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Matternet has launched commercial drone deliveries between two Central London NHS hospital campuses, marking its UK debut and the first urban deployment of an FAA Type-Certified delivery aircraft on British airspace.

UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors the insurer will spend roughly $1.5 billion on AI in 2026, with a target of 2:1 returns, even as the STAT+ investigation puts the total bet at $3 billion and questions what the shift means for patients.

After FDA 510(k) clearance in December and a 45,000-patient global milestone in March, the Cambridge-based surgical robotics company begins placing its modular, lower-cost Versius Plus system in US hospitals.

The Danish pharmaceutical giant will integrate OpenAI's frontier models across R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain, with full deployment targeted by year-end.

A JAMA Network Open study using the new PrIME-LLM framework finds top AI models excel at final diagnoses with full data but collapse on differential diagnosis when patient information is incomplete.

Novo Nordisk's Awiqli reduces basal insulin injections from 365 to 52 per year, winning FDA approval after a 2024 rejection over manufacturing and safety concerns.

Attackers stole 15.8 million patient files, including doctors' notes with HIV status and sexual orientation, from a French health-tech vendor already fined for mishandling medical data.

ARPA-H has awarded up to $176.8 million to five teams building 3D-bioprinted kidneys and livers designed to work without immunosuppressive drugs, targeting first-in-human trials within five years.

Pro-Iran hacktivist group Handala hijacked Stryker's Microsoft Intune tenant to remotely wipe over 200,000 systems across 79 countries, crippling the medical device giant and threatening global hospital supply chains.

Professor Prokar Dasgupta operated a robotic system from The London Clinic to remove a prostate in Gibraltar with only 60 milliseconds of latency, marking the UK's first telesurgery and Europe's longest-distance remote operation.

A ransomware attack on government services giant Conduent exposed SSNs, medical records, and health insurance data for at least 25 million Americans across multiple states.