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Most wellness apps make no disease claim and face no federal review. Into that gap, US states are writing their own AI-in-mental-health laws — four already diverge, leaving users unevenly protected.
Pooled across 48 trials, chatbots cut depression, anxiety and stress by small amounts. But a review of purpose-built mental health chatbots found crisis-referral protocols underdeveloped and missed suicidal ideation.
GE's Critical Care Suite gains an algorithm that flags misplaced enteric tubes on a chest X-ray — a complication that reviews of the practice have linked to respiratory harm and, in some cases, death.
A content analysis of every FDA cybersecurity safety communication from 2013 to 2025 finds a small corpus, rising over time, and 94% of the flagged vulnerabilities rated severe.
A 1,298-person randomized study found people using chatbots to work through medical scenarios did no better than people without them — even though the same chatbots, tested alone, got the right answer most of the time.
Researchers ran 960 responses through ChatGPT Health using clinician-written vignettes. Failures clustered at both extremes, and crisis safeguards activated unpredictably.
The landmark audit found the right diagnosis listed first in 34% of cases and correct triage in 57%. A newer heart-attack test exposes the dangerous edge: most atypical cases missed, and women.