Healthcare Innovation

How AI will make behavioral health more human in 2026

Perspective: Kaia Flux

While headlines about AI replacing workers dominated 2025, behavioral health is charting a different path. Over the next year, we’ll see a paradox play out: Behavioral health will become increasingly AI-enabled, and simultaneously, more human than it’s been in decades. The reason is simple. Burnout and administrative burdens have been increasingly limiting what clinicians can do. Providers must spend hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and data entry instead of with patients. AI built to reduce that friction can return clinicians to the work that drew them here in the first place: showing up fully for the people they serve. Here are the five ways I believe we’ll see AI reshape behavioral hea

A Pill Version of Wegovy Hits Pharmacies

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

The arrival of a pill version of Wegovy marks a new phase in weight-loss drugs.

U.S. regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.

The Science That Will Shape 2026

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

Despite everything, science goes on. Scientists had a tough year in 2025. Administrative decisions and stupidity cast doubt on the future of key science projects and organizations. Experts from all disciplines still arrived with impactful science. Credibility took a hit, primarily through mismanagement, and misinformation.

Eric Topol Hopes So

Perspective: Kaia Flux

The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine.