for automated quantitative assessment of blepharoptosis.

JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, and Bon Ku, MD, MPP, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), discuss what it will take to design AI systems that ...

Drawing inspiration from Hilbert’s list of 23 mathematical problems that have focused the mathematical community’s attention for more than a century, we propose fifteen grand AI challenges to focus th...

There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.