Healthcare AI: Google launched Gemini for Healthcare, which can summarize records, check coverage and prepare prior authorizations. Hospitals hope it can reduce administrative waste and costs, though its impact remains to be seen. A separate $12.5 million startup round will fund tools to test medical AI against clinician-designed tasks. Global Health Data: WHO found that African countries have improved health data collection but still lack the financing, governance and analytical capacity to turn information into better services. The 52-country assessment scored the region’s health information systems 59 out of 100. Medicine Access: Health advocates warn that pharma’s focus on lucrative weight-loss drugs could divert attention from insulin, which remains out of reach for many people with diabetes, especially in lower-income countries. Mental Health: UCLA and Amwell will study digital cognitive behavioral therapy to help veterans and transitioning service members access depression care, including in rural areas. Health Equity: Boehringer Ingelheim rose to sixth in the Access to Medicine Index, reflecting efforts to improve care and medicine availability in lower- and middle-income countries.