Google Expands AI in Healthcare with Search, Drug Discovery, and Personalized Medicine Tools
At its 2025 'The Check Up' event, Google introduced advancements in AI-powered health search, drug discovery models, and tools for pediatric cancer treatment.
- Google expanded AI Overviews in Search to cover thousands more health topics and added support for Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese on mobile devices.
- A new 'What People Suggest' feature organizes health-related online discussions into themes, offering insights from individuals with similar conditions.
- The Pixel Watch 3's FDA-cleared Loss of Pulse Detection feature, which can automatically call emergency services, will launch in the U.S. by the end of March.
- TxGemma, a new collection of AI models, aims to streamline early drug discovery by analyzing therapeutic entities like molecules and proteins.
- Google is collaborating with the Princess Máxima Center to develop Capricorn, an AI tool that identifies personalized cancer treatments for pediatric patients.